Shows

30 Nov - 05 Dec // Caitlin Rose in the UK Mon 30th November 2009 November 30th The Social W1, 10pm December 1st The Betsy Trotwood EC1 9.30pm December 2nd The Hope, Brighton 8.30pm December 3rd The Windmill, SW2 8pm December 4th Big Chill House, N1 9.30pm December 5th The Windmill, SW2 9pm

Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee is something of a burden, when you’re a country singer. But 22 year old Caitlin Rose is no ordinary country singer.  Blessed with a startling, precocious native talent, a silvery, bell-clear, brilliant voice and crucially, an undeniable charisma along with defiant songwriting style all her own, Caitlin Rose draws to mind the pure country pop of Jenny Lewis, the early folk experiments of Beck and the sheer cheek of Moldy Peaches, underlying a gigantic vocal talent scaling the heights of Neko Case alongside her obvious adoration of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris and Patsy Cline.

Nashville Cream (part of Nashville Scene) could hardly hide its amazement at a live show:

“1. Rose actually managed to get the crowd to sing along. (This is Nashville! She was the opener!! These people weren't even drunk yet!!!) A sizable portion of the early-arriving attendees joined the songstress for the chorus of ‘Answer in One of These Bottles’, and they sounded pretty decent doing it.

2. That girl can sing. Like really sing. It was on the slower numbers that her vocal prowess really shone. She has that tone, that dynamism, that certain je ne sais quoi that many of this year’s American Idol contestants would kill for.

3. You can't teach charisma. This young lady's humility and quirkiness is undeniably alluring – it was especially cute when she took off her hat for the sad ones.”

 

A precursor to a full length album due later in 2010, ‘Dead Flowers’ is a distilled taste of Caitlin Rose. As she explains simply; “I wanted to sing my guts out.” With the help of Andy Wilkins on pedal steel guitar, Zach Serchfield on guitar, Bob Grant on mandolin, and Travis Collingsworth on bass, Rose does exactly that.

Her two cover versions are the title track, The Rolling Stones ‘Dead Flowers’ turned into a forlorn, pedal-steel infused ballad and an elegant, torch song take on Patsy Cline’s ‘Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray’.  Elsewhere we find bare knuckled honky-tonk on the teenage pregnancy tale ‘Shotgun Wedding’, tambourine-led acapella on the ever-so-sassy ‘Gorilla Man’, while on the lovelorn lament ‘T-Shirt’, Caitlin shows a songwriting ability well beyond her years.

 

Having played across the US with the likes of Phosphoresent, Herman Dune, Bill Callahan, J. Tillman, Akron Family and Cortney Tidwell, Caitlin Rose makes her live debut in the UK this December (see below for dates).

 

Let Rock n Roll’s tambourine toting little sister into your heart. 

 

UK Dates:
November 30th The Social W1, 10pm

December 1st The Betsy Trotwood EC1 9.30pm

December 2nd The Hope, Brighton 8.30pm            

December 3rd The Windmill, SW2 8pm

December 4th Big Chill House, N1 9.30pm

December 5th The Windmill, SW2  9pm