I packed a swimsuit, sunscreen, aloe vera. STEREOGUM: So I understand it’s absurdly and unusually cold in New Orleans today?ĬAROLINE ROSE: (Laughs) Yeah, it’s like really brutal. Rose is a fascinating person, and from DIY production trickery to her multi-role star turns in her videos, LONER represents her at her best. To wit, when we spoke about the album last week, our conversation touched upon “Billie Jean,” Black Mirror, and Big Thief among other pop-cultural landmarks. To hear Rose tell it, her evolution has not been so radical, yet she concedes LONER is the first album to feel fully true to herself and the multitudes she contains. “I got soul!” she intones, and, well, yeah - that and then some. 5,” a playful commentary on catcalling with a surging guitar-powered chorus buoyed by a rising tide of Farfisa organ. Consider the rockabilly-infused anti-capitalist blitzkrieg “Money” or the album’s newly released second single “Soul No. It’s like she’s become a different artist during the four-year interim between albums. On LONER, Rose’s sound has expanded in a zillion directions, each track bursting with ideas and personality. She was compelling and full of potential, but her old work can’t help but seem minor compared to the album she’s about to release. Back then New York-based Rose was a full-fledged roots-rocker whose music you might describe as “Americana” or “alt-country,” her distinct point of view communicated through incisive, thoughtful lyrics and some signature music videos. It’s slightly ironic that Caroline Rose’s new album LONER begins with a song called “More Of The Same.” If you’re familiar with her last album, 2014’s I Will Not Be Afraid, what will instantly register is how much has changed. Copyright 2017 Sing the Story Music.Stereogum Artist to Watch: Caroline Rose! Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP). My child, my child I’ll run out to meet youĬome into my house What’s lost can be foundĪll I have is yours Don’t stand outside my doorīut you love that wayward son Oh but look at what I’ve doneĪll of those rules that you keep or you break Well I can hear your voice Call for your little boyīut you were more of a means than a Father We don’t need you Jesus, we’re well and we’re good You saved all the others, but can’t save yourself? We keep our religion, but whitewash our sinĪnd what kind of God would hang on a treeĭespised and rejected and nailed to the wood Who calls us unclean, like tombs full of bones Oh who is this man who won't cast a stone Who is this man who sits with the sinners Words and music by Caroline Cobb (ASCAP).Ĭopyright 2017 Sing the Story Music. Spirit with us til we sing this song again Started February 2012, Finished October 2016. Gen. I see the sun risin’ I see the sun risin’ Written August-October 2016 for Hope Mommies Retreat . You feel eternity, And it’s beating in your chestįULLNESS OF JOY (FEAT. If there is hunger, There must be fullness! If there is restlessness, There must be rest! If there is hunger, Could there be fullness? If there is restlessness, Could there be rest? So you know in your soul it’s not all meaninglessĪnd you know it when you see it ‘Cause it echoes the LightĪnd in the end the beholder just changes his mind You can chase every pleasure around every bend Wisdom is good, it puts eyes in your headīut it’s foolish to think it’ll save you from deathīoth the fool and the wise man are numbering their breathsĪnd in the end, all this wisdom is just meaninglessīut with all your indulgence, you can’t get enough Tempo: 72 bpm. Written March 2011, Finished October 2015. Now we are bound for God’s good Land! (He has made a way)ĪLL IS VANITY (FEAT. He reached on down and delivered me! (He has made a way) Lift your voice when you reach the shore! The shroud will lift, our tears he’ll dry Of that richest food, oh that well-aged wine Oh the peace when you finally yield your fightĬome to the mountain, He carries the cripple to the feastĬome to the table, come sit, He has saved you a seatĬome and eat and drink without money and without a cost There is a glory that you get when give up your name There is a victory only the conquered gain There is a mountain only the lame can climb
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