"I don't want to wait around for you / I don't want to wait around for you / I trace my fingers up and down your back...."
The evocative swaying bass and drums amble, the alt country sunset noir of the bending pedal steel guitar, the gallop of the the acoustic guitar and other romantic folk Americana atmospheres of "The Drifter" by L.A. based Emily Rose & The Rounders feels appropriate and engaging like true stories from a 60's dime store novel. You can call it shit-kicker blues or Western noir but with Rose's vocal countenance (that feels drawn with a self deprecating lilt more than a classic Southern drawl) this all feels wonderfully self aware. Like she and The Rounder's embrace of this genre is built on artful painted wooden blocks of other genres.
Loving the sensibility here, nothing feels over the top, just real and ready like the Official Video as wonderfully directed by Matt Yoka feels like a mini-movie with surprising glimpses and more.
This track is from Emily Rose & the Rounders brand new double-single, "The Drifter" / "Nowhere to Go Part 1."
This track is from Emily Rose & the Rounders brand new double-single, "The Drifter" / "Nowhere to Go Part 1."
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Emily Rose & the Rounders are a traditional country outfit from Los Angeles, California. After the dissolution of several other country projects, Emily Rose took the reigns and formed her own band in 2017 which was formerly called the Blue Rose Rounders and is now the Rounders as we know it. They made a self-titled record which came out on Mock Records in 2022 which featured Nicholas Merz on pedal steel and former drummer Jordan Edwards, who passed away tragically in 2021. The record featured many old songs from Emily Rose’s catalog, touching on grief, regret, lost love, (all) female empowerment, nihilism and trying to find power, joy and sometimes humor in times of darkness. The record was only partially done when Edwards passed away, so it was important to the band to finish it and preserve the memory of his time in the band and in their lives. The current incarnation of the band consists of Emily Rose Epstein, who writes the songs, sings and plays guitar and her old friends Vincent Bury, the lead guitar player, bass player David Fox, drummer Brice Bradley and pedal steel player Olaf Selland. The Rounders serve up country music in the tradition of George Jones, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings and Webb Pierce without looking too far into the past for inspiration. They are not a throwback band, they are a band that has steeped themselves in the tradition of those that came before them and strive to make the kind of country music that has lifted them up and inspired them.
Emily Rose & The Rounders, indie rock, garden rock, folk rock, folk indie, alt country, shit kicker blues, Western noir, Los Angeles folk rock band, Official Video directed by Matt Yoka,
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Emily Rose & the Rounders are a traditional country outfit from Los Angeles, California. After the dissolution of several other country projects, Emily Rose took the reigns and formed her own band in 2017 which was formerly called the Blue Rose Rounders and is now the Rounders as we know it. They made a self-titled record which came out on Mock Records in 2022 which featured Nicholas Merz on pedal steel and former drummer Jordan Edwards, who passed away tragically in 2021. The record featured many old songs from Emily Rose’s catalog, touching on grief, regret, lost love, (all) female empowerment, nihilism and trying to find power, joy and sometimes humor in times of darkness. The record was only partially done when Edwards passed away, so it was important to the band to finish it and preserve the memory of his time in the band and in their lives. The current incarnation of the band consists of Emily Rose Epstein, who writes the songs, sings and plays guitar and her old friends Vincent Bury, the lead guitar player, bass player David Fox, drummer Brice Bradley and pedal steel player Olaf Selland. The Rounders serve up country music in the tradition of George Jones, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings and Webb Pierce without looking too far into the past for inspiration. They are not a throwback band, they are a band that has steeped themselves in the tradition of those that came before them and strive to make the kind of country music that has lifted them up and inspired them.
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