«Back After growing up in Memphis Tennessee, Rose now writes and performs out of Chicago Illinois. Her motivation for songwriting is nurtured by memories of growing up in the Midsouth, where stories are painted with muddy water tides and oil stained towns. Those landscapes of comfort and restlessness still color her songs with quiet meditation and resounding discontent. · The blues laden folk of Memphis is the ground upon which Joni Mitchell and Ann Wilson (Heart) would have met to produce a sound as unique as this. Rose's music is born from her banjo playing father's record collection of the 1950s being dissolved into her own of the hard rock '70s. However, the classical guitar training on small hands and jazz training when it wasn't cool gave way to raptures of Lynard Skynard and Foghat. · Now, somehow, Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt) and Maynard James Keenen (Tool, A Perfect Circle) coexist in a laboratory stocked with samples of Led Zepplin and the Allman Brothers. Patti Smith and Tori Amos provide a continued influence on the inward and outward looking vistas of her songs, while the literal honesty of Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris lend an influence of simple sincerity. · Rose's roots of Louisianna, Arkansas, Tennessee, and New Jersey are cultivated alongside the well traveled backroads of whatever can be defined as home. Call it folk, blues, country, rock — however labeled, it's a labor of love for Rose and it shows. · After 20+ years of writing and performing, Rose has found a partner in crime. Her husband has given up the ghosts of his punk rock/heavy metal dream bands, bought a steel resonator guitar, and joined in as Sweet Rye — certainly keep an ear tuned for the Les Paul in the future. Ocassionally, the Sweet Rye line-up is backed with Alexander's percussion and soon we hope to add Bob's stand-up bass. Keep checking the site for performance dates — you never know who'll be joining in.     «Back