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Caitlin Rose's inspirations, from Gram Parsons to Bonnie Raitt to Linda Ronstadt, belied her late-80s birth. The offbeat Nashville, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter and guitarist debuted in February 2008 on the Theory 8 label with the Dead Flowers EP, its title track a Rolling Stones cover with a pleading touch, laced with pedal steel guitar. Five months later, the limited Gorilla Man, pressed on 300 copies of 7 vinyl, featured re-recordings. Her debut album, Own Side Now, followed in August 2010. It was issued on Names, the label that had issued Dead Flowers in the U.K., and reissued in 2011 following her decision to sign with ATO. The assured and impressive The Stand-In appeared early in 2013.
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Caitlin Rose (born June 23, 1987) is a country singer from Nashville, Tennessee.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).
Career[edit]
Rose was previously the lead singer of Nashville indie band Save Macaulay, on local label Theory 8 until 2007. As a solo artist, she signed to BMI in 2008. The title track of her seven-track 2008 EP, Dead Flowers, is a cover of a Rolling Stones song.
Her first album, Own Side Now, was released by Names Records in August 2010. Her vocal performance and lyrics have led to comparisons to Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Iris DeMent. Claire Suddath of Time magazine named Own Side Now one of the Top 10 Albums of 2011, ranking it at No. 7.
Her studio album, The Stand-In, was released on February 25, 2013.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).
Personal life[edit]
Rose's mother is country songwriter Liz Rose (who shares a Grammy for writing with Taylor Swift), and her father Johnny B Rose works in sales and marketing in country music. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and her family moved to Nashville when she was seven. She attended community college in Nashville for a year before leaving to focus on music, initially punk rock.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).
