Rose City Band just released a single from their upcoming album being released in May. Digging the new tune and just preordered the record.
For anyone unfamiliar, I thoroughly enjoyed their self titled release last year. Know I mentioned on the old bort but will repost here. Rose City is a Portland based project of Wooden Shjips/Moon Duo guitarist, Ripley Johnson. Self described as a “psychedelic country jam band” their self titled debut is a “mellow mix of hazy, textural space rock and Grateful Dead-indebted cosmic country.”
I don’t believe they have ever played a live show. At first it was kind of a secret/anonymous project for Ripley Johnson. Then he tied his name to Rose City as the producer of the band’s first release and later it was also revealed that Ripley was actually responsible for the large majority of vocals/instruments on the album with a rotating cast of friends filling in the gaps. Knowing all of this I’m not sure if Ripley ever intends on touring or playing shows… but I’d certainly be extremely interested if they do.
This album has got a couple of gems on it. really interesting production throughout the entire thing. If you dont feel like listening to the whole things, listen to these tracks:
Their debut was so good, but the original lead singer/main songwriter quit and the second album kind of sucked, so I stopped paying attention to them. Just gave that track a spin and it’s definitely good. If you dig As I Walk Away, you’ll like the s/t a lot. I think the second album was a lot slower and just seemed to drag on forever. I’m gonna give it a relisten now, why TF not.
Anyone ever get into Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever? A few of their songs have popped up on my Spotify Discover lists over the years. Running through their complete playlist this morning and really enjoying it.
