Her artistic approach garnered international buzz, but had few analogues at the time, which meant that she was perpetually asked to explain what she was up to and where it fit. 'I'm not a serious person,' Rose says by way of explanation at a neighborhood pub that she frequents in Nashville, on a mild enough November afternoon that she's removed the medical boot from her still-healing broken foot, 'but I do take the craft really seriously.'

To her, there was nothing at all contradictory about swirling those sensibilities together. Toward the end of the 2000s, she emerged from the close-knit informality of Nashville's DIY circles with a grasp of sturdy, classic country, pop and soft-rock song structures alongside an affinity for the casual irreverence and obliqueness of anti-folk and indie rock. Though her father was an industry exec and her mother a notable Music Row songwriter, she kept her musical ventures to herself in her teens.

That's also a fairly accurate summation of Rose's standing as an artist back in those days. ' 'Cause I don't wanna go it alone.' But solitude was exactly what her protagonist seemed to be steeling herself for by the song's end: 'I'm on my own side now.' 'Who's gonna take me home?' she fretted with crystalline melancholy. On CAZIMI, Caitlin Rose's first new album in nine years, the songwriter has found new ways to add to her music's depth and dimension.Ī dozen or so years ago, the title track of Caitlin Rose's debut album Own Side Now found her torn between craving company and resolving to follow her own whims.

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