4/20 release
New Dirty Rotten Viper song, Hecate, on debut release “Tip The Band”
written by Johanna Rose
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Unconfined by genre or medium, Johanna Rose is an Artist, Musician, and Street Poet based in New Orleans. Her music floats like a hummingbird through the spaces between Jazz, Folk, Country, and Punk, drinking from each, but possessed by none. A songwriter and bandleader as well as an accomplished instrumentalist, she can often be found in the French Quarter on the corner of Royal and St. Peter playing with the gutter jazz band, The Dirty Rotten Vipers.
can’t love you from the ground 10/7/22
Johanna Rose releases a 5 track EP, can’t love you from the ground, an American folk-inspired ode to their life in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
When the loons leave the lake and the world freezes over, all you’re left with is hard work, hopes and dreams. With these companions, in their little house on the side of the mountain, Rose huddled around the wood stove with their guitar and began drafting the songs in can’t love you from the ground. Rose explores the heights and gullies of surviving a disparate late capitalist world, in arguably one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Like the late, great, Blaze Foley, Rose lives in a treehouse, where they wrote and largely recorded the EP. Living in a treehouse is not just a realized childhood dream, but a necessity in a state that, like many, faces a severe housing shortage. Rose started building the treehouse in 2020 when their life as a touring musician with Nickel&Rose came to a screeching halt, but it wasn’t until late 2021 that they braved their first winter in the treehouse and can’t love you from the ground was unearthed.
“Anyone who enjoys delving into, as Greil Marcus called it, old weird America, would be well advised to have a listen to this five song EP from Johanna Rose which is rooted in the dirt and air which swirls around the foundations of what we call Americana. The songs sound as old as the hills with resonator guitar and plaintive pedal steel adding to the patina yet they come across as fresh as a daisy.”
- Paul Kerr, Americana UK
Johanna Rose
Johanna Rose got their start in folk music as a teenager playing upright bass under bridges with wayfarers. Gathered around the fire, below the pandemonious city, Rose learned many traditional folk tunes from the train hopper circuit that stopped off in their hometown, Milwaukee, WI.
Since, Rose has been on a decade-long musical escapade. From a stint immediately following highschool in Portland’s underground scene, to basement shows with Milwaukee-based art punk band, New Boyz Club, to international touring with their formative Americana duo project, Nickel&Rose, Rose has never stopped playing. All these projects rest on a backdrop of years of busking with the people Rose met throughout their travels.
It wasn’t until recently, however, that Johanna Rose began to release music under their own name. In 2020, Rose put out a few bootleg mixtapes of voice memos and garage band tracks followed by an album in 2021, Lunar Eclipse, a shadowy self-recorded heartbreak compilation filled with electric guitar, found instruments and a gregorian chorus of oohs and ahhs. Can’t love you from the ground, feels less like a follow up to Lunar Eclipse, and more like abeckoning to the bridge days around the fire of their youth, an earnest embodiment of the American folk song.
LOVING YOU
Video shot and edited by Johanna Rose, animated lyrics by Cheston VanHuss with special thanks to Samer Ghani
