Caitlin Rose - Own Side

Caitlin Rose rounds off the perfect year with her highly acclaimed debut album at number 4 in Rough Trade’s Album’s of the Year, while also hitting the Sunday Times number 3 best newcomer of 2010 list and being voted Album of the Year at the Nashville Scene newspaper (quite a feat given her album doesn’t drop stateside until March 2011!). Released in August to much excitement, Own Side Now also achieved ‘Albums of the Week’ in The Sunday Times, The Independent, Independent on Sunday and The Evening Standard. Having done sessions all over the BBC for the likes of Lauren Laverne, Marc Riley, Bob Harris and Radcliffe & Maconie, Caitlin will be back on the airwaves in February performing a live performance for Loose Ends. She also gave a sterling debut UK TV performance on BBC2's The Late Review recently.
Having just completed a headline sold out Twisted Folk UK tour this month to a plethora of freshly adoring fans, she is witty, charismatic and her voice will pierce the coldest of hearts. The Independent and The Guardian both scored her performance at The Slaughtered Lamb 4/5, with the latter referring to her as a “rare and prodigious talent”.
New single ‘Own Side Now’ mirrors Caitlin’s wish that “simple songs needing simple sounds” and the avoidance of “Broadway bullshit”. From its humble acoustic openings it morphs into a majestic soulful gem, with wonderful fragments of tear jerking backing vocals interspersed with a subtle blend of piano and pedal steel. “I’m on my own side now… Who's gonna take me home? / Cause I don't wanna go it alone / Who's gonna want me when / I'm just somewhere you've been?” Everyone, it would seem, after hearing this particular tune. It comes backed by a cover version of ‘You Are My Sunshine’ and album favourite ‘For the Rabbits’ lifted from a Mark Riley 6 Music session.

TRACKLISTING:

1 Own Side, 2 You Are My Sunshine, 3 For The Rabbits,

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