Introduction
Caitlin Rose (born June 23, 1987) is a country singer from Nashville, Tennessee.
Career
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.
Discography
Albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Heat | ||
| Dead Flowers |
| — | — |
| Own Side Now |
| — | — |
| The Stand-In |
| 42 | 29 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Track listings
- Dead Flowers; EP, 2008
- Shotgun Wedding
- Answer in One of These Bottles
- Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray
- Docket
- Gorilla Man
- Dead Flowers
- T-shirt
- Own Side Now; album, 2010
- Learning to Ride
- Own Side
- For the Rabbits
- Shanghai Cigarettes
- New York
- Spare Me (Fetzer's Blues)
- Things Change
- That's Alright
- Sinful Wishing Well
- Coming Up
- Piledriver Waltz; 7", 2012 (covers of two Arctic Monkeys songs, limited edition vinyl release for Record Store Day 2012)
- Piledriver Waltz
- Love Is A Laserquest
- The Stand-In; album, February 25, 2013
- "No One to Call"
- "I Was Cruel"
- "Waitin'"
- "Only a Clown"
- "Dallas"
- "Pink Champagne"
- "Golden Boy"
- "Silver Sings"
- "Everywhere I Go"
- "When I'm Gone"
- "Menagerie"
- "Old Numbers"
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | "Only a Clown" | Michael Carter |
Personal life
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.