| Rosie
Thomas
Genre: Folk
Location: Seattle, Washington
What's the world coming to? First the Indie-Rockers
at Matador Records start hawking electronica; now
the grunge-farmers at Sub Pop are issuing folk records.
No complaints though, when they're this appealing.
Thomas is a moonlighting comic with an earth-angel
voice who channels fragile melismas through heartachey
tales sketched with acoustic guitars and pianos. Sometimes
poignant, always pretty, the songs show little evidence
of her day job. But as tears of a clown go, it's moving
stuff. B+ —Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly
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Rosie Thomas is an old-fashioned folksinger from
Seattle (via Detroit) whose debut album, When We Were
Small (Subpop, 2001), is a collection of intimate
songs in the tradition of Joni Mitchell's austere
contralto and somber confessions. Thomas is never
predictable, never trivial, never superficial, and
occasionally great (the melodious Arlo Guthrie-esque
Two Dollar Shoes, the heartbreaking meditation of
Wedding Day, the tragic, quasi-Celtic hymn of Run,
the nostalgic cello and piano lied Bicycle Tricycle)
but would probably benefit from more developed arrangements.
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