Eileen Rose
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Eileen Rose is an American singer-songwriter
who is known for her eclectic Americana music. She has released five solo studio albums and toured Europe and the US extensively with her band The Holy Wreck. She is also a member of the band The Silver Threads.
suburb of Saugus
, Massachusetts
, Rose grew up in a close-knit Italian-Irish American family with five older sisters and three brothers. She started writing songs as a teenager and taught herself to read music and play the guitar. Waitressing to put herself through college, Rose began to study criminal law, but gave it up to begin performing on the local Boston music scene. She released a self-funded folk album and fronted the indie-rock bands Daisy Chain, Medici Slot Machine and then Fledgling.
label and released one self-titled album in 1995, before disbanding. The Fledgling song "August" featured on the soundtrack of the Sandra Bullock / Denis Leary movie Two If By Sea
.
When Fledgling split, Rose moved into an old cottage on a dairy farm in Essex and began to write and demo what she has described as "very personal songs" that would form the core of her first two albums. After a year or two, she decided to try performing them solo and started booking gigs. At a gig at the Weavers Arms, Rose was approached by Larry Love of Alabama 3
, leader of the headlining Larry Love Show Band. He liked her set and offered his band to back her for a few shows. Geoff Travis from the seminal UK record label Rough Trade Records
saw them play and offered Rose a solo deal. Rose released two albums and an EP on Rough Trade, both of which were well received by critics.
Rose's debut album, Shine Like It Does, was originally released in the UK in October 2000. The record was recorded in Monnow Valley studio, near Monmouth in Wales, and featured three members of Alabama 3
- guitarist Mark Sams, keyboard player Orlando Harrison and Simon "Sir Eddie Real" Edwards on drums. David Bull, the lead guitarist in Fledgling, and Barry Payne, the former bass player for Wreckless Eric
, also played on it. The album was engineered an co-produced by Jerry Boys (The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Buena Vista Social Club.) Shine Like It Does was re-released in 2001, with a different cover and shrink-wrapped with a new EP. The Party Dress EP was recorded with Iain Harvie
of (Del Amitri
) and Kris Dollimore (Del Amitri, The Godfathers
) in their studio in Rochester, Kent. US label Compass, run by Grammy-winning banjo-player Alison Brown
, adding three of the tracks from that EP to Shine when they released it in the US that April.
The song "Shining", which gives Shine Like It Does its title, featured in the Disney movie The Rookie
and is also on the soundtrack album along with Ryan Adams and Steve Earle. "Lie To Me" was featured in an episode of the TV series Felicity.
In October 2000 Rose opened for Ryan Adams on his UK tour. She started 2001 with a three-week residency at London's Borderline club, then toured the UK with Eddi Reader. She opened for Ron Sexsmith on his US tour in July 2001, and his tour of Ireland that November.
Rose's second album, Long Shot Novena, was released in February 2002 through Rough Trade
in the UK and Compass records in the US. It was recorded at Troy Town Studios in Rochester, Kent, with Harvie and Dollimore using guest musicians including Bull, Payne, Harrison and Del Amitri
drummer Mark Price. The Sex Pistols
' Glen Matlock
and The Ruts
' Seggs both feature on bass. Novena saw Rose experimenting with sequencing and drum programming for the first time. The UK's Daily Mirror newspaper described the album's sound as "“Spit ‘n’t sawdust country filtered through the Velvet Underground”. In support of the album, Rose toured the US with Frank Black and Ed Harcourt.
in Massachusetts with local musicians including guitarist Seth Goodman. It was released in the UK on Banana Records in October 2005. In the US, Judy Collins
personally offered to put it out on her own label, Wildflower Records, and it received a 2007 release.
Rose released her fourth album, At Our Tables, in Europe through Evangeline Records
on 10 March 2008. Recorded in Detroit, it was co-produced by Al Sutton, who has worked with Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock, and Eric Hoegemeyer (Charm Farm, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker). It was recorded with members of Rose's touring band, The Holy Wreck - guitarists Bull and Goodman, Nicholas Giadone Ward on bass - and members of local bands Sponge
and Detroit Cobras. Nick Lucassian of Detroit band Shipwreck Union sings a vocal duet with Rose on the track "Will-O'-The-Wisp".
The song "$20 Shoes" received over 500,000 views on YouTube when someone paired it up with a Betty Boop cartoon. In the UK, BBC Radio 2
's Bob Harris
playlisted "Doesn't Mean A Thing", and invited Rose to record a session for his show.
Rose asked guitarist and pedal steel player Rich Gilbert (known for his work with Boston bands Human Sexual Response
and The Zulus, and later with Tanya Donelly
and Frank Black and the Catholics), to join her band for the At Our Tables tour.
In September 2008, At Our Tables was re-released with an additional live CD of tracks off the album which was recorded at Long View Farm studios with the touring Holy Wreck band - Gilbert, Ward, and James Murray on drums. At the same session, the band recorded "Live At Longview", a limited edition CD featuring re-worked versions of old songs and demo versions of some new songs, which was self-released and sold at shows.
Rose recorded her fifth studio album, Luna Turista, with Gilbert and Stalfa and released it under the name of Eileen Rose & The Holy Wreck. The record features Joshua Hedley, who plays fiddle with Justin Townes Earle, on fiddle and vocals, and Aaron Oliva on bass. It was recorded half at the Fry Pharmacy in Nashville, and half in Berlin during the May 2009 tour. Rose and Gilbert produced, and the album was mixed by Rob Clark, who works with Neil Young and produced Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Deja Vu. It includes nine original Rose compositions and a cover of the country classic “Luckenbach, Texas” was a hit for by Waylon Jennings in 1977. Luna Turista was released in Europe on Floating World (an offshoot of Evangeline
) on 4 October 2009. Rose, Gilbert, Stalfa and Hedley toured Europe in support of the release in October/November, and Rose and Gilbert toured Germany again as a duo in October 2010. A US release for Luna Turista is planned for 2011.
In 2010, Rose was invited to contribute a song for the Joey's Song
project. She and Gilbert recorded a version of the old children's song "Oh Johnny Lebeck", which features on the first Joey's Song CD, which was released in January 2011.
When she is not recording or touring her own material, Rose plays on Nashville's Lower Broad
, with her classic country
/ honky tonk
covers band, The Silver Threads. Formed by Rose and Gilbert at the end of 2009, other band members include Johnnie Barber, who previously played drums with Johnny Paycheck
and Merle Haggard
, and upright bass players Joe Fick (Travis Mann Band) and Zachary Shedd (Hank Williams III). They cover songs by the likes of Connie Smith, Lynn Anderson, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, Buck Owens and Jeanne Pruet. The Silver Threads have weekly residences at Robert's Western World and Layla's Bluegrass Inn and they self-released their first album, entitled The Silver Threads, in December 2010.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
who is known for her eclectic Americana music. She has released five solo studio albums and toured Europe and the US extensively with her band The Holy Wreck. She is also a member of the band The Silver Threads.
Early years
Born Eileen Rose Giadone, in the north BostonBoston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
suburb of Saugus
Saugus
-Places:* Saugus, Massachusetts* Saugus, Santa Clarita, California, named after its sister city in Massachusetts* Saugus, Montana, a rural town in Prairie County-Ships:* USS Saugus , Canonicus-class single-turret monitor...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, Rose grew up in a close-knit Italian-Irish American family with five older sisters and three brothers. She started writing songs as a teenager and taught herself to read music and play the guitar. Waitressing to put herself through college, Rose began to study criminal law, but gave it up to begin performing on the local Boston music scene. She released a self-funded folk album and fronted the indie-rock bands Daisy Chain, Medici Slot Machine and then Fledgling.
1991-2003: UK and Rough Trade years
In 1991, Rose moved to the UK, living in north London. With Fledgling, she played on the London club circuit and toured the US east coast. Fledgling signed to Nine Inch Nail's TVTTVT Records
TVT Records was an independent US record label founded by Steve Gottlieb. Over the course of its 25 year history the label released some 25 Gold, Platinum and Multi-platinum releases. Its roster included Nine Inch Nails, Ja Rule, Lil Jon, Underworld, The KLF, Sevendust, Brian Jonestown Massacre and...
label and released one self-titled album in 1995, before disbanding. The Fledgling song "August" featured on the soundtrack of the Sandra Bullock / Denis Leary movie Two If By Sea
Two If by Sea
Two If by Sea is a 1996 romantic comedy feature starring Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary, Stephen Dillane and Yaphet Kotto. It was directed by Bill Bennett and written by Ann Lembeck, Mike Armstrong and Denis Leary.- Plot :...
.
When Fledgling split, Rose moved into an old cottage on a dairy farm in Essex and began to write and demo what she has described as "very personal songs" that would form the core of her first two albums. After a year or two, she decided to try performing them solo and started booking gigs. At a gig at the Weavers Arms, Rose was approached by Larry Love of Alabama 3
Alabama 3
Alabama 3 are a British band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, and gospel styles, founded in Brixton, London, in 1995. In the United States, they are known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama...
, leader of the headlining Larry Love Show Band. He liked her set and offered his band to back her for a few shows. Geoff Travis from the seminal UK record label Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
saw them play and offered Rose a solo deal. Rose released two albums and an EP on Rough Trade, both of which were well received by critics.
Rose's debut album, Shine Like It Does, was originally released in the UK in October 2000. The record was recorded in Monnow Valley studio, near Monmouth in Wales, and featured three members of Alabama 3
Alabama 3
Alabama 3 are a British band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, and gospel styles, founded in Brixton, London, in 1995. In the United States, they are known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama...
- guitarist Mark Sams, keyboard player Orlando Harrison and Simon "Sir Eddie Real" Edwards on drums. David Bull, the lead guitarist in Fledgling, and Barry Payne, the former bass player for Wreckless Eric
Wreckless Eric
Wreckless Eric is an English rock and roll/new wave singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single " Whole Wide World" on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time...
, also played on it. The album was engineered an co-produced by Jerry Boys (The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Buena Vista Social Club.) Shine Like It Does was re-released in 2001, with a different cover and shrink-wrapped with a new EP. The Party Dress EP was recorded with Iain Harvie
Iain Harvie
Iain Wallace Harvie is the guitarist with the Scottish rock band called Del Amitri. Along with lead singer and bassist Justin Currie, Harvie is one of only two members to be present throughout Del Amitri's history from its 1982 inception...
of (Del Amitri
Del Amitri
Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...
) and Kris Dollimore (Del Amitri, The Godfathers
The Godfathers
The Godfathers are an alternative rock band from London, England.-Career:The Godfathers were formed by Peter and Chris Coyne from the ashes of The Sid Presley Experience in 1985. After independent single releases produced by Vic Maile, and collected on their debut album, Hit By Hit, they signed to...
) in their studio in Rochester, Kent. US label Compass, run by Grammy-winning banjo-player Alison Brown
Alison Brown
Alison Brown is an American banjo player and guitarist known for a soft nylon-string banjo sound. She has won and has been nominated on several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck for her unique style of playing...
, adding three of the tracks from that EP to Shine when they released it in the US that April.
The song "Shining", which gives Shine Like It Does its title, featured in the Disney movie The Rookie
The Rookie (2002 film)
The Rookie is a 2002 drama sports film directed by John Lee Hancock. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief, but famous Major League Baseball career in 1999. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, and Brian Cox....
and is also on the soundtrack album along with Ryan Adams and Steve Earle. "Lie To Me" was featured in an episode of the TV series Felicity.
In October 2000 Rose opened for Ryan Adams on his UK tour. She started 2001 with a three-week residency at London's Borderline club, then toured the UK with Eddi Reader. She opened for Ron Sexsmith on his US tour in July 2001, and his tour of Ireland that November.
Rose's second album, Long Shot Novena, was released in February 2002 through Rough Trade
Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
in the UK and Compass records in the US. It was recorded at Troy Town Studios in Rochester, Kent, with Harvie and Dollimore using guest musicians including Bull, Payne, Harrison and Del Amitri
Del Amitri
Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...
drummer Mark Price. The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
' Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock is an English bass guitarist most famous for being in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer Johnny Rotten made some adjustments...
and The Ruts
The Ruts
The Ruts were a reggae-influenced British punk rock band, notable for the 1979 Top 10 hit "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was much played and highly regarded by the UK BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.-Career:...
' Seggs both feature on bass. Novena saw Rose experimenting with sequencing and drum programming for the first time. The UK's Daily Mirror newspaper described the album's sound as "“Spit ‘n’t sawdust country filtered through the Velvet Underground”. In support of the album, Rose toured the US with Frank Black and Ed Harcourt.
2003-2008: homecoming, Come The Storm and At Our Tables
In 2003, Rose returned to live in the US. She taught herself to play the piano and went to Martha's Vineyard to write new songs over the winter. The resultant album, Come the Storm was recorded at the famous Long View Farm studiosLong View Farm
Long View Farm Studios is a music recording studio that is located in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. It has been the location of recordings from the Rolling Stones and other bands.-Songs:*"Chip Away the Stone"*"I Will Follow You into the Dark"...
in Massachusetts with local musicians including guitarist Seth Goodman. It was released in the UK on Banana Records in October 2005. In the US, Judy Collins
Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...
personally offered to put it out on her own label, Wildflower Records, and it received a 2007 release.
Rose released her fourth album, At Our Tables, in Europe through Evangeline Records
Evangeline Records
Evangeline Records is an independent American record label based in San Francisco, California that promotes and releases music in the indie rock, baroque pop, psych folk, and Gothic Americana genres. The label was founded by notable songwriters Bob Frank and John Murry in 2006.Both Frank and Murry...
on 10 March 2008. Recorded in Detroit, it was co-produced by Al Sutton, who has worked with Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock, and Eric Hoegemeyer (Charm Farm, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker). It was recorded with members of Rose's touring band, The Holy Wreck - guitarists Bull and Goodman, Nicholas Giadone Ward on bass - and members of local bands Sponge
Sponge (band)
Sponge is a post-grunge band from Detroit, Michigan formed in 1991 by Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross, Tim Cross and Joey Mazzola. Sponge was signed to Sony Records in 1994 but have since switched to other labels....
and Detroit Cobras. Nick Lucassian of Detroit band Shipwreck Union sings a vocal duet with Rose on the track "Will-O'-The-Wisp".
The song "$20 Shoes" received over 500,000 views on YouTube when someone paired it up with a Betty Boop cartoon. In the UK, BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
's Bob Harris
Bob Harris (radio)
Robert Brinley Joseph "Bob" Harris, OBE , known as "Whispering" Bob Harris, is British radio host who currently works for BBC Radio 2, presenting music two nights a week...
playlisted "Doesn't Mean A Thing", and invited Rose to record a session for his show.
Rose asked guitarist and pedal steel player Rich Gilbert (known for his work with Boston bands Human Sexual Response
Human Sexual Response (band)
Human Sexual Response was an American New Wave band formed in Boston, MA in 1978. The band broke up in 1982.-Formation and early years:Casey Cameron formed an all-kazoo band with her neighbors, among whom were Larry Bangor , Dini Lamot , and Windle Davis...
and The Zulus, and later with Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly is an American Grammy-nominated singer songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh. She then went on to work in The Breeders and Belly in the 1990s...
and Frank Black and the Catholics), to join her band for the At Our Tables tour.
In September 2008, At Our Tables was re-released with an additional live CD of tracks off the album which was recorded at Long View Farm studios with the touring Holy Wreck band - Gilbert, Ward, and James Murray on drums. At the same session, the band recorded "Live At Longview", a limited edition CD featuring re-worked versions of old songs and demo versions of some new songs, which was self-released and sold at shows.
2009-present: Nashville, Luna Turista and The Silver Threads
At the end of 2008, Rose relocated to Nashville, TN and started to work with local musicians including Gilbert and drummer Nate Stalfa, known for his work with Knock Down Society and Caitlin Carey. The three played live together a lot, and previewed songs from Rose's forthcoming album on a European tour in May 2009.Rose recorded her fifth studio album, Luna Turista, with Gilbert and Stalfa and released it under the name of Eileen Rose & The Holy Wreck. The record features Joshua Hedley, who plays fiddle with Justin Townes Earle, on fiddle and vocals, and Aaron Oliva on bass. It was recorded half at the Fry Pharmacy in Nashville, and half in Berlin during the May 2009 tour. Rose and Gilbert produced, and the album was mixed by Rob Clark, who works with Neil Young and produced Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Deja Vu. It includes nine original Rose compositions and a cover of the country classic “Luckenbach, Texas” was a hit for by Waylon Jennings in 1977. Luna Turista was released in Europe on Floating World (an offshoot of Evangeline
Evangeline
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem published in 1847 by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians.The idea for the poem came from...
) on 4 October 2009. Rose, Gilbert, Stalfa and Hedley toured Europe in support of the release in October/November, and Rose and Gilbert toured Germany again as a duo in October 2010. A US release for Luna Turista is planned for 2011.
In 2010, Rose was invited to contribute a song for the Joey's Song
Joey's Song (CD series)
Joey's Song is the name of a series of music compilation CDs featuring nationally and internationally known artists who are donating their music to help raise awareness and monies to fight epilepsy. The "Joey's Song" CD series is being launched by The Joseph Gomoll Foundation, which was started in...
project. She and Gilbert recorded a version of the old children's song "Oh Johnny Lebeck", which features on the first Joey's Song CD, which was released in January 2011.
When she is not recording or touring her own material, Rose plays on Nashville's Lower Broad
Lower Broadway
Lower Broadway is a street that is a focal point of Nashville, Tennessee.The street runs east and west between Interstate 65 and the west bank of the Cumberland River. Its features include the Bridgestone Arena, the Nashville Convention Center and various honky tonk bars, including Robert's Western...
, with her classic country
Classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country hits from past decades.This genre generally follows one of two formats: those specializing in hits from the 1920s through the early 1970s, and focus primarily on innovators and artists from country music's Golden...
/ honky tonk
Honky tonk
A honky-tonk is a type of bar that provides musical entertainment to its patrons...
covers band, The Silver Threads. Formed by Rose and Gilbert at the end of 2009, other band members include Johnnie Barber, who previously played drums with Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...
and Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
, and upright bass players Joe Fick (Travis Mann Band) and Zachary Shedd (Hank Williams III). They cover songs by the likes of Connie Smith, Lynn Anderson, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, Buck Owens and Jeanne Pruet. The Silver Threads have weekly residences at Robert's Western World and Layla's Bluegrass Inn and they self-released their first album, entitled The Silver Threads, in December 2010.
Touring
Throughout her career, Rose has toured extensively with her live band, Eileen Rose & The Holy Wreck. They have headlined tours in the UK, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. In 2009 they played their first shows in Croatia and Serbia. Rose has also opened for many artists in the US and Europe, including Ryan Adams, Ron Sexsmith, David Gray, The Pernice Brothers, Handsome Family, Eddie Reader, Ani DiFranco, Judy Collins, Jonathan Richmond, Frank Black, The Ramones, Tim Finn, Joe Ely, Radiohead, Butch Walker, Alabama 3, Tanya Donnelly, The Lemonheads, Joe Bonamassa, Cracker, Wayne Hancock and Lonnie Donegan.- Rose performed at the 2009 SxSW
- In June 2009 Rose was invited to play at the opening of the Charlotte Street Blues Bar in London
- In July 2009 she performed at the Goud'Acoustic Festival Folk Americana in Goudargues, France
- In May 2010 Rose and Gilbert played at the Sarzana Acoustic Guitar Festival with Jackson Browne
- In November 2010 Rose was asked to play a the Wood House Concert Series in St. Louis, Missouri.
Eileen Rose
- Shine Like It Does (2000) Rough Trade RecordsRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
(UK) - Party Dress EP (2001) Rough Trade RecordsRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
(UK) - Shine Like It Does (2001) Sanctuary RecordsSanctuary RecordsSanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
(US) - Long Shot Novena (2002) Rough Trade RecordsRough Trade RecordsRough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
(UK) / Compass Records (US) - Come The Storm (2005) Banana Recordings (Sony Music) (UK) / Wildflower Records (US, 2007)
- At Our Tables (March 2008) Evangeline RecordsEvangeline RecordsEvangeline Records is an independent American record label based in San Francisco, California that promotes and releases music in the indie rock, baroque pop, psych folk, and Gothic Americana genres. The label was founded by notable songwriters Bob Frank and John Murry in 2006.Both Frank and Murry...
(UK) - At Our Tables Plus (including a bonus live CD) (September 2008) Evangeline RecordsEvangeline RecordsEvangeline Records is an independent American record label based in San Francisco, California that promotes and releases music in the indie rock, baroque pop, psych folk, and Gothic Americana genres. The label was founded by notable songwriters Bob Frank and John Murry in 2006.Both Frank and Murry...
(UK)
Eileen Rose & The Holy Wreck
- Live At Longview (2008) (self-released)
- Luna Turista (2009) Floating World (UK)
Soundtracks, Compilations, Guest Performances
- Soundtracks
- The Fledgling song "August", co-written by Rose and David Bull, was included on the soundtrack of the Sandra Bullock / Denis Leary movie Two If By SeaTwo If by SeaTwo If by Sea is a 1996 romantic comedy feature starring Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary, Stephen Dillane and Yaphet Kotto. It was directed by Bill Bennett and written by Ann Lembeck, Mike Armstrong and Denis Leary.- Plot :...
(1996)
- The Fledgling song "August", co-written by Rose and David Bull, was included on the soundtrack of the Sandra Bullock / Denis Leary movie Two If By Sea
- "Shining", from Shine Like It Does is on the soundtrack album for the Disney movie The RookieThe Rookie (2002 film)The Rookie is a 2002 drama sports film directed by John Lee Hancock. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief, but famous Major League Baseball career in 1999. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, and Brian Cox....
(2002), along with Ryan Adams and Steve Earle.
- "Lie To Me", from Shine Like It Does, featured in an episode of the TV show Felicity
- Compilations
- "Mortar And Stone", a track Rose recorded at the Shine Like It Does sessions but did not include on the album, can be found on Truck RecordsTruck RecordsTruck Records was an independent record label based in Oxford, England. It grew out of the Truck Festival, held annually in Steventon, a small village near Oxford...
' Down at the Twisted am Lounge compilation (2001)
- "Mortar And Stone", a track Rose recorded at the Shine Like It Does sessions but did not include on the album, can be found on Truck Records
- "Rose", from Shine Like It Does, featured on Uncut Magazine's CD in in February 2001
- "Good Man", from Long Shot Novena, featured on Uncut Magazine's CD in April 2002
- "Wheels Going By" appeared on Another Country Vol 2 (2004) (Agenda) (UK)
- Rose's previously unreleased version of "Oh Johnny Lebeck" features on the first Joey's Song CDJoey's Song (CD series)Joey's Song is the name of a series of music compilation CDs featuring nationally and internationally known artists who are donating their music to help raise awareness and monies to fight epilepsy. The "Joey's Song" CD series is being launched by The Joseph Gomoll Foundation, which was started in...
(January 2011)
- Guest Performances
- Rose sings on "Femtex" on Therapy's album TroublegumTroublegumTroublegum was the second major label album by the band Therapy? It was released on February 7, 1994 on A&M Records. The album was recorded in 1993 at Chipping Norton Studio in Oxford, as well as Rak Studios and Church Studios, both in London. It had a melodically dark, metal-like sound. The album...
(1994)
- Rose sings on "Femtex" on Therapy's album Troublegum
- Rose provided backing vocals for Alabama 3Alabama 3Alabama 3 are a British band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, and gospel styles, founded in Brixton, London, in 1995. In the United States, they are known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama...
's single Wade Into The Water, from their 2000 LP, La Peste. She also joined them onstage during their tour.
- Rose sings "North Pole Transmission" on FC KahunaFC KahunaFC Kahuna are a British DJ and electronic music production duo, consisting of Jon Nowell and Daniel Ormondroyd. FC Kahuna released Machine Says Yes in the spring of 2002, which had a number of singles released from it, most notably "Machine Says Yes" and "Hayling", which both featured Icelandic...
's Machine Says Yes album (City Rockers City Rock, 2002).
Interviews
- Eileen Rose interview, wears the trousers, January 2006
- Eileen Rose interview, pennyblackmusic.com (January 2010)
- Eileen Rose interview, shakenstir.co.uk (January 2010)