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![]() The Roseline (from the album GOOD/GRIEF available on Alt Country Club Records) Over the course of five albums The Roseline have grown from a 2006 acoustic three-piece backing the songs of the band’s frontman Colin Halliburton to a five-piece band branding their own style of Americana. The recent release GOOD/GRIEF takes the cartoon Charlie Brown phrase into a Black and White world and personal trauma of songwriter Halliburton. Backing the tales is easy Country Rock circa 2020, The Roseline saddling “Pheasant Feather” to a Country and Western canter for a modern tale of addiction as they sing of losing sleep reading daily headlines in “Counting Sheep” while GOOD/GRIEFhuffs and puffs a Rock’n’Roll beat to hammer “Inside Out”. The songs of GOOD/GRIEF are custom made for tough people dealing with tough times. The album tributes a former keyboardist’s passing in “Song for Ehren” while underscoring the faint scent of wildfires in the California Country of “Green Flash”. For Colin Halliburton, the tracks that line GOOD/GRIEFmatch the words and music that give him comfort, feeling that ‘I’m drawn to writing about subjects that are dark but perhaps make the listener feel a little less alone. My favorite pieces of art always do that for me’. Heartland hopes and dreams cruise on easy strums to open GOOD/GRIEF with “Better to the Bone” as The Roseline lay down a solid backbeat for a Midwest daughter in “Ghost Writer” and shuffle in on a staggered heartbeat when small town life choices are weighed in “Quartz or Digital” while across town two lovers take the stage in “I Guess That’s Just How It Goes” Listen and buy the music of The Roseline from AMAZON For more information, please visit The Roseline website
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