| "Eileen Rose shows
the single-minded spirit and intensity of Ani
DiFranco, full of attitude and gritty, evocative portrayals
of life on an emotional knife-edge...The arrival of a forceful new
talent whose day will surely come." - MOJO
In the opening lines on Eileen Rose's
debut album Shine Like It Does
she sings: "I was sure enough to come. I was dumb enough to
stay." And therein hangs a tale. Over the next 45 minutes this
gifted songwriter, guitar player and singer offers up 11 happy-sad
songs about her Irish-Italian American background and the life she's
lived for the last ten years in England. Through the thinly-veiled
autobiography we follow Rose's
drift across the North Atlantic, from the poor north Boston suburb
of Saugus (bordering on the notorious Lynn) where she grew up the
youngest of six sisters and three brothers - via Salem, Massachusetts
and on to, first, rural Essex and subsequently north London.
Q Magazine described Rose's voice as "an earthy, expressive
thing conveying lived-in loveliness and battered vulnerability somewhere
between Stevie Nicks, Patti
Smith and Michelle Shocked."
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