Chelle Rose

ROLLING STONE: "On the proudly defiant "Blue Ridge Blood," singer-songwriter Chelle Rose puts her tough Appalachian roots on full display and even slyly acknowledges the dark artistic persona she has cultivated on her albums. "Couldn't get away from it if I tried, Blue Ridge blood," she shrugs."


NEW YORK TIMES "As a songwriter, Ms. Rose works in the realm of Lucinda Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Alejandro Escovedo and other terse, unflinching songwriters on the rock fringe of country. She sings about hard-nosed characters — herself, perhaps, among them"


SPIN MAGAZINE "So this kicks nine kinds of ass, and you oughta get up on it. Chelle Rose is an "Appalachian rock'n'roll" queen from Eastern Tennessee with a scythe-like twang that evokes Lucinda Williams but not "Lucinda Williams"; the title track was written to appease the vengeful ghost of her deceased ex-boyfriend (success), the hardest rocker is called "Alimony," and the rest will make Justified fans flip the fuck out. Outstanding."


OXFORD AMERICAN “The fact that Ray Wylie Hubbard produced this album is probably reason enough to buy it or download it or whatever you do to get music these days. But you’ll be getting a lot more than that. This is one of those albums that you put on, hoping it will be good, and it turns out to be better than you had any right to expect. If you were playing it on a turntable, you’d keep moving the tone-arm back to play certain tracks over again.” -WILLIAM GAY