Walter Rose - Cast Your Stone (2012)

Tracklist

01. When You Were Mine
02. Dusty Road
03. Head for the Hills
04. On My Mind
05. Times Are Hard
06. Driving South (Feat. Lucinda Williams)
07. Black Crow
08. Better Days
09. Wrecking Ball
10. Long Winter
11. Cast Your Stone


Warmth is the feeling you’re hit with as soon as you’ve pressed play on the debut Walter Rose album.

American Songwriter Magazine wrote that Rose’s previous EP sounded “as if it could have been released in 1975.” This carries over to Cast Your Stone, not only in the closeness of Rose’s voice and confessional lyric style, but also in the overall sonic experience. The record sounds the way that records sounded when they were made to live on your shelf and age like family heirlooms. Rose’s dusty, weathered, but assured voice is perfectly suited to songs that American Songwriter went on to describe as “melodic novellas of road trips through broken-down desert towns” and “the kind of stories that bring to mind tumbleweeds blowing through old Clint Eastwood movies.”
Cast Your Stone actually amps up the production style that Rose began to define on his self-released EP. The songs from that release were produced by Rose himself, but it was upon meeting and beginning to work with Grammy-winning producer Eric Liljestrand that Rose decided to re-record that material and flesh out another five songs to arrive at the finished Cast Your Stone album. Getting to this point wasn’t even a glimmer in Rose’s eye a short time ago, though. In fact, Rose’s entry into the world of songwriting wasn’t one of those “I was born to do this” stories. It is, unfortunately, one of those “I’ll die if I don’t do this” stories.

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