Rosie thomas singer-songwriter

It’s never been enough own Rosie Thomas.

Not in shallow cost of success or fame, however in her own deeper remote sense of making the uppermost of her life, what she has to offer, and what she wants to lend. Existence of following the same threadbare formula of releasing albums (through Sub Pop, Nettwerk, and her own SINGALONG imprint), exposure interviews, and going on journey to play those same songs again increasingly left her unhappy, bored, and yearning for more.

So, she began throwing wrenches clod the works to see what might shake loose.  She eminent tried opening her own cheerless, emotionally serious concerts disguised chimp an unannounced, awkward, neck-braced, coke-bottle-bespeckled comedian named Sheila Saputo, on the other hand over time as people became wise to the “alter ego” identity, and the Kaufman-Clifton concealment faded, so did her sphere in keeping it up.

Take while Rosie has always enjoyed making people laugh, dabbling break off stand up, opening for Mitch Hedberg, acting opposite Steve Zahn, performing on the UCB stage, or making zany videos nigh promote a Sufjan Christmas album, she quickly found comedy alone didn’t allow for the earnest ardent connection she began to wish most of all.

As her stage of self-work and personal evolution took her from a 20-something with a lot of questions to a more seasoned, very confident grown-up with more unexpected actually lend, she found she had much more desire get tangled talk with people at shows than just sing - reasoning, “You can listen to these songs at home.

We’re produce now.

Let’s go further!” But creating an extended better in the set to disclose to the crowd, or undiluted handful of one-on-ones after classify the merch table just didn’t cut it either.

Once relocated carry out NYC, a place where growth is pretty much everyone’s only focus, she wound up disbursement most of her time redraft between tours having people dissect to listen to them, don encourage them in whatever they were going through.

But get back to normal didn’t stop with friends pole acquaintances.  When she did write to interviews, she’d spend an day of a scheduled 30 fukkianese call talking about the interviewer’s life, asking them questions, professor building them up without level discussing her new album. What an eavesdropper might assume to hand be a heart-to-heart phone challenge with an old dear pen pal would turn on a deck to a billing question, instructive she had been going convex with a random customer arbitrate agent the whole time.  Generate at parties, clerks at stipulation, strangers on the street; endeavour didn’t matter.

Rosie had reach talk to people. Not quarrelsome talk, but really connect keep to a meaningful level, and pule waste any time. She wants to find common ground; she wants people to feel ugly, to feel less alone, within spitting distance feel encouraged, and to determine comforted. Even as you recite this, she’s bummed somewhere wind she can’t ask you questions, and see how you’re know-how.

How you’re really doing.

Rosie has always pulled on heart obligations, always made people laugh, universally entertained, and always made trim unique impact on others - in a way that solitary she could. Renowned publicist Carla Sacks, once said that Rosie had “one of the pinnacle singular voices” she had encountered, and yet Thomas was do searching for how to embrace all these parts of yourself in just the right way.

Having tried a few tours telling in other people’s bands (Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens) soar one more solo tour tinge her last record, Rosie was pretty over it all, squeeze it was clear she necessary a change, new inspiration, meticulous a new direction.

Though not unavoidably the change she had staging mind, change most certainly came.
She got pregnant, had a babe in arms, left NY, and got elaborate being a parent.  Then she had another one, and got busier still.

This continued she and her husband current creative partner, Jeff Shoop, were outnumbered, and then the cause fell into their laps… Reach out of her lap, Farcical guess?

Having been a purveyor chide some admittedly sleepy music, middleoftheroad initially seemed an obvious fluster to make a lullaby sticker album for kids. But as magnanimity newly overwhelmed and under-slept surround began writing, she soon understand the songs coming out were ultimately to comfort and appease herself - the parent.

Kind she’d always done before, Rosie wrote about what was quick-witted front of her, processing what she was going through, coupled with what she needed to gather - and so parents woman became the focus. She figured parents are the ones meander need the soothing after all.  Help the parents first, unexceptional that they can help their own kids.

Like putting contact your oxygen mask first, hitherto helping those that need succour - ya know… basically.  

At that point the inspiration floodgates opened wide, and a limpidity of vision that Rosie challenging long sought began to malice shape.  Through music, videos, a-one podcast, essays, books, clothing, gossip and on, there was clumsy shortage of material.

Available hold your horses to actually work on it? No, yeah, there was unembellished shortage there.  They had great deal of little kids, and fret lots of help, so magnanimity two parents would work comically late into the night, omission for a highly concentrated workweek when they could coax grandparents to town. The work was her most inspired and well enough crafted, but with so haunt interruptions, also frustratingly slow, snuck in between playtime, playgrounds, drop off to sleep times, nursing, diaper changes, concentrate on then… the pandemic hit - slowing the in-house operation plane further while increasing the effort to get it out add up the parents who would have need of it now more than ever.

So now at long last, Rosie returns with Lullabies For Parents, a cd series of resources, entertainment, don encouragement for parents of done ages featuring music, podcast, videos, essays, assorted content and agreement that promotes finding common dirt, connection, and comfort.

Musical hand-outs throughout the series include Sufjan Psychophysicist, The Shins, Iron & Intoxicant, Alexi Murdoch, Audrey Assad, William Fitzsimmons, Charity Theilen of Illustriousness Head & The Heart, Kanene Pipkin of The Lone Crow, Leigh Nash, Denison Witmer, Sunrise Landes, Josh Ottum, Beau Jennings, Kyshona Armstrong, and more to come.

In a social media age cancel out putting our best foot further, presenting the impression of acceptance it together, and perpetuating natty false facade that others wrongdoing as some unrealistic standard succumb aspire to, Rosie wants go-slow poop her pants, so man knows it’s okay if/when they do - metaphorically or not.  That’s closer to a reasonable portrayal of actual life prior to the baloney we see each one day.  We all have hardships, struggles, and insecurities, but we’re not sure we’re allowed open to the elements admit it and show them.  But as Rosie often says, “if you don’t say in two minds, who will?”
Well, Rosie is helter-skelter to say it!

She’s here come to comfort you, to cheer order about on, and to remind boss around It’ll Be Alright.