Cold Roses
Friday, April 15th, 2016
The Foundry at The Fillmore
29 East Allen Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Doors open at 7PM
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Rob Clancy, behind the scenes - Cold Roses band, Philly
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The man is a mystery, and an open book at the same time.... It's hard to explain, so hear it from Rob himself in this exclusive behind the scenes interview below.
"I think that one of the biggest challenges all bands and artists face is getting people to hear your music. The destination seems obvious, but the avenues in getting there can be over-whelming. A lot of people spend more time criticizing the evolving industry rather than engaging in it. At the end of the day you need to put your work in, and focus on the end goal, whatever that ultimately is. If I were to offer any advice, it would be to perform in front of an audience no matter how big or small, as often as possible. Nobody is “too cool” for a gig when they’re starting out. We’ve done tons of shows for an audience of one, mainly just the bartender. You tend to learn more from the not so great moments, and it makes you appreciate the high moments."
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http://www.coldrosesband.com/
The man is a mystery, and an open book at the same time.... It's hard to explain, so hear it from Rob himself in this exclusive behind the scenes interview below.
"I think that one of the biggest challenges all bands and artists face is getting people to hear your music. The destination seems obvious, but the avenues in getting there can be over-whelming. A lot of people spend more time criticizing the evolving industry rather than engaging in it. At the end of the day you need to put your work in, and focus on the end goal, whatever that ultimately is. If I were to offer any advice, it would be to perform in front of an audience no matter how big or small, as often as possible. Nobody is “too cool” for a gig when they’re starting out. We’ve done tons of shows for an audience of one, mainly just the bartender. You tend to learn more from the not so great moments, and it makes you appreciate the high moments."
"There
really isn’t a defined “process” that I strictly adhere to, because you never
know how or when you’ll become inspired and it’s always different. I don’t just sit down and go “ok, today
I’m going to write a blues song”.
A lot of times I’ll write a piece of music, or a chord progression and
sit on it for weeks before it gets finished. Other times I’ll have some lyrics or pairing of words, but
won’t have the music until later.
I keep a notebook filled with random ideas and I have tons of song demos
that I record when I first come up with them. Sometimes I’ll re-discover something that I had totally
forgotten about, and it will become a song later. I think a lot of writers have an “idea junkyard” where you
keep bits and pieces of things.
Some you may use, others maybe not. I write on both piano and guitar, and I think that they both
warrant a different approach.
There are certain things you can do on piano that you just can’t do the
same on a guitar, and vice versa.
On the new record “Together”, “There May Come A Time” and “Like You
Could Always Do” were written on piano, even though they’re not particularly
piano-heavy songs. I usually like
to let ideas “marinade” for a bit.
If the melody or lyrics are still in my head the next day, then I know
it’s something worth finishing. To
eloquently paraphrase Willie Nelson “A song is like a fart. The more you ignore it, the more it
will annoy you. Sometimes you just
need to let it out”. There’s no
telling how long a song will take to complete. I’ve had times where I’ve written songs in under an hour,
“Staying Alive Ain’t Easy” was like that.
I started with the basic melody and everything else just flowed. The song “Read Your Mind” was
co-written with our drummer, so that was a different process too. He showed me the music he had in the
studio, and I went back to the hotel room after the session to condense the
structure a bit and write the lyrics.
One of my favorite aspects of writing is seeing where the song goes. I’ll bring in an idea or a
fully-written song to the guys in the band, and to see it evolve in a full-band
aspect is really exciting. It’s
cool to see what kind of stamp someone will put on your song. Having your band members convince you to
keep a song that you were intending to scrap is an added bonus too."
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Merle Haggard inspired a generation of working folks
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Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash in concert while locked up in prison and fell in love with music.... Most musicians can tell you when they KNEW music was for them. Mr. Haggard was no exception to this. We found this great story below and had to share it with our fans. We all have a story. We all have a choice to live the life we want to live. Rest in Peace Mr. Merle Haggard!!!
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Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash in concert while locked up in prison and fell in love with music.... Most musicians can tell you when they KNEW music was for them. Mr. Haggard was no exception to this. We found this great story below and had to share it with our fans. We all have a story. We all have a choice to live the life we want to live. Rest in Peace Mr. Merle Haggard!!!
-Cold Roses
“Folsom Prison Blues” gave Johnny Cash his first top-10 country hit in 1956, and his live concert performance at Folsom—dramatized memorably in the film Walk The Line—gave his flagging career a critical jump-start in 1968. But the prison with which Johnny Cash was most closely associated wasn’t Folsom, it was San Quentin, a maximum-security penitentiary just outside of San Francisco. San Quentin is where Cash played his first-ever prison concert on January 1, 1958—a concert that helped set Merle Haggard, then a 20-year-old San Quentin inmate, on the path toward becoming a country music legend.
Haggard was a product of Bakersfield, California, a hard-bitten Central Valley town that was the final stop for tens of thousands of poor, white farmers and laborers who migrated west during the 1930s, 40s and 50s seeking work in the factories, farm fields and oilfields of California. These Oklahomans, Texans and others referred to by the blanket term “Okies” brought with them a love of country music, and not just any country music, but “Loud music that plays until all hours,” as Wynn Stewart sang in his 1962 country hit “How the Other Half Lives.” Merle Haggard would eventually become an architect of the hard-driving, no-frills Bakersfield Sound, which shook the Nashville establishment in the 1960s. But not before he ran afoul of the legal establishment in ways that most country singers only sing about.
Haggard did his first stint in jail at age 11, when his mother turned him over to the juvenile authorities as “incorrigible.” As a teenager, Haggard went into jail at least three more times, and went out via escape at least once. In 1957, at the age of 18, Haggard was arrested on a burglary charge and sentenced to 15 years in San Quentin. He ended up serving only two years of that sentence, though, and he credits Cash with giving him the inspiration to launch a career after prison that included 38 #1 hits on the country charts, including “Sing Me Back Home,” “Okie From Muskogee” and “Today I Started Loving You Again.” Of Johnny Cash’s prison debut, Haggard said this: “He had the right attitude. He chewed gum, looked arrogant and flipped the bird to the guards—he did everything the prisoners wanted to do. He was a mean mother from the South who was there because he loved us. When he walked away, everyone in that place had become a Johnny Cash fan.”
Reference to article: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/inmate-merle-haggard-hears-johnny-cash-play-san-quentin-state-prison
R.I.P Merle Haggard! Thank you for this cool article History.com.
We have a Rhythm section, meet the band
Cold Roses
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“When I grow up, I want to be a musician. Well, son, you can’t do both” is the mantra
that Rob Clancy, founder, singer, guitarist and songwriter of Cold Roses lives by.
His creative vision refuses to be limited to a repetition of his previous works, so he sought
other musicians open to growing the sound and direction of Cold Roses as he had
envisioned. A Philadelphia native, he gravitated to 5 players who attended the University
of the Arts in Philly.
Cold Roses rhythm section consists of Alex Ayala keyboardist and
piano player, from Southern New Jersey, along with Matt Keppler on bass and Robby
Webb on drums, both hailing from the Jersey Shore. Matt is a seasoned bass player
whose career has spanned many different genres, while Robby toured with multiple
groups across the US. Robby is also an accomplished recording engineer. Tom
Petraccaro on sax brings that great soulful rock sound that sets Cold Roses apart from the
crowd and along with Rick Rein on trumpet, they kick it to a new level! Rick plays
several instruments and teaches aspiring artists in North Philadelphia.
With inspiration from the roots of rock and roll, blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, 60’s
R & B, echoing Led Zeppelin, Springsteen, Otis Redding and the Beatles, Cold Roses is
going to set a new standard of hard driving rock and roll!
Feel free to contact us with any questions. We would love to play in your city. What venue should we rock in your area? Let us know.
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that Rob Clancy, founder, singer, guitarist and songwriter of Cold Roses lives by.
His creative vision refuses to be limited to a repetition of his previous works, so he sought
other musicians open to growing the sound and direction of Cold Roses as he had
envisioned. A Philadelphia native, he gravitated to 5 players who attended the University
of the Arts in Philly.
Cold Roses rhythm section consists of Alex Ayala keyboardist and
piano player, from Southern New Jersey, along with Matt Keppler on bass and Robby
Webb on drums, both hailing from the Jersey Shore. Matt is a seasoned bass player
whose career has spanned many different genres, while Robby toured with multiple
groups across the US. Robby is also an accomplished recording engineer. Tom
Petraccaro on sax brings that great soulful rock sound that sets Cold Roses apart from the
crowd and along with Rick Rein on trumpet, they kick it to a new level! Rick plays
several instruments and teaches aspiring artists in North Philadelphia.
With inspiration from the roots of rock and roll, blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, 60’s
R & B, echoing Led Zeppelin, Springsteen, Otis Redding and the Beatles, Cold Roses is
going to set a new standard of hard driving rock and roll!
Feel free to contact us with any questions. We would love to play in your city. What venue should we rock in your area? Let us know.
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
Best new music - Rock, pop, country - Cold Roses
Where do we spend a lot of time besides the studio? Drum roll……. Checking out Indie rock n’
roll music blogs… It’s true, there
is so much really good talent out there and it’s cool to see local bands
getting better and better! We ask
ourselves, which blog should we submit our music to? The answer is, All of them! We owe it to our fans to get our music in their ears.
As we are doing everything we can to
get more people to listen to our music, we are finding out that there is no
shortage of indie music lovers.
That is what Cold Roses has going for us, we make the music that people
love. American rock n’ roll is a good way to describe the sounds that people
love, and we are creators of that music.
Our fans, like us, enjoy a variety of music and we love to bring it!
Where do you go to find the newest and best indie
music? What site is a must visit
for your latest indie music updates? Let us know!
Where do you listen to new music: on blogs, Youtube,
SoundCloud, or Facebook Like pages?
We want to make sure that our music is posted on your
favorite sites. We
personally enjoy our website, go and take a look! Also,
you can see all of our links to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
right there on the website while listening to our music.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Best new music - Rock n' Roll is NOT dead!
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Whoever said Rock and Roll was dead must have just given up
It’s rare in today’s music to find a band that embodies the swagger of rock and roll, groove of Philly-soul, heartache of the blues and folk-esque storytelling quite like Cold Roses.
After years as a guitarist in Philly bands, Rob Clancy decided to step out on his own as lead singer and songwriter, and form a group to play the music he’d been envisioning for so long. A post to Craig’s List ushered in Brandon Porter on bass, and the lineup became solidified with the addition of Alex Ayala on keys and R.M Webb on drums. The modest four piece would then expand to include a horn section, featuring Rick Rein on trumpet and Tom Petraccaro on saxophone.
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Honing their signature sound and electrifying audiences along the east coast for the past year and a half, Cold Roses self-released their debut LP “No Silence In The City” on November 1st, 2014. Produced by Webb and Clancy, and recorded at Miner Street Recordings, the band implemented a more “traditional” recording approach by performing each song live to analog tape, emulating the energy and intimacy of their live shows.
The result is an 11 song “tour de force” album that showcases the band’s versatility and “demonstrate[s] what it means to live and breathe the essence of rock and roll…this is a dirty, soulful, wickedly fun album” (ThatMag). Whoever said rock and roll was dead must have just given up.
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