Johanna Rose releases a 5 track EP, can’t love you from the ground, an American folk-inspired ode to their life in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. 

When the loons leave the lake and the world freezes over, all you’re left with is hard work, hopes and dreams. With these companions, in their little house on the side of the mountain, Rose huddled around the wood stove with their guitar and began drafting the songs in can’t love you from the ground.  Rose explores the heights and gullies of surviving a disparate late capitalist world, in arguably one of the most beautiful places on earth. Can’t love you from the ground borrows its name from a lyric in the second song, Carhartt Angel, a blue collar boot stomper about a back breaking job that keeps the lights on for us all. Resonator guitar, upright bass, bowed fiddle, and pedal steel weave their way through can’t love you from the ground while Rose lyrically encapsulates mountain life in a storied folk and country tradition. 

Like the late, great, Blaze Foley, Rose lives in a treehouse, where they wrote and largely recorded the EP. Living in a treehouse is not just a realized childhood dream, but a necessity in a state that, like many, faces a severe housing shortage. Rose started building the treehouse in 2020 when their life as a touring musician with Nickel&Rose came to a screeching halt, but it wasn’t until late 2021 that they braved their first winter in the treehouse and can’t love you from the ground  was unearthed. 

Johanna Rose plays resonator guitar and upright bass throughout the EP, but the project features a wide range of longtime and new collaborators as well, including Katie Lyne on piano (New Boyz Club), Ernest Brusubardis IV on fiddle (New Boyz Club, Nickel&Rose), Will Hansen on pedal steel (Old Pup), Nick Gamer on acoustic guitar and backing vox (Nick Gamer and the Midnight Angels) and Bryan Wollen on electric guitar, drums and backing vox (Nick Gamer and the Midnight Angels). 

https://johannarose.bandcamp.com/album/cant-love-you-from-the-ground