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Show Dog Nashville has announced the appointment of Jean Williams to the position of Northeast Promotion and Marketing Director by GM, George Nunes. Williams has extensive music industry experience most recently as Director of Affiliate Sales at Westwood One. Williams has previously held radio promotion positions at Warner Music and Sony Music Nashville.
New country artist Rose Falcon just released her 5-song EP entitled ’19th Avenue The EP Volume 2′ with Show Dog Universal Music. Overall, it’s a decent effort. Rose’s voice is slightly airy with a stronger than usual nasally tone combined with a bit of grittiness–the best I can describe it. Very similar to artists like Lucinda Williams, so to me her voice is a little more folk/Americana rather than country. She doesn’t necessarily sound like every artist out there, which is a good thing when you are trying to stand out. I’m kind of on the fence about this one. I don’t absolutely love it, but I don’t hate it, either. Just middle of the road for me.
Lyrically, I feel the songs are well-written and there is strong composition/structure musically. However, none of the songs really wowed me, but I enjoyed “Carry Me Home”–a mid-tempo song with more of a traditional country feel to it with lots of fiddle added in. I, also, enjoyed “If Love Had A Heart”, which is mid-tempo, heartfelt ballad. I really liked this one, which I felt was the most radio-friendly of all the songs, and thought it was a good fit for her voice.
