CAITLIN ROSE Dead Flowers (2010 UK 7-track CD mini-album - Hailing from Nashville, 22-year-old Caitlin Rose is no ordinary country singer. Blessed with a startling, precocious native talent, a silvery, bell-clear, brilliant voice and crucially, an undeniable charisma along with defiant songwriting style all her own. A precursor to a full length album due later in 2010, 'Dead Flowers' is a distilled taste of Caitlin Rose, with the help of Andy Wilkins on pedal steel guitar, Zach Serchfield on guitar, Bob Grant on mandolin, and Travis Collingsworth on bass. Her two cover versions are the title track, The Rolling Stones 'Dead Flowers' turned into a forlorn, pedal-steel infused ballad and an elegant, torch song take on Patsy Cline's 'Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray'. Elsewhere we find bare knuckled honky-tonk on the teenage pregnancy tale 'Shotgun Wedding', tambourine-led acapella on the ever-so-sassy 'Gorilla Man', while on the lovelorn lament 'T-Shirt', Caitlin shows a songwriting ability well beyond her years!)