Johanna Rose

Flail Records artist Johanna Rose is a New Orleans-based singer, songwriter, upright bassist, and street performer making music that lives somewhere between the stars and the gutter. Her sound - smoky, sultry, chaotic - walks the line between beauty and grit. With vocals that can cut or soothe and bass lines that feel like a heartbeat and a tightrope all at once, Rose builds songs that don’t ask permission. It’s jazz with a crooked grin; grounded in tradition but never content to stay there.

New Album Chain Smoking Below Sea Level Out Now!

Johanna Rose’s new album doesn’t just tell a story, it douses a piano in champagne and gasoline and burns it at the crossroads under the full moon. Recorded entirely live in her New Orleans bedroom and told through a cloud of cigarette smoke and last night’s glitter,Chain Smoking Below Sea Level weaves between remorse and reckoning with wit and abandon. Declaring herself a “Real One” on the first track, featuring Myra Burnette on Guitar and New Orleans legend Gregory Moon Veals on Trombone, the introduction serves as a guarantee to the listener that the rest to follow will be Rose's unhinged, authentic truth.

Chain Smoking Below Seal Level

Full album out now ONLY on vinyl and CD!

First vinyl pressing! Full digital release January 3rd, the Full Wolf Moon.

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