ROSE CITY BAND - Earth Trip LP Version:Forest Green Vinyl

ROSE CITY BAND - Earth Trip LP Version:Forest Green VinylRose City Band is celebrated guitarist Ripley Johnson. A prolific songwriter, Johnson started Rose City Band as an outlet nimble enough to match the pace of his writing as well as to explore songwriting styles apart from Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo. Rose City Band allows him to follow his musical muses as they greet him and not be bound by the schedules of bandmates and demands of a touring group. On Earth Trip, Johnson colors songs with a country rock

published for the first time in 1987

In this pitchblack place

The same uncompromising position that presides over this trio

"East" is the next installment of the Bitters story

which is set in New York

and is fully in effect here

nicknamed Black Harold

Active in the Bay Area new music scene since the late 1950s alongside composers such as Robert Erickson and Pauline Oliveros

The music has a very heavy low end

and black mass downtempo

'Longing' is exactly that

and at other times are twisted beyond recognition