Biography
Esther Rose merges heartfelt depth with playful ease in her sweetly nostalgic country style, sharing the broad reach of performers such as Margo Price and Kelsey Waldon. Dreamy, rural-inflected tones define her first solo release, This Time Last Night, which surfaced in 2017. On her third album, How Many Times from 2021, a hint of pop brightness entered the arrangements while the material retained its rustic, folk-rooted warmth. That same approach guided 2023’s Safe to Run, which featured a duet alongside Hurray for the Riff Raff.
Detroit-born and New Orleans-based, Rose launched her recording work in 2013 alongside then-husband Luke Winslow-King. Following their 2015 separation, she turned to assembling her own project. The sessions for This Time Last Night took place in April 2017 with Lyle Werner on fiddle, Matt Bell on lap steel, Callie Millington on bass, and Cameron Snyder on drums; the Mashed Potato label issued the album that June. During the same period she contributed backing vocals to two songs on Jack White’s Boarding House Reach, released in 2018.
She soon joined Father/Daughter Records, which put out her second album, You Made It This Far, in 2019. The core band returned, though Dan Cutler replaced Millington on bass. Mid-2020 brought the covers EP My Favorite Mistakes on the same imprint, presenting Rose’s versions of songs first recorded by Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, Sheryl Crow, and Nick Lowe.
Co-produced by Rose and Ross Farbe of the synth-pop group Video Age, How Many Times was tracked with the prior album’s musicians plus electric guitarist Max Bien-Kahn. Father/Daughter handled the U.S. release in March 2021 while Full Time Hobby managed the U.K. edition. After signing with New West Records, she issued early 2023 singles that included the Hurray for the Riff Raff collaboration “Safe to Run.” Expanding the player pool yet recalling Werner and Snyder, the Farbe-produced Safe to Run appeared in April.
Detroit-born and New Orleans-based, Rose launched her recording work in 2013 alongside then-husband Luke Winslow-King. Following their 2015 separation, she turned to assembling her own project. The sessions for This Time Last Night took place in April 2017 with Lyle Werner on fiddle, Matt Bell on lap steel, Callie Millington on bass, and Cameron Snyder on drums; the Mashed Potato label issued the album that June. During the same period she contributed backing vocals to two songs on Jack White’s Boarding House Reach, released in 2018.
She soon joined Father/Daughter Records, which put out her second album, You Made It This Far, in 2019. The core band returned, though Dan Cutler replaced Millington on bass. Mid-2020 brought the covers EP My Favorite Mistakes on the same imprint, presenting Rose’s versions of songs first recorded by Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, Sheryl Crow, and Nick Lowe.
Co-produced by Rose and Ross Farbe of the synth-pop group Video Age, How Many Times was tracked with the prior album’s musicians plus electric guitarist Max Bien-Kahn. Father/Daughter handled the U.S. release in March 2021 while Full Time Hobby managed the U.K. edition. After signing with New West Records, she issued early 2023 singles that included the Hurray for the Riff Raff collaboration “Safe to Run.” Expanding the player pool yet recalling Werner and Snyder, the Farbe-produced Safe to Run appeared in April.
Albums
Want
2026
Safe 2 Run (versions)
2024
Safe to Run
2023
How Many More Times
2021
How Many Times
2021
My Favorite Mistakes
2020
You Made It This Far
2019
Orange Moon
2019
Over You
2018
Singles
