Jol Rose is a Swindon-based singer-songwriter. With roots in London, Jol has performed his raw mix of Americana acoustic folk on moving trains, stationary flat-bed trucks and remote Pacific islands.
His debut album My Nebraska (2019), recorded and released in Swindon’s Earthworm Studios, mixed stateside influences with desolation and doubt from much closer to home.
2020 saw the release of Jol’s home-recorded, self-produced Welcome to Zombieland. Mixing fake news with the winged facts flying past the box room, captured by the condenser microphone, dystopia and fallen dreams come home to roost.
Peace Love Americana was Jol’s third album, featuring Rachael Birkin on fiddle (she appears on all three albums, and often live too), award-winning UK pedal steel player Holly Carter, fab keyboardist Jon Buckett (also on all three biscuits) plus – for the first time – wonderful Lewis Lord-Jenkins on drums, Drew Di Fiore on bass, and old friend Jason Serious on harmony vocals.
Liars & Thieves is the forthcoming album, due to be released early 2025. The first single from the album – with the title track plus Palestine, Free – was released summer 2024.
There have been tours, supporting albums and making new friends: four of them criss-crossing around Germany (and a bit of Holland), one along England’s south coast. Through the lockdowns and across all sorts of social distances, the Corsa has done us proud.
2019 – Autumn Song Tour
2020 – Welcome to Zombieland Tour
2022 – South Coast Tour
2023 – Peace Love Americana Tour
2024 – Liars & Thieves Tour
He’s played around the world. Highlights include:
- The Bedford, London-Balham, UK
- Folk in a Field – Norfolk, UK
- Unity Park – Luganville, Vanuatu
- King Arthur – Glastonbury, UK
- Equinox Fest – Lincoln, UK
- Artliners – Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
- Hope & Anchor – London, UK
- The Brunswick – Brighton, UK
- Passy Metro – Paris, France
- Deichdiele – Hamburg, DE
- Maggie’s Farm – Ely, UK
- Hampshire Hotel – Delft, NL
- Bradford Roots Festival – Bradford-on-Avon, UK
- Acoustic Couch – Bracknell, UK
- Chattahoochee – Hamburg, DE
- India House – New Orleans, USA
- Cricklade Club – Cricklade, UK
- Pilhuhn – Lohne, DE
- The Wolfhound – Haarlem, NL
- Tonfink – Lübeck, DE
More coming soon.
