About

ROSEHILL

The Texas Interstate Highway System covers approximately 3,233 miles, and every mile marker just might have a tale to tell. It's an endless asphalt ribbon that conjures images of roadhouse jukeboxes, late-night radio and breaking dawn, filled with stories about hard work, good times and bad behavior. It's a feeling of endless possibilities, authentic Texas roots and genuine creative growth. It's the sound of White Lines and Stars, the debut album from country music duo Rosehill. “It's an album of life stories,” says Rosehill's Blake Myers. “We may have written these songs about our own lives, but we also knew that everyone could identify with these emotions and experiences. Both Texas and Texas music are all about independence and freedom, and our years playing on the road taught us that there were no boundaries to what we could do.” It's this uncompromising spirit that's spreading Rosehill's music wide while bringing the love home, as the album's evocative title track is already headed for the Top Ten at Texas radio. Rosehill are Myers and Mitch McBain, whose lifelong friendship began when both connected as music fans and fledgling performers while growing up together on Rosehill Drive in Cypress, Texas. “We met in high school,” Mitch explains. “I wasn't a singer yet and Blake didn't play guitar. Our bond was created because we needed each other. When we started writing songs, everything clicked.” The two would eventually become co-founders of the popular alt-country band Texas High Life, whose relentless touring, full-throttle shows and well-received albums tore up Texas clubs for nearly half a decade. But when the two sat down to write songs for the third THL disc, they discovered that they were instead headed in an entirely new direction. “As songwriters, we were always storytellers,” says Mitch. “But now we were taking what was happening in our own lives and putting it on paper. We were proud of what we'd accomplished with Texas High Life, but we'd always set out to play country music. And when Blake and I started writing this time, we knew we were beginning with a clean slate.” The two soon realized that these new songs - as well as their new duo dynamic - were something that was quite possibly bigger than Texas. “Like our song 'West Of Sunset' says, we 'had a guitar and amp and 15 songs, gonna burn some gasoline,'” remembers Blake. “When we got to Nashville and began talking to different producers, we knew that this was absolutely a re-birth for us. Everything we were doing was a 180-degree turn from the way we wrote, played and performed for years. As singers, songwriters and performers, we'd literally discovered our voices.”Produced by Texas music legend Radney Foster and singer/songwriter Jay Clementi, White Lines and Stars features 11 songs filled with smart lyrics, bright harmonies, killer hooks and gritty musicianship, all with a uniquely Texas edge. But it's the songs themselves - 8 of which are written or co-written by Myers and McBain - that tell the real story: It's a collection both deeply personal and wholly relatable, where good love and bad heartache can - and will - cross paths on any given day or night, be it backyard, honky-tonk or highway. The result is an album that throws back to nothing less than the classic discs of '90s country. “Our goal was to make a complete record,” says Blake. “There was a time when you could get away with putting out a record with only 3 big tracks, and the rest was filler. But you can't do that today. Country fans want to hear a story from start to finish. We think our album tells a whole story, and the individual songs are its chapters.”The album's initial breakout chapter is its title track, a song whose easy groove, soaring harmonies and ringing guitars paint an indelible picture of two lovers driving a quiet stretch of late-night highway, knowing that "it ain't the destination, it's the ride." And as its steady chart ascension proves, it's an intimate portrait that country fans are identifying with and making their own. “I wrote that song about one night on the road with my wife sleeping beside me,” explains Blake. “It describes a private moment, but so many people have discovered something in it that connects with them. To see the success of that song grow at Texas radio is really special and incredibly rewarding.” The highways of Texas - and beyond - will always beckon with tales to tell. Yet for Rosehill, the ride of their lives has just begun. “We don't see a destination in sight,” laughs Mitch. “Blake and I have always believed that if you don't shoot for the stars, you'll land short every time. We're in this to make great music, and we're just getting started. We want people to jump aboard and see where it leads.”