Portland Country Alt: Rose Gerber & Sweet Relief – The Fall
Gerber sounds the way we think we sound when we’re belting it out in the shower, sure as day we should go on the road.
For Portlanders who love a good, solid, amazing female voice that’ll bring you to your knees (think Linda Ronstadt, Karla Bonoff, Natalie Merchant – and you’ll get the idea), then you’ll love your very own Rose Gerber & Sweet Relief. Gerber’s voice is strong, velvety, achingly pure. She sounds the way we think we sound when we’re belting it out in the shower, sure as day we should quit our day job and go on the road.
We’re so glad she’s quit her day job.
The Sweet Relief band puts out chords and beats that match Gerber’s voice perfectly. They deliver Lindsay Buckingham tones, Chet Atkins twangs, Russ Kunkel beats, Allman Brothers’ strums. Think we’re kidding?
Just listen. You’ll be a forever fan.
The Fall
(lyrics)
Come over
Lay beside me
In the still
with the music on.
He loves
The kind of mythic
That I thought was dead and gone.
I wish you wouldn’t hold me
Like you want me for your own.
It only makes me wonder
What you want when I’m alone.
I cannot read your mind
And predict where the weather’s going.
If this could only be another simple love song.
If I could only trust the fall.
If what you want is only just a love and me gone
Then I’d rather be alone.
Who are you when you’re walking
On the street all alone?
Do I cross your mind
As you look down at your phone?
Too much in my head
And I’m counting down the time.
Too good for being true
It’s hard to tell what I might find.
I’ve got a lovesick heart.
I’ve got a troubled and a worried mind
If this could only be another simple love song.
If I could only trust the fall.
If what you want is only just a love and me gone
Then I’d rather be alone.
If this could only be another simple love song.
If I could only trust the fall.
If what you want is only just a love and me gone
Then I’d rather be alone.
I’d rather be alone
rather be alone
I’d rather be alone
rather be alone
rather be alone
I’d rather be alone
rather be alone
I’d rather be alone
With my heart ache.
Rose Gerber & Sweet Relief Band Members
Rose Gerber – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
Mark McIntire – Bass
Mathew Peluso – Pedal Steel
Jeff Porter – Electric Guitar
Casey Tuck – Drums