| In a music scene over-run with singer/songwriters Rusty Rowe has managed to create a sound that is both unique and unusual. A 22-year-old from the mid-west, Rowe strives to fuse all the influences of his upbringing into one solidified sound. Raised on country, classically trained in jazz, and a patron of many rock bands Rusty combines the clarity of acoustic pop with the power of hard rock. The result is an energy that can’t be achieved by simply stomping on a distortion pedal. This sound, that he laughingly refers to as aggressive acoustic rock, is influenced by many bands such as Talking Heads, Counting Crows, Radiohead, Weezer, and even Chevelle. These diverse and varying influences mesh together to create a refreshing and sought after new sound.
Rusty Rowe entered the studio in early 2005 and emerged with a six song demo. The demo is comprised of many themes from the past year. A co-worker’s angry ex, a doomed relationship, and a grievous sin are a few of these. Standing alone in a subterranean studio in northeast Oklahoma, Rusty belts out the end of Serving Each Other, “I thought that we could find out where each other should really be. I didn’t know how I was gonna help but I know how to make it fit.” This song, about the guilt associated with meaningless sex, concludes the cd, but the song that opens it has a much more subtle meaning. At first listen, it seems that Rowe is singing about a perishing house plant, but like most of his lyrics not everything is on the surface. The song Better Life is actually about dying relationships. Like plants decay without water, Rusty was withering without the comfort of the life he loved so much. He had lost his band, his position at work, and his girlfriend all in the same month. In reflection Rusty admits that these things were most likely connected, but is glad that they turned out the way they did. Much like the unattended plants in his apartment, Rusty Rowe’s “better life" had decomposed to fertilize his new life.
Rusty continues to play in small bars and coffee shops around Tulsa, but is soon to branch out much further than that. With the recent recording of The Rusty Rowe Trio’s “almost There….Again” new hope has arrived. Finally, Rusty has a band that can back up his eccentric stage presence. Now armed with an acoustic power trio, Rowe feels that he has nowhere to go but up. Coming full force with jazz chords, full spectrum bass lines, and pounding drum fills Rusty Rowe is the closest acoustic music will ever get to being contentious.
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