David Kensett Rossiter
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Music
Press
"Fine Morning is one of those so-good-they're-scary tunes that force you to hit the repeat button just to make sure that you really heard what you just heard. Then it lingers in your head for a long,
long time." - W. Kim Heron,
- Metro Times
"David Rossiter has a tinder-dry voice tailor-made for pensive road maxims; gleaming pedal steel only adds to his authority." - Download.com - Download.com
"Rossiter is a storyteller first and foremost. If you like the parade of ornery hard-luck characters who have wound their way through Steve Earle's albums, or the tough, edgy romantic characterizations of the grassroots Ontario iconoclast Fred Eaglesmith, be aware that there's a local figure who can play in their league. And he's got a dry leather strap of a voice to go with his songs." - James M. Manheim, The Ann Arbor Observer - James M. Manheim
"One of the most skilled and smartest songwriters around these days. His lyrics really talk to me. His music is authentic. I have received lots of inspiration from it." - Christoph Mueller, Outlaw Artist - Outlaw Artist
"Rossiter is a storyteller first and foremost. If you like the parade of ornery hard-luck characters who have wound their way through Steve Earle's albums, or the tough, edgy romantic characterizations of the grassroots Ontario iconoclast Fred Eaglesmith, be aware that there's a local figure who can play in their league. And he's got a dry leather strap of a voice to go with his songs." - James M. Manheim, The Ann Arbor Observer - Ann Arbor Observer
Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
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Bio
MYTHIC EXISTENTIAL WEIRDNESS.
In 1999, David Rossiter lost a close friend to a freak accident and picked up the guitar. Since then, he’s been mesmerizing audiences with a unique blend of dark, driving, off-kilter alt. country music.
Rossiter sings, often in the first-person, of people tarnished by bad blood and bad luck who still find ways to make it through to the next town, day, marriage, crime, or bottle. A signature percussive fingerstyle technique and powder keg voice bring it all to sonic life.
An affable presence onstage when not channeling one strange character or another, Rossiter’s comfort zone is a spontaneous, careening edge that plays off the moment, the mood, and the room.
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