About The Blushin' Roulettes

"Their songs are stripped down, enthralling,
sexy, little jewel boxes
stuffed with ancient mountain magic."
-- San Francisco Free Folk Festival

Hailing from the west coast friendly ghost town of Caspar, California, the Blushin' Roulettes deliver old-time tunes with a modern twist rooted in feminine perspective. Award winning songwriter Angela Rose belts her sweet and sultry tunes of damsels in their bliss and distress in a warbling vibrato often likened to Iris Dement. The quirkily comical stage presence and loving interplay amidst band members reflects the closeness of the kindred rotating cast of characters, which includes Buddy Stubbs on soulfully gritty lead guitar (Stubbs has played with members of Crazy Horse, Gene Clark, and Hollywood Fats, to name a few). Cas Sochacki rings in on the dobro and on baritone vocals on salty duets. Not-so-little drummer boy Jubal Stedman chugga-lugs brushy train-beat rhythms.

Feathers in the Roulettes' cap include performances at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival, San Francisco Free Folk Festival, North Bay Hootenanny and the Humboldt Hills Hoedown, as well as shared stages with The Wailin' Jennys, Wayne "the Train" Hancock, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, and The Devil Makes Three. Front woman Angela Rose has earned herself a few ribbons in countrywide songwriting contests, including KZFR/Sierra Nevada's Celebration of the Song, Woody Guthrie Songwriting Competition, Artists for Literacy's SIBL Project, and South Florida Folk Festival. In the past year the Roulettes toured southeast Alaska, pacific northwest Oregon, California and Washington. This year they are bringing their music to the
southeast US and Europe.

Quotes & Articles

"You guys are really good." -- Larry Trask, KHUM

One hell of a wisecrackin' duet
by Sara Liner, January 20, 2010, Anderson Valley Advertiser
On stage, as in life, the two play off of these differences beautifully, comically. As important as their differences is what they do share in a common: a life together living on Cas's family farm and a rare knack for writing songs that are at once poignant and clever. Songs like "The Day Pigs Fly" and "Ramblin' Gamblin'" are written with an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek take on relationships.
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The Blushin' Roulettes and their Fine Friends
By Monica Krauth, April 2009, The Ukiah Daily Journal
. . . their mixture of California country and twang coupled with an eerie, yet, sexy stage presence has earned them a steady and ever-increasing following.
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