Where Seattlest Kicks It Billy-O With Molly Rose

Last week, we headed out to Smith to catch up with local singer/songwriter Molly Rose, to chat about her work, learn about her purpose in life, and come back here to tell you people all about it so that you'd feel inspired to head to Columbia City Theater for her show this Thursday night.

It was happy hour. We took a booth in the back of the room because, despite the spectacular noise discrimination on our digital voice recorder's microphone, it was kind of loud in the joint. We were drinking PBR, Molly went for something stronger. We hit record on the gadget and jumped into the "interview" (really more of a glorified conversation).

Boy, we'd love to share that conversation with you.

Molly disclosed how she went from wanting to be Indiana Jones to wanting to turn her poetry into song. She talked about living in Wyoming just to see if she needed to make music. We talked about something having to do with cultural revolution, about roots music having something to do with the presidential election. About her fascinating, innate penchant for nailing unconventional time signatures, how she would never cut it in a punk rock band. At the end of the day, we decided, everything can be blamed on the elephants. Oh, it was good stuff.

But, alas! The gadget we were using to record the whole thing crapped out pretty much immediately, and we didn't even realize it until about, oh, 40 minutes later. So, thanks to Molly for the great, easy interview. You guys can get your own dose of Rose's good humor, arty poetics, and of course great music by heading to Columbia City on Thursday.

Molly Rose will play at Shenandoah Davis' CD release party on Thursday // 8 p.m. // Columbia City Theater // $10

photo courtesy of Sound on the Sound