[Cover photo credit to Lindsay Duncan]
Grammy-nominated and multi-JUNO Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rose Cousins has released her new album Conditions of Love – Vol 1. To help celebrate the occasion, Cousins has revealed a video for “Needed You,” a song that “speaks to the scars of childhood.”
She describes the song as:
…A loving lament to those moments when we most needed love and it wasn’t available. Time passes and we figure out how to survive in the world we are born into. Later, out in the world on our own, we begin to see ourselves as two separate people: who we needed to be as a child, and the adult we have become, away from our family dynamic. Generational pain is real. You can run screaming from your childhood only to get to midlife and there it is, still waiting to be held, acknowledged. I don’t know that there’s a way to reconcile the emotional past. I know we can get stuck choosing between authenticity and connection. Love is constantly trying to endure and persist in endless conditions, whether our needs are getting met or not. We do the best we can.
In the end, Conditions of Love – Vol 1 journeys through longing and lands in a place of acceptance, perhaps the only real way forward.
Co-produced with friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, Conditions of Love – Vol. 1 sees Rose Cousins return to her first love, the piano.
She shares:
Piano is where I feel the most connected. It’s the best partner in expressing the emotion I’m mining.
ROSE COUSINS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR:
March 29 – Fredericton, NB @ Wilmot United Church
April 1 – Sherwood Park, AB @ Festival Place Theatre
April 2 – Calgary, AB @ National Music Centre
April 3 – Saskatoon, SK @ The Basement
April 5 – Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
April 7 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
April 8 – Kingston, ON @ The Broom Factory
April 9 – Peterborough, ON @ Market Hall Performing Arts Center
April 11 – Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple – The Concert Hall
April 12 – Hamilton, ON @ The Westdale
April 13 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
April 16 – Charlottetown, PE @ Confederation Centre Of The Arts
April 17 – Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
April 18 – Moncton, NB @ Capitol Theatre (Moncton)
April 19 – Saint John, NB @ Imperial Theatre
May 7 – Vienna, VA (DC) @ Jammin Java
May 8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Littlefield
May 9 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Hors
May 10 – Groton, MA @ Groton Hill Music Center
June 13 – St John’s, NL @ Majestic Theatre
October 3 – Pender Island, BC @ Pender Islands Community Hall
October 4 – Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom
October 6 – Vancouver, BC @ St. James Community Square, Mel Lehan Hall
October 8 – Vernon, BC @ Vernon Performing Arts Centre
October 9 – Lake Country, BC @ Creekside Theatre
