Rosine
Home
(Rag and Bone Shop Records)
Life in a Blender bassist and Kingston resident Mark Lerner begins Home, the third self-produced effort by his solo project, Rosine, with a genteel, banjo-tinged take of the 19th century ballad “The Lone Pilgrim.” Previously recorded by the likes of Doc Watson and Bob Dylan, it’s mournful and beautiful but seemingly at odds with the cover image of a seafoam green electric guitar with its pickup selector offering options to “cease” or “desist.” The rest of the album’s nine cover songs (They Might Be Giants’s “Dead,” Phil Ochs’s “No More Songs,” Randy Newman’s “Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father”) assay other aspects of mortality, with slightly more sonic spread, including some of that subdued electric guitar, but the tone—as in the synth-underpinned “Dreadful Wind and Rain”—remains delightfully bedroom-y. A quiet, lilting way to while away a rainy evening, lost in your own thoughts of the here and now, and the later.
This article appears in November 2025.
