The Rosewood Thieves are: Erick Jordan (voice, guitar), Mackenzie Vernacchio (organ, Wurlitzer), Paul Jenkins (guitar and bass), and Mark Bordenet (drums).
Spearheaded by singer/songwriter Erick Jordan, the Rosewood Thieves' music harkens back to the classicality of acts such as the Band and Bob Dylan. Their songs are entwined with the stripped-down fundamentals of Rock & Roll and the sensuality of R&B. Country music's bleeding heart is the final straw that completes the Rosewood Thieves honest-to-goodness presentation. Jordan's raspy vocal delivery is earnest and charming like a young John Lennon, but convincingly more impressive than his twenty one years of age.
The Rosewood Thieves were snowed in when the songs from their Lonesome EP were recorded. They were up in the Pocono Mountains filming and were unable to drive back to New York due to treacherous conditions. They stayed at Erick's parents' house while waiting out the storm. That first night, after a warm dinner, they drank coffee and tea in the basement recording studio where Erick picked up his guitar and played the band a song he had just written, "Honey, Stay Awhile." Paul suggested that while they were there, they might as well spend the night recording the new song. This snowballed into a three-day session, wherein most of the songs were recorded late at night, the studio only lit by many small candles.
"Being stuck up there, in the country, it only seemed natural to choose the songs we chose, and it only seemed appropriate to title the EP Lonesome." says Erick.
On the third morning the group went downstairs to find Mark playing a melody on the Baby Grand. Everyone picked up the first instruments they saw and Erick starting singing the lyrics he and Mackenzie had written at Barramundi (Clinton St., NYC) earlier that week for "Murder Ballad In G Minor." It all seemed to come together easily, as spontaneous as the entire Lonesome session.
Their previous EP, From The Decker House, was originally released as a six-song EP last summer on the now-shuttered V2 Records. The expanded re-issued version contains three additional outtakes from that original recording session. From The Decker House also features piano legend Bob Dorough, best known for composing the Schoolhouse Rock childhood favorite "Conjunction Junction" (as well as critically acclaimed jazz recordings from the mid-'50s to the present), in addition to performances by drummer Otto Hauser (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver), pedal steel guitarist Mike Daly (Whiskeytown), and vocalist Blake Hazard.
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