Album Review: "Grow" by Rose Alaimo
“I think this is a song of hope.” You may recognize that quote as being from Robert Plant, just before Led Zeppelin begins “Stairway to Heaven” in the 1975 concert film, The Song Remains the Same . Today, I’m going to talk about an album on which nearly every song might be called a song of hope. On my last post here, I reviewed a single song, “Orchid,” by Rose Alaimo, an artist whose music I discovered in 2020. While “Orchid” was my favorite single song of 2021, I think Rose’s album, “Grow,” was probably my favorite complete record of last year. “Grow” is sort of a concept album, although, unlike many concept albums, it doesn’t so much tell a single story with a sequential narrative, but, rather, focuses on different aspects of the theme of...