Artist: The Rough & Tumble
Hometown: On the road permanently, with a P.O. Box in East Nashville
Song: “You’re Not Going Alone”
Album: We’re Only Family If You Say So
Release Date: February 19, 2021
In Their Words: “Written in the spring of 2019 in a borrowed kitchen in Michigan, one week after the collapse of our family. This song is one that was written into the darkness, realizing that we could never go home again — not in the way we always have, if at all. But those things — like the maple tree in the front yard, or the blackberry bushes — those can still be ours. As difficult and traumatic as family severance is, we decided we didn’t have to lose everything. We didn’t have to be alone. We have as much right to a family to call our own as the family that won’t call us their own, anymore.” — Scott Tyler and Mallory Graham, The Rough & Tumble
Photo credit: Annie Minicuci Fine Art Photography