Lawrence Rothman Continues “Stunning” (Rolling Stone) Collaborative Run On “Sunny Place For Shady People” Featuring Son Little

Rothman’s Upcoming New Album Good Morning, America Out July 16 On KRO Records

Lawrence Rothman has released “Sunny Place For Shady People” (feat. Son Little) today, the latest in an eclectic and acclaimed line of collaborations for Rothman that has most recently featured new songs with Amanda Shires and Lucinda Williams. While not included on Rothman’s just-announced upcoming album Good Morning, America (out July 16 on their own KRO Records), “Sunny Place For Shady People” undeniably shares a regional kinship with the recent advance track “Thrash The West” (feat. Amanda Shires) - which was praised by Queerty for “channeling the baritone ballads of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, The Smiths and Rothman's sometime collaborator Courtney Love,” adding “rarely does a folk ballad cut this deep, or this queer.”

Listen to “Sunny Place For Shady People” (feat. Son Little) here: https://orcd.co/lrsunnyplace

Watch the official video here: https://youtu.be/sW4aexJe8-s

Revisit “Thrash The West” (feat. Amanda Shires) here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfVoeDryWE

Pre-order Good Morning America here: https://orcd.co/goodmorningamerica

Building on Rothman’s recently-released collaborations with Son Little, Amanda Shires and Lucinda Williams, Good Morning, America will feature a group of special guests including Girlpool, Mary Lattimore, Pino Palladino, Katie Pruitt and Caroline Rose - as well as co-producers Yves Rothman (Miya Folick, Yves Tumor) and Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Angel Olsen, Sky Ferreira). The album finds Rothman "putting my most inner, conflicting thoughts and experiences into song,” working through their childhood trauma openly for the first time, and ultimately purging the isolation, pain and toxic masculinity of the past year.

“Summer 2020 had me in a tailspin,” Rothman says of writing their latest single. “I was recording in my home state of Missouri and the area I was in was full-on Trump country. It felt as if the country was in for a demolition and I felt extremely nervous that Trump could win a second term. I sat at the piano to write a slow track to purge myself from the barrage of the delusional shady world of megalomaniac Donald Trump. What started as a Johnny Cash like hymn song quickly morphed in tempo and anger. I was dumbfounded at the spell he had casted on America and how at that time it felt his influence was a threat to the future of our country. I hoped there were enough of us to take him out office and his kind."

“Sunny Place for Shady People” and Good Morning, Americafollow Rothman’s 2017 debut album The Book of Law, which was praised by the LA Times for "restoring faith in music as a world to get lost in." Rothman has also produced Angel Olsen’s My Woman, Marissa Nadler’s For My Crimes, Kim Gordon’s No Home Record and the 2020 star-studded The Turning soundtrack featuring Mitski, Cherry Glazzer, Kali Uchis, Warpaint and Soccer Mommy. Additional collaborations include scoring Gucci’s recent ‘Aria’ 100th anniversary virtual fashion show - which Vanity Fair praised as a “killer soundtrack” - and the New York Times’ “Great Performers” series which featured Daniel Kaluuya, Timothee Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan.