If you are having trouble viewing the email, click here.    Chris Allen Goodbye Girl And The Big Apple Circus is the debut album by Chris Allen, frontman of cult band Rosavelt. Pop music with an edge. Great songs, played with an urgency that makes you think that the end of the world is just a day away. Comparing is useless, but if we have to do it anyway we'll end up with Paul Westerberg, charismatic singer of The Replacements. Goodbye Girl And The Big Apple Circus is produced by Don Dixon, responsible for the first and best records by R.E.M. Officially Goodbye Girl is released in the first week of January, but if you transfer 15 euros to giro 4323408 t.n.v. F.P.M. Lomans, Amsterdam, you'll have it before the end of this year (don't forget to write us that you want Chris Allen and the adress to which we'll have to send the record). The perfect way to end the year on a high note. The Dam & Revolver When you buy the January/February issue of music- and movie magazine Revolver you'll get a cd for free, titled Rock & roll 2007. And on it, in the company of The Sadies, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brian Setzer, Los Straitjackets, Big Sandy and other good and noisy people you'll find The Dam, the band of guitar legend and former Outsider Ron Splinter. Revolver picked the song Subman, from their Rosa Records debut Beautiful Trash. Buy it! Revolver and Beautiful Trash by The Dam. De hits of 2006 Maybe it's nice in this last newsletter of 2006 to look back on the first year of Rosa Records. No, we won't bother you with all the wonderful reviews that our records got (although when you read everything that is written about Mike Gunther and Wheels On Fire, you'll wonder why those albums didn't sell a million copies), you're already familiar with those. Probably it's nicer to give you some information about what our biggest sellers were. Number one is Comin' Round Again by Kevn Kinney's S.T.A.R. By Rosa standards a big hit. And it keeps on selling. Next year Kinney will do a European tour. Seeing the man from Atlanta, Georgia live is really something else. A happening you won't forget easily. Number two on the Rosa 2006 charts is the ultimate Americana band, Bellwether from Minneapolis. The Stinging Nettles sold (and still sells) very well in Holland, but also in Germany and Spain. Number three is the recently released Patterson Hood-produced Hardwire Healing by The Dexateens, the pride of Alabama (and the pride of Rosa Records). This one also does very well abroad, especially in England and Spain. What we also found out in our first year is that it is very hard to sell just as many copies of our Dutch artists as we do of our American acts. The Dam, Denvis and Julia P, all three very special records we think, had to do with a lot less (though their are a handful of people in Spain who bought and loved Rosa's first release Makin' Up For Lost Time by our favorite lady Julia P). Hopefully the people of Holland get a little more chauvinistic in the future. Rosa Records in 2007 As you read above: Chris Allen is officially the first Rosa release in the new year. Very soon after that the great debut by Rootsclub, from Amsterdam, will see the light of day. You'll be surprised. Unfortunately the band I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House called it quits. So their record is skipped. In next month's newsletter we will inform you about the new records we plan to release. At the moment we're negotiating with some people we really love. And you will too. We're sure about that. : : : : : THE ROSA RECORDS CATALOGUE : : : : : RRF0601   Julia P :: Making Up For Lost Time RRB0602   Mike Gunther & His Restless Souls :: Burn It Down For The Nails RRB0603   Kevn Kinney's S.T.A.R :: Comin' Round Again. RRB0604   Bellwether :: The Stinging Nettles RRB0605   Wheels On Fire :: Wheels On Fire RRM0606   Denvis :: Comin' Home RRB0607   The Dam :: Beautiful Trash RRB0608   The Dexateens :: Hardwire Healing RRB0609   Chris Allen :: Goodbye Girl And The Big Apple Circus Bios and so on Find out more about Rosa cd's and Rosa acts at www.rosarecords.nl and www.myspace.com/rosarecords To avoid our emails being seen as junk, please add our "From" address to your Address Book. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send a mail to Robbie.