Rosine with Straight White Teeth

is exploring and cultivating a soundscape that relies on the emotive potential of acoustic instruments to showcase original songs. Its members, Forrest and Meredith Lane O’Connor, have each dedicated their lives to performing new music, and despite hailing from opposite sides of the country, their shared vision of what folk writing could look like a quarter-way into the 21st century prompted them to join forces in late 2025.

Individually, the members of Rosine have worked with a wide array of artists and performed in major venues throughout the country. A Nashville native and Tennessee State Mandolin Champion, Forrest has collaborated with Paul Simon, Zac Brown, Steve Martin & Martin Short, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck, and many others over the last 15 years. In 2015, he co-founded the O’Connor Band with his father, seven-time CMA Award-winning fiddler Mark O’Connor; Forrest wrote several songs, including the title track, for the O’Connor Band’s first album Coming Home, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Bluegrass Albums Chart and won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

It was during an O’Connor Band tour nearly a decade ago that Forrest first met Meredith in her small hometown of Enterprise, Oregon, where she would go on to develop a strong following thanks to her vocal and songwriting prowess as well as her collaborations with notable artists from the region, including Grammy Award-winner Zach Top andBillboard chart-toppers The Band Joseph. The town of Enterprise is nestled in the breathtaking Wallowa County wilderness, which served as a powerful inspiration for the development of Lane’s artistry and songwriting voice.

Forrest and Meredith began meeting up on cold nights last winter in their friend and collaborator (and fiddler extraordinaire) Eli Bishop’s small studio shed in Madison, TN, to arrange and prepare for a series of live music videos, which they filmed at Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Studio in 2025. They are currently recording their first album for Compass Records, collaborating extensively with recent Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Marcus Hummon (Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, The Chicks) to shape and hone a sound that combines memorable melodies with exploratory harmonies, instrumental virtuosity, and lyrical acuity.

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Straight White Teeth is the sprawling alternative music project of Patrick McGuire. Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2015 after the breakup of McGuire’s band Flashbulb Fires, Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to gauzy electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. With a wide collection of mostly self-produced and self-released songs that have only grown in output in recent years, Straight White Teeth is resigned to, and perhaps even a bit excited about, not knowing exactly what it is, where it's headed, and what it’s capable of as a vehicle for poetic music-making."

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