Lawrence Rothman on Being Genre Fluid, Gender Fluid and Finding a New Home in the Americana World With Their Revealing New Album
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Lawrence Rothman has been knocking around the music scene for two decades, but not until this year would anyone have likely pegged them as primarily an Americana artist.
The L.A.-based performer didn’t necessarily come off as someone begging to set up a secondary base in Nashville — not with a list of collaborators or production clients that included Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Girl in Red, Empress Of, Alison Mosshart and members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Guns N’ Roses.
Or a career in soundtracks that included scoring movies by film-director spouse Floria Sigismondi like “The Runaways” and “The Turning.” Or a solo career as an indie rocker with an androgynous bent that incorporated taking on multiple personas, male and female.
But Rothman’s penchant for doing something that might be considered a bit more homespun became evident when they produced one of the best Americana records of recent years, Amanda Shires‘ 2022 release “Take It Like a Man,” as well as working on tracks by Margo Price, Brittney Spencer and Angel Olsen and enlisting Lucinda Williams as a duet partner.
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