Country Singer Dani Rose Is Finding Her Lane in Taylor Sheridan’s TV Universe

With a new song she co-wrote featured on Dutton Ranch , and still riding high on the success of a Landman feature, the Nashville songwriter is seizing her moment Dani Rose knows a trend when she sees one. The Virginia native and Nashville songwriter built her career partly by staying hyper aware of where the winds in social media, streaming, and television will blow next. Rose, who had a song she co-wrote featured in Friday’s anticipated premiere of Dutton Ranch , says it’s all in the vibes.

“Before it wasn’t trendy for female country musicians to rise up,” Rose tells Rolling Stone , zeroing in on a dominant current storyline in country music. “Now, it is absolutely a trend. People want to dress like Lainey [Wilson], they want to dress like Ella [Langley], they want to look like Megan Moroney. It’s not just a person singing anymore, they’re like superheroes or action figures.” Rose herself is on an action-figure path in the Taylor Sheridan universe. She’s had songs already featured in Sheridan’s Yellowstone and Landman , and on the May 15th debut of Dutton Ranch on Paramount+, fans heard “What You Don’t Know,” a song she co-wrote with Lukas Nelson and Lily Meola. (“What You Don’t Know” is streaming now.) Rose has history with the Sheridan stable of gritty TV series. She had a hand in the most musically powerful moment of Landman ’s previous season, when the heart-wrenching “Touch and Go” — her collab with Drayton Farley and Sunny Sweeney — became a viral hit . Written at a workshop organized by Andrea von Foerster, the music supervisor for much of Sheridan’s television work, including Landman , Yellowstone , and Dutton Ranch , the song was synced with a gut-punch scene. “I remember Drayton saying, ‘I have this cool title, ‘Touch and Go,’’ and it reminding me of my parents and being at home and feeling like I’m still a little kid while my parents keep getting older,” Rose says. “It was so sad and depressing, and we were sitting there crying. I was like, ‘I wish I could turn back time in my dad’s eyes,’ and Sunny goes, ‘Yes! There we go!’” How Rose first entered Sheridan’s circle, however, was less of a business plan and more of a survival instinct.

Key points

• “Before it wasn’t trendy for female country musicians to rise up,” Rose tells Rolling Stone , zeroing in on a dominant current storyline in country music.
• “Now, it is absolutely a trend.
• People want to dress like Lainey [Wilson], they want to dress like Ella [Langley], they want to look like Megan Moroney.
• It’s not just a person singing anymore, they’re like superheroes or action figures.” Rose herself is on an action-figure path in the Taylor Sheridan universe.
• She’s had songs already featured in Sheridan’s Yellowstone and Landman , and on the May 15th debut of Dutton Ranch on Paramount+, fans heard “What You Don’t Know,” a song she co-wrote with Lukas Ne…