"Fleeting as Gold,

Dark as Midnight"

"To quote the curse of the Midnight Balladera, Ambur Rockell is as 'Fleeting as Gold & Dark as Midnight'. To follow Ambur's songstress career is a wild ride through the west coast of golden California, through the Texas Honky Tonks and over the backwood hills of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Though the idols on her records sing of leaving their country home for the neon city lights promise of fame- Ambur fled from the Hollywood "Heart Attack" to find peace in the hills.

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Rockell's earlier influences of punk and rockabilly from her hometown, Orange County, California set her growling onto the stages of the West Coast & Viva Las Vegas. After relocating briefly to Austin, Tx, Ambur fronted a Runaways Cover band as Cherie Curie in Queens of Noise. The act gained attention of local producer Danny B. Harvey of Head Cat & they collaborated on her debut releases, showcasing her duality in genres. The roaring rocker had turned into a blue yodeler in her love call "Heart Attack" & as soon as she laid the vocals down, she was off to Arkansas with the new track, which won best Music Video in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. In 2015 her full length release of "Prayer of a Honky Tonk Angel" set her up with a suitcase full of traveling songs to get her "from juke to  joint"- according to Ambur. It was her West Coast tour with Gretsch sponsored musician Al Dual, which provoked the Hillbilly Rockin' singles that dually joined her Punk roots, Grandpaws' Western Swing and it's moonshine ridden cousin, Bluegrass.

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Rockell went into seclusion in 2017 to channel her life tale, re-imagined in the psychedelic old west- The Midnight Balladera.  A mystic western story, written and illustrated with a song for every chapter. It was her “renaissance”. A sound & story was born that was all her own.

 

13 songs for the Midnight Balladera were recorded in Santa Ana, CA in 2022 and the musical video vignette's are currently in production. Miss Rockell has her sights set on an album release & a stage musical production. The Balladera currently resides in the hills of Eureka Springs, Arkansas,