Some people might have thought it was crazy doing what Whitney Rose did in 2015—that is, to uproot herself and more or less blindly relocate to Austin. “I was mostly excited,” she recalls of the move. “Obviously, I was also intimidated, because I had no idea what I was getting into. I had never even been to Austin as a visitor. I had never even been to Texas. So that was a little daunting.” It’s been a long journey for an artist who grew up on the far-northern Prince Edward Island, raised by a single mother and her grandparents in a household where Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash became her prime influences. Rose didn’t get her first guitar until her 27th birthday, but kindled by her expanding musical interests, the residue of a failed relationship, and a move to Toronto, her artistic ambitions quickly took flight. Her three albums to date—a 2012 self-titled debut, 2015‘s Heartbreaker of the Year and Rule 62 , released this past Octo...