Songfacts®:

• "Rosalee" is Molly Tuttle's atmospheric murder ballad set on a no-name road at Chickasaw Bluff in Tennessee. It spins the haunting tale of Rosalee, a bootlegger's daughter with honeyed braids and raven eyes, an image that could have wandered out of "Frankie And Johnny" territory, where jealousy and gunpowder collide in equally stark storytelling.
  
  Enter Bill O'Brian, a Prohibition deputy who enforces the law with brutal efficiency and falls disastrously in love with Rosalee. As his obsession escalates into threats and tyranny, the song climaxes in the classic folk tradition: O'Brian ends up dead, shot by a mysterious hand. No weapon is recovered, no culprit named, leaving us to do what murder ballads do best and quietly suspect everyone.
• Tuttle recorded "Rosalee" for her fifth album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine. While the record embraces a broader sonic palette, blending pop, country, rock, and bluegrass, the song stays true to the storytelling heart of a traditional murder ballad, preserving acoustic textures and narrative depth even as production leans slightly modern.
• Tuttle started the song with regular Lainey Wilson songwriting partner Trannie Anderson and Paul Sikes ("Jimmie Allen's "Make Me Want To," Matt Stell's "Everywhere But On"), before finishing it with her boyfriend Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show.
  
  "The vibe was so cool, but I wanted more of an edge to it," she told The Sun. "So, Ketch and I messed around with the lyrics and turned it into a murder ballad, which has become a theme for me. I always have one song where someone gets murdered."