{{Short description|American country music duo}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- For groups; see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Kennedy Rose | image = | background = group_or_band | origin = United States | genre = Country | years_active = 1989-1994 | label = I.R.S. Records | spinoff_of = Calamity Jane | past_members = Mary Ann Kennedy<br />Pam Rose }} '''Kennedy Rose''' was an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose. Both members of the duo previously recorded in the all-women band Calamity Jane on Columbia Records in the 1980s.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|year=2008|pages=74|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref> After splitting from the band, Kennedy and Rose founded the duo and signed to I.R.S. Records. As Kennedy Rose, they released two albums for the label: ''hai ku'' in 1989 and ''Walk the Line'' in 1994.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |author=Jason Ankeny |title=Kennedy Rose biography |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1678/biography|pure_url=yes}} |work=Allmusic |accessdate=2009-10-07}}</ref> Following the release of ''hai ku'', the duo toured with Sting.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kennedy Rose stretches limits of country music traditions |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF6120E0B8590A2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=Daily News of Los Angeles |date=1991-02-05 |accessdate=2009-10-07}}</ref> Kennedy and Rose have also written hit singles for Restless Heart ("I'll Still Be Loving You"), Lee Greenwood ("Ring on her Finger, Time on Her Hands", later covered by Reba McEntire), Patty Loveless ("You Will") and Martina McBride ("Safe in the Arms of Love", also recorded by Baillie and the Boys and Michelle Wright).<ref name="allmusic"/>

==Discography==

===Albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! style="width:10em;"| Title ! style="width:20em;"| Details |- ! scope="row"|''hai ku'' | * Release date: 1990 * Label: I.R.S. Records |- ! scope="row"|''Walk the Line'' | * Release date: February 8, 1994 * Label: I.R.S. Records |}

===Singles=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! Year ! style="width:10em;"| Single ! Album |- |rowspan=2|1990 ! scope="row"| "Love Like This"<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-05-26.pdf | title=Previews: Singles | journal=Music & Media | pages=20 | date=May 26, 1990}}</ref> | align="left" rowspan="2"| ''hai ku'' |- ! scope="row"| "The Only Chain" |}

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