If tough knocks are the necessary path to meaningful music then D.L. Rossi is probably feeling he’s racked up enough now, and maybe it’s time for life to let him get on with the songwriting part of the equation. Having started in bands at a young age, joining in with his older brothers, D.L. Rossi decided to pursue a career in music, initially behind his drum set. The intervention of (successfully treated) cancer encouraged him to kick up his pace a bit, and in his late twenties he released a debut album which rather shocked his social circle