While any long-running catalog is going to have its outliers, Josh Rouse’s impressive body of work has largely provided listeners with a casual companion for life’s most lived-in moments. Rouse’s easygoing melodies have always felt like the ideal accompaniment for […]
There was a happy healthy buzz. It was the second night of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and a lot was on offer; choices had to be made. There were punk heroes The Stranglers in the marquee for a start, […]
Originally hailing from rural Nebraska, Josh Rouse has carved out a distinguished career (ten albums since 1998) as a quality musician and songwriter. His new LP The Embers of Time was released this April via Yep Roc Records. “It’s my […]
Originally hailing from rural Nebraska, Josh Rouse has carved out a distinguished career (ten albums since 1998) as a quality musician and songwriter. His new LP The Embers of Time was released this April via Yep Roc Records. “It’s my […]
On Under Cold Blue Stars, Josh Rouse’s third album, he became a truly accomplished songwriter – the kind who helps us see in the dark, illuminating the hidden corners of everyday life, and of the psyche. As the old cliché says, time flies. […]
Josh Rouse began his musical career by moving from Nebraska to Nashville. Then he moved from Nashville to Spain, commemorating the change with a farewell album to one place (2005’s Nashville) and a postcard album from the other (2006’s Subtitulo). […]
Josh Rouse can’t be mistaken for Tom Waits or Wayne Coyne. His lyrics approach ordinary experiences with ordinary language. His voice, even in falsetto, retains the cautious huskiness of a man trying not to wake his neighbors. He’s not likely […]
Since his 1998 debut Dressed Up Like Nebraska, Josh Rouse’s vigilantly understated music has adorned the backgrounds of TV shows such as “Ed” and “Dawson’s Creek”, and Cameron Crowe arranged a scene in the film Vanilla Sky as if to […]
Josh Rouse is a poet of the pause, the conversational moment of silence that often transmits clearer information than the exchange of words surrounding it. His subtlety and understatement augment the noise crackling across the quiet between people. On his […]
While not necessarily triggering any specific imagery, the album title says it all. Though I’m still unsure of exactly what the intended conveyance is, it’s nonetheless one hell of a metaphor. And one hell of a lyric. And it’s just […]
