If, like me, you crave mince pies as soon as summer finishes, the gift of a Christmas album at the start of November is balm to the autumn soul. The fact it’s as perky and filler-free as Josh Rouse’s holiday debut is…
Josh Rouse proved to be the perfect antidote to a cold, wet Wednesday April evening. His delivery and vocal style is full of soul and warmth and he likes to make gentle jokes in-between songs, like when telling the audience…
Josh Rouse has gone out on a ledge for his new album, Love In The Modern Age. At the heart of it he’s always been a man with a guitar, yet on his latest the guitar has been set aside…
Josh Rouse approached The Embers of Time, his 11th studio album, at something of a turning point. Facing a mid-life crisis after ten years as an ex-pat in his adopted Spanish homeland coupled with the strains of raising a young…
The list grows and grows every year. There are even some legitimate concerns that Record Store Day may eat itself. But we’re going to worry about that later. For now, the clock is ticking down until the queues start forming…
Josh Rouse has always been a man whose music was of a particular place – if not necessarily of one particular place. Early albums like Dressed Up Like Nebraska and Home spoke of the American mid-west where he was born.…
