The danceable 'Winter In The Hamptons' spreads its love into 'Love Vibration', and the celebratory stylings of the latter are oddly fitting for the spiritual environment of the chapel.Īn uplifting end to a very stimulating show. Fortunately dissatisfaction is cut short by Rouse: "If you'd like to stand up for this last one be our guest".
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Suitably, the next one is '1972', the year Rouse and probably many of his fans were born.ĭespite calls for classics like ‘Sad Eyes’ Rouse chooses ‘Diggin’ In The Sand’, a folk song that is free from care in words and music and not in a good way. Most of the people here are almost forty too, but that's beside the point. "There's people here and I'm almost forty-years-old," Rouse discloses. "You didn't know I could play the drums too," jokes Rouse, not playing the drums, but sat on the kit’s stool unaccompanied. Influenced by the sun, they sound closer to tracks off ‘Valencia – EP’ and 'El Turista' than that of his early stuff. ‘Fine, Fine', a song dripping in bossa nova, represents the new album’s short and lively pop songs.
"Now that I'm an old man with kids my voice has dropped," reveals Rouse, which is funny because from his youthful countenance it seems his balls have only recently dropped. He tried 'Directions' last night and couldn't sing it. This is the end of their UK tour, Union Chapel is a lovely place for it to come to a close. An expected selection, after all, it is a Saturday: “I’m playing my guitar in some basement club a thousand miles away,” sings Rouse, “’Cause Saturday I’m on that stage I’m feeling down and blue.” Suburban Sweeheart Lyrics by Josh Rouse Got a gift, hesitate Never make the same. Live, Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations, a small band of musicians, showcase their talent more clearly than when recorded with high production values.Īppropriately, early in the set list is ‘Saturday’ from 2005’s ‘Nashville’. It was an honor opening for Josh Rouse and a special thanks to all of the Pabst Theater Group staff who are all. Cover of the Josh Rouse tune Suburban Sweetheart I did on logic. While Josh may never approach the commercial appeal and legendary status of Neil, there’s no record Young has released since Josh’s 1998 debut Dressed Up Like Nebraska in 1998 that I’d rather listen to than one of Rouse’s.Now that's something you don't see every day: Xema Fuertes is playing kick drum and hi-hat with his feet while his hands switch from guitar to banjo. On “New Young” from the current record, Rouse laments of a dream about Neil Young and closes with the line “I’ll never be that good, you know.” Well, to this listener, nothing could be further from the truth.
Only 43 years old with a dozen great records under his belt, Josh Roush still remains to me one of the most solid singer-songwriters working today. He also encouraged the crowd to get off their feet remarking that this was the lone venue of the tour that even had seats.įurther last-night antics also included (1) drummer Pisapia singing lead on “Hollywood Bass Player”, (2) opening act Walter Martin (bass player for indie band, The Walkman) fronting the band for the title track of his new adult-friendly children’s record, and (3) Rouse leaving the stage to frolic among the crowd while singing the lively “Love Vibration.” In fact, at one point, Josh gave us one of those loose “last night of the tour” statements in which he truthfully told us they would be playing more songs than usual. Opening the show with the calendar-fitting “Saturday,” Rouse wove a scattering of friendly faves in and around some of the latest record’s melancholy tunes. While the new Embers record finds Rouse sharing his not always pleasant feelings about himself, the approaching middle age singer-songwriter was in a joyful high-spirited mood throughout the evening. Rounding out the quartet was the slick guitarist from Spain, Xema Fuertes, who played with Josh last time round. Hags, who along with drummer Marc Pisapia, were (and I guess still are) members of Nashville pop band, Joe, Marc’s Brother as well as longtime Rouse bandmates.
One change to the band this time was Nashvillian James Haggerty’s return on bass. On the final night of a brief US tour to promote his latest release, The Embers of Time, Rouse returned home to the Third & Lindsley stage where he last appeared two years ago. Despite the fact that he now lives in Spain, Josh Rouse will forever be a Music City resident in our hearts.
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