“He showed me that you don’t have to be sappy or sentimental with it, that you can be yourself and put your own stamp on the tradition.” “It was Nick that opened my eyes to how great holiday records could actually be,” says Rouse. Q called his breakout release, 1972, "the most intimate record of the year," while Rolling Stone dubbed his follow-up, Nashville, "a landmark album," and EW described 2013’s The Happiness Waltz as "a big contender for Rouse's best work." In 2014, Rouse won a Goya Award (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) for his song "Do You Really Want To Be In Love”, and in 2015, he returned with The Embers of Time, an album which landed him yet more critical praise alongside tour dates with legendary songwriter Nick Lowe. Hailed by NPR as “one of contemporary music’s most engaging singer-songwriters,” Rouse first emerged in 1998 with Dressed Up Like Nebraska, a stunning debut that Billboard proclaimed to be a “dark horse gem.” Over the next twenty years, Rouse would go on to release eleven more critically acclaimed albums, honing in on a warm, ruminative sound that fused elements of vintage folk, rock, and pop with modern insight and observation. “I wanted to write something that folks hadn’t heard before, something they could listen to year-round.” “I decided that if I was going to make a holiday record, I didn’t want to load it up with sleigh bells and choirs and sing the same old standards that everybody else has already sung,” says Rouse. The result is a holiday record built for the long haul, a wholesome, whip smart collection that’s guaranteed to stay with you well after the snow has melted and all the decorations have come down. The arrangements are eclectic and intoxicating, drawing equal influence from Rouse’s Midwestern childhood and his decade-and-a-half spent living in Spain, and the performances here are sparkling and fizzy to match, blending jazz sophistication with rootsy sincerity and sly crooner charm. Nick in a suit and sunglasses there’s a lonely ex-pat waiting by the mailbox for cards that never seem to come. For every playful portrait of giddy lovers on New Year’s Eve, there’s a stranded traveler spending Christmas alone for every slick St. Written off-and-on over the course of the last ten years, the record is joyful and festive of course, but, much like the holiday season itself, it’s also laced with an undercurrent of longing and melancholy. It makes sense, then, that The Holiday Sounds of Josh Rouse isn’t your typical yuletide collection. “Growing up, I remember hearing Vince Guaraldi and Bing Crosby and all the staples everybody listens to each winter, but I never collected Christmas music or anything like that.”
“I was never a holiday record kind of guy,” he laughs. Thank you for helping to keep everyone safe.Josh Rouse never planned on making a holiday record. Patrons must have a completed COVID-19 vaccination card or a photo of their card, with their final dose at least fourteen days prior to the event, or a negative COVID-19 test result from 72 hours or less prior to the event.
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This show will be an intimate solo performance by Josh Rouse.Įffective immediately, all performances at the Dakota will require either proof of a full course of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the prior 72 hours. The end result, Love In the Modern Age, is an album that still bears Rouse’s distinct fingerprints, even as it pushes his limits and forges a bold new chapter more than 20 years into his celebrated career. Rouse traded in his trusty acoustic guitar for a synthesizer, a move that quickly pulled him in a slew of exciting, unexpected directions.
Praised for his “spare and easy sounding guitar songs” by NPR, Rouse first emerged in 1998 with his debut album, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, which Billboard called a “dark horse gem.” Over the next two decades, he released a steady stream of critically lauded records that solidified his status as one of his generation’s most acclaimed songwriters. For those with tickets to a rescheduled show, your existing tickets have automatically been transferred to the new date. Please note: this is a rescheduled performance originally set for June 12, 2021. "a talent to outrank Ryan Adams or Conor Oberst"
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