Roots pop singer/songwriter Josh Rouseis a melodic folk/ soft rocksinger. He was born in 1972 in Nebraska, living in California, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Georgia, and Arizona during the years to follow; obsessed as a teen with British cult favorites like The Smithsand The Cure, he learned to play guitar from his uncle and wrote his first song at 18. Signing to the Rykodisc subsidiary Slow River, in 1998, Rouse issued his debut album, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, to widespread critical acclaim; upon settling in Nashville, he was befriended by Kurt Wagner, frontman of the endlessly brilliant chamber countrygroup Lambchop, and in the fall of 1999, the two singers/songwritersissued a collaborative EP, Chester. Rouse's second solo LP, Home, appeared the following spring and was followed by Under the Cold Blue Starsin 2002. For his next record Rouse hooked up with producer Brad Jonesand the resulting album in 2003, 1972, was both a homage to the soft rock sounds of Rouse's youth and an opening up and deepening of his sound.
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Under the cold blues stars you would just stroll around the yard that's what happens to dreams when the life strains and the child lays in youÂ…
When you got old you played guitar in a little town, your favorite barÂ…just blowing steam now the lights fade and everyone's paid to see youÂ…
So did the farm steal your soul when the cornfields won't grow its time to leave, now the heart bleeds and the family leans on youÂ…
You were under the cold blue stars in another town your favorite bar that's what happens to dreams when the life strains and the child lays in youÂ…