{"product_id":"josh-rouse-museums-and-women","title":"Josh Rouse - Museums and Women","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart songwriter, part street photographer, \u003cstrong\u003eJosh Rouse\u003c\/strong\u003e steps out on his new album as an itinerant documentarian capturing the drifters, dreamers, and passing strangers who slip in and out of our lives, and finding himself somewhere in the frame too. \u003cem\u003eMuseums and Women\u003c\/em\u003e is Rouse at his most hopeful and romantic, balancing casual poetry with wry humor across a collection of characters who are searching but never desperate, longing but never lonely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Nashville with longtime production partner \u003cstrong\u003eBrad Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eChuck Prophet\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHayes Carll\u003c\/strong\u003e), the album came together almost by accident resulting in loose, unplanned studio sessions with Rouse on guitar, Jones on bass, and \u003cstrong\u003eFred Eltringham\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eSheryl Crow\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Chicks\u003c\/strong\u003e) on drums, cut live and fresh, morning sessions followed by same-day overdubs. The title itself borrows from a \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Updike\u003c\/strong\u003e book Rouse has always loved, and it fits: these songs treat ordinary human connection and its absence like gallery-worthy art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the jangly optimism of opener \u003cem\u003eSpring\u003c\/em\u003e to the bossa nova drift of \u003cem\u003eSunday In The Country\u003c\/em\u003e to the rain-soaked wandering of \u003cem\u003eParnell Street\u003c\/em\u003e, Rouse's narrators move through the world in transit but never lost, mapping the space between the people we long for and the people we become. “There's always a woman involved,” Rouse says. “Love — or the search for it — is what ties them all together.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a fitting return for an artist \u003cstrong\u003eNPR\u003c\/strong\u003e has called one of contemporary music's most engaging singer-songwriters, whose career spans from his celebrated 1998 debut \u003cem\u003eDressed Up Like Nebraska\u003c\/em\u003e through the \u003cstrong\u003eGoya Award\u003c\/strong\u003e-winning \u003cem\u003eDo You Really Want To Be In Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Nearly three decades in, Rouse sounds unburdened and unhurried, chasing nothing but the joy of the work itself. \u003cem\u003eMuseums and Women\u003c\/em\u003e is proof that the most compelling art is often found in life's quietest, most passing moments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"Indie Exclusive Cream White Vinyl w\/ Autographed Cover","offer_id":58775826891097,"sku":"SDZ-49884","price":37.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58775826923865,"sku":"SDZ-49885","price":37.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58775826956633,"sku":"SDZ-49886","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Indie Exclusive CD w\/ Autographed Cover","offer_id":58775826989401,"sku":"SDZ-49887","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/0046397862_10.jpg?v=1785943256","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/josh-rouse-museums-and-women","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}