| Product Summary | | Label: Ryko Distribution | | UPC: 00635981005920 | | Release Date: 2/19/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60518222 | | Item#: M6DRCJ | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Twilight ~ Josh Rouse |  | | 2. Nothing Gives Me Pleasure ~ Josh Rouse | | | 3. Miracle ~ Josh Rouse | | | 4. Christmas With Jesus ~ Josh Rouse | | | 5. Under Cold Blue Stars ~ Josh Rouse | | | 6. Very Stories ~ Josh Rouse | | | 7. Feeling No Pain ~ Josh Rouse | | | 8. Ears To The Ground ~ Josh Rouse | | | 9. Summer Kitchen Ballad ~ Josh Rouse | | | 10. Women And Men ~ Josh Rouse | | | 11. Whole Night Throught, The ~ Josh Rouse | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Josh Rouse (vocals, guitar); Pat Sansone (guitar, vibraphone, keyboards, bass, percussion); Roger Moutenot (guitar, keyboards); David Henry (cello); Dennis Cronin (trumpet); Mike Grimes (bass); Darren Jesse, David Gehrke, Marc Pisapia (drums); Tony Miracle, Kip Kubin (programming); Curt Perkins (samples). | | Recorded at True Tone Studios & Woodland Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. | | Josh Rouse has a magic touch with a pop melody, and he also writes songs that are full of personal feeling, evocative detail, and hauntingly familiar narratives. It's the sort of combination that sticks with listeners and helps make UNDER COLD BLUE STARS one of Rouse's most satisfying efforts. The album still has much of the stark, bittersweet timbre of the artist's first albums, but there is a bit more sonic and thematic variety here, showing a marked development in Rouse's art. | | The singer-songwriter was based in Nashville at the time he recorded UNDER COLD BLUE STARS, and the album is still roots-conscious enough to reflect its native turf. But Rouse's take on country and folk is much more akin to genre-bending bands like Lambchop than to Music Row veterans, and the layered production and inviting arrangements illustrate that difference. But, as always, it is Rouse's fine songwriting that sustains the effort, and makes it worthy of attention. |
| | Artist Overview | | Nebraska-born singer-songwriter Josh Rouse, who started his recording career after moving to Nashville, began in an organic, rootsy vein. By the time of his third album, UNDER COLD BLUE STARS, he had graduated to a more pop-oriented approach with increasingly sophisticated production. His 2003 release, 1972, upped the ante even further by touching on both Rouse's '70s pop and soul roots. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/19/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 59 | | Label : Slow River/Rykodisc | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00635981005920 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (3/02, pp.134-136)
- 8 out of 10 - "...a wavering, pout sort of falsetto....music that strikes the perfect balance between the pop-savvy shuffle...and...lush loveliness..."Q (2/02, p.113)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Quietly thrilling..." Uncut (1/03, p.96)
- Ranked #48 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" - "Melancholic, compelling and seamless..." Alternative Press (3/02, p.84)
- 8 out of 10 - "...Lyrically keen and immediately catchy..." Mojo (Publisher)
(3/02, p.101)
- "From the lovelorn, horn-embellished country-pop he's grown so adept at, Rouse builds a homespun concept album: an 11-song narrative about the ups'n'downs of married life in '50s America..." |
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