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Josh Rouse

It's a slightly worrying fact that, the older I get, the more interested I become in country music. I'm 22, and already I like Josh Rouse. But what's not to like? His album 1972 is packed with future classics, from the bouncy Love Vibration to the mournful Sparrows Over Birmingham. Where Ryan Adams is, to those of us outside Tennessee at least, the popular face of modern country music, people like Josh Rouse are the ones who are maintaining the high standards of the genre.
 

 
1972 is Rouse's fourth album - Dressed Up Like Nebraska was his debut, in 1998, and is just as essential is his more recent, well-received work. It is 1972 that has seen him reach a wider audience, but such recognition was long overdue by that point.

Click on the 'Buy Josh Rouse records' link to the left for a series of audio clips. And then buy some records.