Rouse's 2003 soft-rock concept album 1972 bared his Bread fetish Nashville returns to the 80s pop undercurrents that emerged on his 2002 breakthrough, Under Cold Blue Stars. His latest is his second titular nod to Music City, USA- 2000's Home was recorded shortly after Rouse moved there- and arrives following the itinerant Nebraska native's move to Spain, where fragile Tweedy/Adams vocals are presumably less ubiquitous. On each of the three albums since his alt-country debut, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, singer/songwriter Josh Rouse has fashioned urbane light-pop window treatments for yuppie denizens of the new Nashville. The city of Nashville has long since morphed from countrypolitan to Cosmopolitan, with ritzy suburbs named Brentwood, nightlife beyond the Bluebird Café, and Tim McGraw/Nelly collabs. Hell, The Nashville Network itself is no more: TNN became Spike, which is good for watching Deep Space Nine reruns while playing hooky in a Dayquil daze but little else. The Nashville of The Nashville Network is no more.
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