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While inspired by his newfound life in Valencia, Spain, singer-songwriter Josh Rouse created his eighth full-length studio effort, now set for an early 2010 release.
El Turista thus continues where 2007’s Country Mouse City House left off. It contains songs first popularized by Bola de Nieve, a composer often compared to Louis Armstrong, and folk music stylings from Cuba, Brazil, Spain and Venezuela.
“I know it’s kind of funny, this Midwestern guy doing Brazilian songs in Spanish,” the Nebraska native said in a statement. And so he balances the album with a dash of his own Midwestern roots, primarily shown in his own interpretation of “Cotton Eye Joe.”
El Turista is out Feb. 16 through Bedroom Classics/Nettwerk, though an EP of its first single, “Valencia,” is out now through iTunes.
Tracklist:
1. Bienvenido
2. Duerme
3. Lemon Tree
4. Sweet Elaine
5. Mesie Julian
6. I Will Live On Islands
7. Valencia
8. Cotton Eye Joe
9. Las Voces
10. Don’t Act Tough
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Listen sing Josh Rouse in spanish hurts a little bit (maybe the same that reading me in english), may be funny on shows, but i think is not enouhg
Listen to Josh Rouse singing in Spanish stings and hurts a little, perhaps the same as reading my English. It can be fun for a concert or an album of b-sides but I think it lacks some points to be a good album.
The good songs like "i will live on island" or the version of Cotton Eyed Joe. Also positive Cuban touch "Las voces" where it's allowed his immersion in the spanish language.
Maybe it's because i was waitting for another thing, maybe because the sun of Valencia but i hope we will return to Nebraska same day...