Fanatic Promotion: December 2018

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

D.B. Rouse sets sights on becoming “the best damn hobo musician in the world” with upcoming “Choices Were Made,” out Feb 1st.

Milwaukee-based songwriter, former cruise ship singer, goat farmer, cabana man’s new “Get My Shit Together” single streaming now.

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D.B. Rouse as photographed by Darin Dubinsky

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“A superb musician.” — Austin American-Statesman

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“There are moments when he approaches the sounds so often attributed to folksy storytellers, but... He’s a singer-songwriter whose work pointedly defies characterization,” says The Southern Sounding in its premiere coverage of “Get My Shit Together” by D.B. Rouse! Listen here or at the link below!

[LISTEN | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/DBRouse-GetMyShitTogether

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“Definitely comedic, reminiscent of some of our favorite Weird Al favorites,” says Imperfect Fifth about the hilarious music video for “About The Bite Missing From Your Sandwich” by D.B. Rouse. Watch it here or at the link below!

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCovQQdbXA

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D.B. Rouse is America’s least-earnest traveling troubadour.

Offering up all the sincerity, none of the pretense, Rouse is armed with a guitar (nicknamed “Meal-Ticket”) and a kazoo. In fact, he is sponsored by Kazoobie Kazoos, natch. A poet with an absurd sense of humor, the Milwaukee-based former cruise ship lounge singer, goat farmer, and cabana man, will release a new album Choices Were Made on February 1^st.

Hear the album’s first single “Get My Shit Together,” streaming now.

Recently, one choice made resulted in Rouse becoming yet another musician robbed of his gear while on tour. Rouse’s experience contains an unusual fact, however: The gear was stolen while Rouse was in the vehicle it was stolen from. With his van doors unlocked due to Rouse and his wife sleeping off a night of drinking in the back, thieves quietly worked in the front, absconding with Rouse’s laptop and most of his instruments.

In other words, it’s not all fun and kazoos.

“It could have been so much worse,” Rouse admits. “What if we had woken up? What if they were armed? I was ready to quit,” he confesses. “Ready to quit touring, quit music, quit everything.”

Instead, after the insurance company refused to cover the cost of replacement, Rouse reached out to his fans. Owing to the relationships Rouse has built through that unique quality of pretense-free sincerity and humor, he was able to replace the gear. Even so, he did quit one thing: Drinking. And with that, Rouse continues the pursuit of his dream to be “the best damn hobo musician in the world.”

Choices Were Made by D.B. Rouse is out on February 1^st, 2019, preceded by the single “Get My Shit Together,” out now.

D.B. Rouse is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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