American Songwriter bows song taken from “Nobody” EP
by Milwaukee-based artist compared to both Woody Guthrie, Weird Al.
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D.B. Rouse as photographed by Les Hall
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“The innately hilarious, wildly eccentric, Road
Warrior, D.B. Rouse’s latest single,
‘Mud,’ is now
available on American Songwriter.
What started as an idea for a children’s song, quickly grew into a reflective
genre-redefining track, in a strange turn of events and influence.”
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About | “Mud” by
D.B. Rouse
“I’m an avid reader.
I have up to three different books that I’m reading at any given time. I
was living in my van in the Kaibab National forest south of the Grand Canyon
where I work seasonally as a professional hobo musician. I was sitting in my
van during a rainstorm, watching everything outside turn to mud while reading a
book called, ‘The Lunatic’ by Anthony C. Winkler. In it there’s a
character who has, in a way, placed mud as a god-head. The words to my song
‘mud’ poured out of me. It wasn’t the kids song I was aiming to write. But I
didn’t try to change it.” – D.B Rouse
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D.B. Rouse –
In The Press
“Innately hilarious, wildly eccentric.” — American Songwriter
“A superb musician.” — Austin American-Statesman
“Calls to the work of Woody Guthrie and John Prine.”
— B-Sides and Badlands
“Like an old-school bar song given a new lick of
paint.” — For Folk’s Sake
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D.B. Rouse
“Nobody” EP
March 6th, 2020
(S/R)
Track Listing:
01. Nobody
02. Mud (STREAM)
03. Mutually Assured Destruction
04. Somnambulance Ride
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D.B. Rouse | About
“Kids love mud,” says D.B. Rouse. “I sat down to write a kid’s song about mud and this
thing came out instead.”
A constantly traveling troubadour, poet and novelist,
the Milwaukee-based migrant musician (he actually says home is wherever the van
is parked) will release a new four-song EP “Nobody”
on March 6th, 2020.
The first
single from “Nobody” is that
kid’s song that never was, “Mud,” which now plays as a chilling
number that crawled out of the desert after a rain storm.
It’s a darker turn for Rouse, who along with his guitar, affectionately nick-named
“Meal-Ticket,” has become known for whimsical songs like “About the Bite Missing From Your Sandwich”
from his early-2019
album Choices Were Made. Rouse is even sponsored by a kazoo
company, if you get the picture.
“Part of the gritty feel of this EP comes from the
tiny shack I recorded it in, with a rusted tin ceiling and cardboard boxes for
wall paper,” he explains. “It’s right next door to a noisy bar, so I could only
record very early in the morning after closing time.”
Influenced by the intimacy of tiny shacks, but also
vast expanses, Rouse has been
spending a lot of time in deserts the last few years.
“The Chihuahuan, the Mojave, and the Painted mostly,”
he says. He’s also seen plenty of his constant companion: the road.
“This EP’s title song ‘Nobody’ came to me on a November night in Wisconsin,” Rouse explains. “Driving alone through
snow flurries to my show, the hum of the wheels on the highway teased this song
out of my head. It’s an anthem of self-reliance... and also a plea.”
By the time Rouse
arrived at the venue that night, the song was complete, and he performed it.
Back in the shack, Rouse remembers, “I mostly stared out the window at the moon lit
sand and dirt, wondering when it was all going to turn to glass. I tried to
summon the ghosts of Townes Van Zandt,
Blaze Foley, Woody Guthrie, Zora Neale
Hurston and Randy Newman to help
me with this project.”
Ultimately, Rouse’s
innate humor peeks through: “But they were busy... and also Randy Newman isn’t dead.”
“Nobody,” the latest EP by D.B.
Rouse arrives on March 6th,
2020 preceded by the single “Mud,”
out now. D.B. Rouse is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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D.B. Rouse |
Live
03/01/2020: Terlingua, TX @ El Dorado High Sierra
03/08/2020: Terlingua, TX @ El Dorado High Sierra
03/15/2020: Terlingua, TX @ El Dorado High Sierra
03/20/2020: San Antonio, TX @ Folk Shit Up Festival
03/28/2020: Austin, TX @ Love Goat
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D.B. Rouse | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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