No one can accuse Josh Rouse of playing it safe. Not only is his new album, El Turista, overflowing with jazzy rhythms and Spanish lyrics, but the disc opens with the track, “Bienvenido,” which has no ...

I had never heard of him before – had very little hope that anyone else in South Africa had. His gentle, rootsy, sweetly melodic American folk songs spoke of love, life and death and everything ...

Josh Rouse’s latest album deflects most listeners’ first complaint with its title. Born in the Midwest, Rouse married a Spanish woman and moved to Valencia five years ago. Post-move efforts like ...