{"product_id":"museums-and-women-lp","title":"PREORDER: Museums and Women - LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis item is available for preorder. \u003cstrong\u003eAll items in your cart will ship on or around October 23rd, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e This date is subject to change due to reasons beyond our control, and you may receive this product after its official release date. If you would like to receive other items sooner, please place two separate orders.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eOctober 23rd, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecord Label: \u003c\/strong\u003eNew West Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat + Color:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12\" Vinyl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSpring\u003cbr\u003eJanuary Sky\u003cbr\u003eParnell Street\u003cbr\u003eShort-Order Cook\u003cbr\u003eWanderlust\u003cbr\u003eMuseums and Women\u003cbr\u003eThings Are Looking Up\u003cbr\u003eSunday in the Country\u003cbr\u003eOther Side of the Tracks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRed Apple Road\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart songwriter, part street photographer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJosh Rouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e steps out on his new album as an itinerant documentarian capturing the drifters, dreamers, and passing strangers who slip in and out of our lives, and finding himself somewhere in the frame too. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMuseums and Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e i\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003es Rouse at his most hopeful and romantic, balancing casual poetry with wry humor across a collection of characters who are searching but never desperate, longing but never lonely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded in Nashville with longtime production partner Brad Jones (Chuck Prophet, Hayes Carll), the album came together almost by accident, resulting in loose, unplanned studio sessions with Rouse on guitar, Jones on bass, and Fred Eltringham (Sheryl Crow, The Chicks) on drums, cut live and fresh, morning sessions followed by same-day overdubs. The title itself borrows from a John Updike book Rouse has always loved, and it fits: these songs treat ordinary human connection and its absence like gallery-worthy art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the jangly optimism of opener \"Spring\" to the bossa nova drift of \"Sunday In The Country\" to the rain-soaked wandering of \"Parnell Street,\" Rouse's narrators move through the world in transit but never lost, mapping the space between the people we long for and the people we become. \"There's always a woman involved,\" Rouse says. \"Love — or the search for it — is what ties them all together.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's a fitting return for an artist NPR has called one of contemporary music's most engaging singer-songwriters, whose career spans from his celebrated 1998 debut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDressed Up Like Nebraska\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e through the Goya Award-winning \"Do You Really Want To Be In Love.\" Nearly three decades in, Rouse sounds unburdened and unhurried, chasing nothing but the joy of the work itself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMuseums and Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is proof that the most compelling art is often found in life's quietest, most passing moments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-de40c0dc-7fff-e38f-72ca-abc8aca95dbf\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: product images are digital mockups. 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