On the business side, he's marching to his own drummer.
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"She called me and said, 'I love "1972," ' and I was like, 'I was listening to you when I was 16 - and you're married to Paul Simon!' " Rouse told the paper. In 2004, the Australian newspaper The (Melbourne) Age noted Rouse was going to have dinner with Edie Brickell, the "What I Am" singer who is married to Paul Simon.
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Though he has yet to have a breakthrough single in the United States, his music has appeared in the movie "Vanilla Sky" and TV shows including "Dawson's Creek" and "Party of Five." "There's an openness to the sound that I think I got from moving to, say, a big city in California to a Wyoming town of five or six hundred." "It really shaped me as a person," he told the Toronto Sun. Rouse was born in Nebraska and grew up around the West and the South. The 36-year-old singer's willingness to follow several paths may have come from moving around as a child. Aside from Rouse's rough, intimate voice, that album sounds little like 2003's "1972," which features songs such as "Love Vibration" and "Comeback (Light Therapy)" and has a funkier, more upbeat production to match.
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Listeners to his first album, 1998's "Dressed Up Like Nebraska," may have lumped him into the alt-country movement.