THE CD SINGLE LUCKY DIP (5): Josh Rouse – Winter In The Hamptons

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Here’s one I think was only released as a single on CD

mp3: Josh Rouse – Winter In The Hamptons

I certainly can’t find any vinyl version listed on Discogs.  It dates from February 2005 and was the advance single from Josh Rouse‘s fifth studio album, Nashville, which itself looks as if it was only initially given a CD release, with a very limited vinyl edition finally coming out as a re-release in 2013.  I’m guessing that the mid-00s would be a time when vinyl was thought of as a dead format, which is probably why, when I started looking around again in 2007 after acquiring my first turntable that would enable mp3 conversions, I was able to pick up quite a few bargains.  It’s certainly not that way now.

Winter In The Hamptons is the only single from Josh Rouse to ‘crack’ the UK charts.  It did so for one week, entering at #100 on 19 February 2005.  The parent album was in the shops seven days later. It likewise had a one-week stay, albeit it came in at #66.

A little disappointingly, for a CD single, there was just one other song on offer:-

mp3: Josh Rouse – Under Cold Blue Stars (live in Nashville)

I appreciate his music is not the stuff which lends itself to the remix treatment, and it must have been the case that all the new material had been kept for the new album.  Under Cold Blue Stars dates from 2002, and this version was lifted from The Smooth Sounds of Josh Rouse a previously released live DVD.

JC

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