In late 2005 it was announced he'd have a new album out in early 2006, and some tour dates were popping up, which included this date in Chicago, too which Amy asked, "do you want to go with me?" On the outside, I was "yeah, sure, sounds like fun," while on the inside my lacking confidence and timid self was more like, "is something happening here?" Of course, nothing was happening, because I never indicated interest as such. Thanks to Amy, I got into his albums 1972 and Nashville. I've always been more a band appreciator, so singer/songwriters like Rouse were not always on my radar. She introduced me to Kanye West, thanks to a loud sing-along of "Gold Digger" in her VW Beetle along with several of her female friends on our way to one of the nicer bars in town I never hung out in. She was a grown-up compared to me, owning a house and having a real job, and liked to go to the Short North galleries that featured local artists, something I wanted to do, but wasn't finding the time to do so. We weren't best friends or dating, just a casual "hey, let's hang soon" sort of thing, usually with a group of people.
I went with a girl named Amy (not her real name), who I had met through the music scene here in Columbus and we hung out a bit. Here's the part, in dusting off my memories of this trip, that are putting my brain through a bit of a workout. I managed to do the tourist thing and grab a Chicago Dog at a place around the corner from the venue, but that was the extent of the sightseeing as we had gigs the day before and after that required lots of driving. I had actually been to Chicago once before, briefly in 2003 to play a venue called The Note with my band The Stepford Five and our friends Miranda Sound, along with a pair of Chicago bands (Woolworthy and Light FM), on a short tour put together by. I was in my twenties, in a band, and going to see live music was something I did almost any weekend.
That sentence, by itself, is completely average and mundane. to take in a concert by Josh Rouse at the Black Orchid. (Note: this was going to be just a straight-up concert review, but then it got derailed by my brain)īack in 2006 I traveled to Chicago, IL.
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