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Josh Ritter
Rock / Indie / Folk Rock

...in the dark I thought I heard somebody call...



Moscow, Idaho
United States

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Last Login:  11/29/2009
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Member Since9/21/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.joshritter.com
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Daily concert recaps, set lists, photos, and exclusive behind-the-scenes video clips each day during the December Northeast USA Tour




The latest news from JoshRitter.com...

Josh Tours Europe with The Swell Season
Josh, solo, will tour Europe with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in February. Tix on sale now. More info here.

December Shows in the Northeast!
Heads up, east coasters. Details here.

The Wiltern & Radio City Music Hall with The Swell Season!
Josh and band are very special guests for three shows (The Wiltern Nov 18 and 19, Radio City Jan 19). More information here.

Josh is 1 on Paste's List of "Live from Paste" Video Performances
The intimate, solo acoustic rendition of "Temptation of Adam" is their favorite. See, hear, and share the video here.

2nd Cork Show Added at The Pavilion (16th Oct)
Due to popular demand! Tickets are on sale now, here.

Fall Ireland Tour with Love Canon String Band
Josh will be touring in Ireland this Fall, with special shows played in intimate venues with the Love Canon string band behind him. Click here for more info!

A Bedtime Story with Mary-Louise Parker
Check out this awesome video on Esquire.com of the award-winning actress reading a bedtime story, "To the Dogs or Whoever" by Josh Ritter. Click here.

Josh "Greens" His July Tour with CLIF/Green Notes
Learn what Josh and the band will be doing to contribute and how you can participate! Click here for more information.

UK Tour with Ray Lamontagne
Josh is special guest for Lamontagne's tour of the UK this September. Learn more here.

July Tour Announced, Horn Players Sought!
Full tour through mid and northwest USA, with a 'call to horns' in each town. See the full dates here on the myspace page, and to learn more about your chance to play onstage with Josh and band, click here.

Help Us Save Paste Magazine
Join Josh and fans in the campaign to save this peerless publication! Visit here, please.

Josh's Secret "The Artists Den" Concert Airing on Public Television
With extended footage, commercial-free, and in HD for the first time. More info here.

June 12: Josh Plays Central Park's SummerStage with The New York Pops
That's right, Josh and the band will play Central Park with The New York Pops orchestra behind them. This is a FREE show. More information here!

2-Disc Deluxe Edition (w/Free MP3) of 'Golden Age' Released
Original album reissued with 4 non-album tracks, gorgeous new packaging of rare photos, an essay by filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and featuring a bonus disc containing all songs re-recorded by Josh - solo acoustic. Click here!

Covering Springsteen (Video) on Bruce's Website
Part of Bruce's 'Hangin Out on E Street' series is Josh covering the Springsteen classic "The River" on BruceSpringsteen.net. See the performance and interview segment here.

Tour with Gomez, Spring Dates Announced
Tickets on sale! Check the full dates here on Josh's Myspace page...

Lisa Hannigan Will Be Special Guest in Cork
Tickets on sale now for this full orchestra show July 4th. More here.

Josh to Play San Fran's Noise Pop Feb. 26th
Solo at Great American Music Hall, but with a string quartet! Tix here.

Full Orchestra Concert in Cork, Ireland July 4th 2009
Live at The Marquee, tickets on sale 3rd December. More info here, tix here.

New Film 'Typeface' Features Josh Songs
More information here!

JoshRitter.com Gets New and Updated Pages
Now live: all new Gallery page with exclusive photos and more, 'The Band' page with fun bios and links added to the site, all new Music page and more....

New Video ("Real Long Distance") From the Band
Now online to see is a music video Josh and the band made... See it here.

New "Live at the 9:30 Club" Released
Eight songs taken from last Fall's sold-out Washington, DC show - compiled into an official release! Learn more here.

"Temptation of Adam" Video
Solo acoustic performance Josh did of this song during the Juan's Basement sessions now online. Youtube video is here.



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Josh's complete, official discography below. Stream complete albums, link to iTunes, Amazon, and buy cd's directly from joshritter.com


Live at the 9:30 Club
Released: April 19, 2008
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The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Released: August 21, 2007
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Live at The Record Exchange [EP]
Released: January 30, 2007
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In the Dark: Live at Vicar Street (CD & DVD)
Released: November 24, 2007
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The Animal Years
Released: March 20, 2006
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4 Songs Live [EP]
Released: February 22, 2005
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Hello Starling
Released: September 9, 2003
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Golden Age of Radio
Released: January 22, 2002
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Josh Ritter
Released: 1999
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InfluencesLeonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, Billy Collins, Mark Twain
Record LabelSony/Victor (USA), V2 (Int'l), Independent Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Dec 1 2009 8:00P
9:30 Club Washington, Washington DC
Dec 2 2009 8:00P
Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dec 3 2009 8:00P
Calvin Theatre Northampton, Massachusetts
Dec 4 2009 8:00P
University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont
Dec 5 2009 8:00P
Troy Music Hall Troy, New York
Dec 7 2009 8:00P
Bates College Lewiston, Maine
Jan 19 2010 8:00P
Radio City Music Hall - with The Swell Season New York, New York
Feb 1 2010 8:00P
Lucerna - with The Swell Season Prague
Feb 2 2010 8:00P
Semilasso - with The Swell Season Brno
Feb 4 2010 8:00P
Kaufleuten - with The Swell Season Zurich
Feb 5 2010 8:00P
Sala Estense - with The Swell Season Ferrara
Feb 6 2010 8:00P
Aud Parco Della Musica - with The Swell Season Rome
Feb 7 2010 8:00P
Conservatorio - with The Swell Season Milan
Feb 10 2010 8:00P
Museumsquartier, Hall E - with The Swell Season Vienna
Feb 12 2010 8:00P
Alter Schlachthof - with The Swell Season Dresden
Feb 13 2010 8:00P
Admiralspalast - with The Swell Season Berlin
Feb 14 2010 8:00P
Kampnagel - with The Swell Season Hamburg
Feb 16 2010 8:00P
DR Concert Hall Copenhagen
Feb 17 2010 8:00P
Tradgarn - with The Swell Season Gothenberg
Feb 18 2010 8:00P
Filadelfiakyrkan - with The Swell Season Stockholm
Feb 20 2010 8:00P
Kulttuuritalo - with The Swell Season Helsinki
Feb 21 2010 8:00P
Savoy Theater - with The Swell Season Dusseldorf
Feb 23 2010 8:00P
Paradiso - with The Swell Season Amsterdam
Feb 24 2010 8:00P
Ancienne Belgique - with The Swell Season Brussels
Feb 25 2010 8:00P
Bataclan - with The Swell Season Paris
Feb 27 2010 8:00P
Sala Apolo - with The Swell Season Barcelona
Feb 28 2010 8:00P
Sala Heineken - with The Swell Season Madrid

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THE RETURN TO DAVID LETTERMAN

Josh Ritter and the band returned to The Late Show with David Letterman on January 22nd, 2008. Watch their performance of "To the Dogs or Whoever" below, and be sure to pass it along...



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JUAN'S BASEMENT


Performed and filmed in July 2007 in "Juan's Basement" (literally), these videos are among the first live performances to be seen or heard of Josh and the band tackling the songs of The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter.

For more on Juan's Basement and their great work, visit here.


"Mind's Eye"

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see also: "To the Dogs or Whoever"

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THE FULL CONCERT ON FABCHANNEL.COM

Watch an entire Josh Ritter concert online, skip to songs, make your own playlist, embed on your myspace page and more!



{ 2007 CONCERT IN AMSTERDAM }




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Over the clatter of piano and strum of an electric guitar that opens his fourth studio album, Josh Ritter leaps into rapid-fire lyrics that reference Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane and Florence Nightingale, all of whom seem to be stuck together in the belly of a whale. As the follow-up to last year's critically-acclaimed album The Animal Years, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter is his most adventurous, fresh, and freewheeling work to date.

While The Animal Years was a meticulously crafted and stately paean, for Conquests the artist radically revamped his working methods and his sound. “I needed to be somebody different,” the singer says. “The air of gravitas around me was getting oppressive. For some reason it seemed like there was a premium being placed on earnestness and that can be pretty stifling. There was a lot of talk about true love and righteous indignation. I wanted to write about gunslingers and missile silos.” The result is an often raucous, occasionally dizzying affair, with pounding keyboards, strings, horns, and his new producer and long-time collaborator Sam Kassirer, leading the charge. About the recording conditions in the Maine farmhouse where the record was made, Ritter enthuses, “You should have seen it up there. It was January and twenty below. We had horns in the attic, we had strings in the barn, we had a gaggle of people shooting targets with bb guns in the woods. It was a full house and everyone was there to throw themselves at the music. There was no holding back.”

The artistic leaps Josh Ritter displays on Conquests are not without their stepping-stones, however. On a conceptual level, Paul McCartney’s Ram served as an ever-present reminder to enjoy the process of writing. Ritter was attracted to the free-spirited quality of the solo album McCartney made at his own farmhouse—amidst the Beatles’ tumultuous breakup: “It sounded like he had something to prove, but also like he didn’t really care. In terms of my favorite records, Ram is more about the philosophy. If this guy can do this after what he came through, then, okay, maybe I could try something like this too. It really loosened me up.” Stepping farther back, he cites Buddy Holly’s apocryphal "The Apartment Tapes" as a major influence. “A friend passed me Buddy Holly’s Apartment Tapes. The tapes are plain and genius. Buddy sang ‘Learning the Game’ and ‘That’s What they Say’ in his apartment in New York City and you can hear his wife bumping around in the kitchen and the whole thing feels clear but not simple. Those recordings feel like a Raymond Carver story. I listen to him and remember that it doesn’t have to be all nine-minute songs. That guy can get more across in a couplet than some people are lucky to learn in their whole life.”

Given the new lyrical and musical trails that he is blazing, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter proves that one can still cross any number of Rubicons all the while not taking themselves too seriously. Historic indeed.








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Jason Chinchen

Jason Chinchen



Dec 8 2009 9:15 PM

Just heard you on Pandora..Congrats? lol
take a listen to my new song sir!!
dguerrero

dguerrero



Dec 8 2009 4:08 PM

Released on Itunes and Amazon MP3 by Dennis Guerrero a Two Song Album in honor of Andrew Chang who died last may from Brain Cancer at the age of 32. Titled Me and Andy features a song called West Long Branch. All Profits will go to cancer research.
Crystina Maez

Crystina Maez



Dec 8 2009 3:06 PM


Keep music alive!!!
Tanya Lianne

Tanya Lianne



Dec 8 2009 9:47 AM

Hey Josh!
How are you?
I was an exchange student in Colvilee Washington and Moscow Idaho!
Thats so cool your from Moscow!
I wrote some cool songs there :)

Hows things going for you?

Id love to hear your thoughts on my music,
I have lots of new stuff and a different sound coming soon as well :)

Hope all is well
Love and Music
Tanya Lianne x
The Midweek Session Club

The Midweek Session Club



Dec 6 2009 8:04 PM

Peace & Love musiclovers!


We have a brand new song - Get it Right - out now.

Welcome!
Saintsaviour

Saintsaviour



Dec 4 2009 11:31 AM

Hello my darling....I just cowrote an album with Groove Armada, Nick Littlemore, She Keeps Bees and Bryan ferry!! My first single is out now, it's called 'I Wont Kneel' and you can get it here at Amazon for only 29p! http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Wont-Kneel-Groove-Armada/dp/B002TN0B5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1259011007&sr=1-1 PLEASE help me get into the top 40! I've got the bloody X Factor people to contend with!! xx oh yeah, and you can see me gyrating on a binbag in the video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te800CeEjBM
There Is No Sin in My Body

There Is No Sin in My Body



Dec 4 2009 4:05 AM

Arrggg...Jesus...the Maine show is sold out. Fine. NYC it is. :)
Ψॐ ZINAT PIRZADEH ॐΨ

Zinat Pirzadeh



Dec 2 2009 11:50 PM

Thanks, :)
Stephanie

Stephanie



Dec 2 2009 7:37 PM

Great Show last night in DC. The song "The Curse" positively breathetaking. I cannot wait for the new album!
Colette

Matos Nancy



Dec 2 2009 5:09 PM

Good morning,

Thank you for add.

Have a great week ahead!

defow.com

:)
dguerrero

dguerrero



Dec 1 2009 5:23 PM

Released on Itunes and Amazon MP3 by Dennis Guerrero a Two Song Album in honor of Andrew Chang who died last may from Brain Cancer at the age of 32. Titled Me and Andy features a song called West Long Branch. All Profits will go to cancer research.
Jetpack Comics

Jetpack Comics



Dec 1 2009 3:22 PM

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Saintsaviour

Saintsaviour



Dec 1 2009 8:11 AM

Hello my darling....I just cowrote an album with Groove Armada, Nick Littlemore, She Keeps Bees and Bryan ferry!! My first single is out now, it's called 'I Wont Kneel' and you can get it here at Amazon for only 29p! http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Wont-Kneel-Groove-Armada/dp/B002TN0B5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1259011007&sr=1-1 PLEASE help me get into the top 40! I've got the bloody X Factor people to contend with!! xx oh yeah, and you can see me gyrating on a binbag in the video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te800CeEjBM
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Dec 1 2009 12:45 AM

Now available: D.B. Rielly's new album, "Love Potions and Snake Oil" via iTunes and CD Baby.
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Nov 30 2009 5:52 PM

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Evan Fabiano Stallonte

Evan Fabiano Stallonte



Nov 29 2009 2:22 AM

IS TOTALLY STOAKED FOR YOUR SHOW ON THE 2ND
Shiregreen

Shiregreen



Nov 28 2009 2:01 PM

Hello to all my friends out there,
I've posted some new songs from my upcoming Live album "the toolhouse sessions". One of them is a very special one: "Part of my life" is written about and dedicated to our common friend Kris Kristofferson. In his very own style ... maybe you like it.
All the best from Germany to the rest of the world.
Shiregreen
Damascus Road

Damascus Road
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Nov 27 2009 1:48 PM

Hi, I have put up the new album on the myspace. I would really appreciate any feedback - warts an' all please.

Get a whisky, sit down in a warm low lit room press play and just let it seep in.

Cheers,
James
microbe

Kro shaya



Nov 26 2009 8:49 PM

Thx for the add Josh!!
sweet kiss from France

+M+
ALAN BROLLY

ALAN BROLLY



Nov 25 2009 10:01 PM

Hey Josh, Thanks for the add! Your songwriting is indeed amazing my friend. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Australia-AB
The Whiskey Limbs

The Whiskey Limbs



Nov 25 2009 9:26 PM

We're launching our new EP "Dazzling Mess" @ the academy 2 this Friday 27th November Doors 7pm €8 in, Support from Vodkopter and Urban Folk Project :-)
BARE WIRES

BARE WIRES



Nov 25 2009 7:15 PM

Josh......have a great Thanksgiving. It was great working with you the other night. You ruled.
gigio

gigio



Nov 24 2009 11:34 PM

Hoping for some gigs in south Italy...
59th minute

59th minute



Nov 24 2009 6:04 PM

SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR FREEDOM!!!! THANK OBAMA........JOIN THE MOVEMENT
dguerrero

dguerrero



Nov 24 2009 4:53 PM

Released on Itunes and Amazon MP3 by Dennis Guerrero a Two Song Album in honor of Andrew Chang who died last may from Brain Cancer at the age of 32. Titled Me and Andy features a song called West Long Branch. All Profits will go to cancer research.
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