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.
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...
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.
The "best of" Josh Ritter videos available online (click above), for all to see, share, comment and post on your pages. Official music videos, TV appearances, concert clips and more. Become a subscriber!
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.
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
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 :-)
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Saw you perform at the Wiltern, Nov 19th. You were great. I am off to buy some CDs. Loved your performance 'To the Dogs or Whoever'! Hope to see you perform again next time that you are out here.
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