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Josh Ritter bounded onto the Birchmere stage Sunday night alone and wearing a striped, cream-colored, three-button suit and an open-collar dress shirt. Before performing a note, the ruddy-bearded ...
Josh Ritter’s new album, “Spectral Lines,” was released April 28 and dedicated to the memory of his mother. He will share the new music Tuesday at Charlottesville’s Jefferson Theater.
In Josh Ritter's first novel, Bright's Passage, a World War I soldier goes home to West Virginia and must protect himself and his infant son. The book contains Ritter's trademark combination of ...
Josh Ritter came full circle when his earliest musical influence, Bob Dylan, covered "Only a River," a song Ritter co-wrote with the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. Ritter is bringing new music to his ...
Dedicated to the memory of his mother, Josh Ritter’s tenth album emerges as a thoughtful set of songs that boast atmospheric ambiance.
Live Music Lineup: Josh Ritter, Dead Gowns and Trombone Shorty See Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at the State Theatre on Feb. 20.
Josh Ritter has never made a secret that he isn’t much of a fan of writing autobiographical songs. He prefers to be a storyteller. (His previous album, “So The World Runs Away,” for instance ...
You may know Josh Ritter primarily as a songwriter and musician, but did you know he's also a novelist? He put out his first book a decade ago, and now he's returned with a new one.
Music Box-bound Oberlin grad Josh Ritter sees Bob Dylan cover one of his songs ‘Well, that sucks that he wrote a song that is the same title as mine,’ singer-songwriter recalls thinking when ...
Ahead of his return to New England, Ritter discussed his formative years in Massachusetts, his next novel, and the time Bob Dylan covered his song.
Ritter's upbringing likely informed his songwriting technique in the fashion of the scientific method -- watching, learning and trying to solve a song like a puzzle.
Josh Ritter usually shares his stories through songs, and we've been a fan of this raconteur for years now. But he's also a novelist, and after finishing his second book, The Great Glorious ...