Music Archive |
Josh Ritter: “Change of Time” - In my dream, we were in Jamaica, staying at a small hotel that was the Negril equivalent of the Bel Air --- so discreet that beach walkers could stroll past
Josh Ritter: Animal Years - Josh Ritter writes songs that speak of our time and speak to our time and aspire to last for all time. He's very ambitious. He had a following
Josh Ritter: Fever Breaks - A Josh Ritter CD. Produced by Jason Isbell. With the 400 Unit as the recording band. If these names mean anything to you, this is terrific news. If these names are unfamiliar,
Josh Ritter: Please Explain This ‘Historical Conquests’ - Josh Ritter brings out the English major in his listeners. We pore over his lyric sheets, snuffling for truffles --- and we're smart to do that
Josh Ritter: Reader Reviews - Four times a week, the daily newsletter reminds you what’s new on the site, and then, in Friday’s Weekend Edition, I free-associate and share bright thoughts you’ve sent me. (The
Josh Ritter: Sermon on the Rocks - I’m one of Josh Ritter’s Top 10 fans, but you’d never know it from the way I react to his CDs when they’re first released. I resist them. Mightily. Instead
Josh Ritter: So Runs the World Away - I’m one of those rabid fans who thinks Josh Ritter belongs in the same sentence as Springsteen, Simon, Dylan and Cohen --- but the first few times I played his
Josh Ritter: The Beast In Its Tracks - I love silent days crafting sentences alone, but if you put a gun to my head and told me I’d have to trade my maid’s room for the stages of
Josh Ritter: The Cheat Sheet - Josh Ritter is a poster child for this site --- a great talent who produces real art and deserves to be better known. I’m a fool for his songwriting, his
Josh Ritter: The Gathering - In a parallel life, I’m in a band with Zach Hickman, Sam Kassirer, Josh Kaufman and Ray Rizzo. I’ve been voted one of the hundred best living songwriters. You hear my
Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests - Guitars jangle. A piano ripples incongruously. And that's all the warning you get before “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” blasts into music so alien to
Judith Owen: “I’m back as me -
Julia Fischer - This is the age of the phenomenon, of unknowns rising like rockets and lighting up the sky until they're all we can see. But only briefly.
Junior Wells - He was making $1.50 a week on a soda truck in West Memphis to earn the money for a harmonica. But it cost $2. The pawnshop owner walked away from
Justin Townes Earle - Justin Townes Earle. You want to put the weight of the world on your kid, give him that name. Justin, an early Christian martyr. Townes, for Townes Van Zandt, the legendary --- and
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - The funniest moment I've seen on film or TV recently appeared in a commercial for Dos Equis beer. It's in the new "Most Interesting Man in the World" series, and it
Kate Tempest - The program is archived, available all week, but I treat “Cavalcade” as appointment listening --- on Sunday nights, you can find me writing with one ear on Paul Cavalconte’s exquisite
