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http://www.joshritter.com"You are presently reading about what may be the best album of 2007, hands down, by the most under-accorded American musical genius....majestic, soulful, raucous....Ritter here lays claim to singularity - yes, colored by Dylan and Springsteen but simultaneously enlivened by something simple, magical, and gorgeous."
- Amazon.com
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...
Band Members
Josh Ritter - guitar & vocals / Zack Hickman - bass, guitar, tuba, & heavy lifting / Sam Kassirer - piano, keyboards, accordion, & weird sounds / Austin Nevins - guitar / Liam Hurley - drums, percussion, yelling.
Website
www.joshritter.com
Influences
Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, Billy Collins, Mark Twain
