Josh Ritter Band

Josh Ritter Josh Ritter hails from Moscow, Idaho, a part of the country once home to Russian and French settlers, Civil War refugees, and several Aboriginal tribes. Ritter began writing songs while attending Oberlin College, graduated in 1999 with a self-created American History through Narrative Folk Music major. He was signed by a United States record label, V2 Records, in 2005 and Hello Starling was re-released. Released on April 19, 2006, his fourth album, The Animal Years, received excellent reviews. Ritter's fifth album, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, was released on August 21, 2007 on Sony Records. Ritter's songs have been described as "hugely ambitious and perfectly balanced" (The New York Times) and "crafted with the sort of simple, burnished depth that transcends eras and turns 26-year-old tunesmiths into folk heroes" (The Boston Globe), while Details magazine called Ritter "the best young songwriter we've got." As a songwriter, Ritter wears his influences a bit on his sleeve with obvious nods to Dylan and Springsteen in his work, but rather than assuming the voice of the former's barbed-tongued commentator or the latter's blue-collar everyman, he instead co... more...