An evening of intelligent, lyrical songs from one of the best of the next generation of singer-songwriters, Idahoan Josh Ritter. Josh and a full band will be celebrating the August 21 Sony release of his highly anticipated label debut The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter. Arriving at the apex of a breakout year, Historical Conquests—Ritter’s fourth full-length CD—follows the success of the critically acclaimed The Animal Years (2006), which The Boston Globe described as his “most intensely political, deeply personal, and darkly ambitious disc yet...” Paste Magazine named him one of the “100 Best Living Songwriters” and author Stephen King named it his #1 album of 2006 stating, “This is the most exuberant outburst of imagery since Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”