Josh Ritter with special guest Eric Bachmann SOLD OUT

Start: 10/17/2007 - 7:30pm

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.”

For Historical Conquests, Ritter altered his approach to the recording process in an effort to make a more spontaneous album. Ritter expounds, “A lot of this record is an effort to capture moments when they were at their most passionate; to capture many different emotions that simply wouldn’t work if we had ever tried to re-record them.” He goes on to describe, “The vocal take on ‘To the Dogs;’ the feel of ‘Wait for Love;’ the guitar of ‘Mind's Eye’—there are a lot of different feelings here, but what ties them together for me is how raw they were captured and how we maintained that rawness throughout the production.”

Josh sums up the project this way: “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter has no moral and no particular philosophy. It’s violent in spots, there are a lot of gunfighters and fire and pre-post apocalyptic love songs and no small amount of gratitude for friends in the midst of the same fire you’re in. It’s also pretty funny sometimes. To me.”