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Josh Ritter (not the son of Jack Tripper…I checked)
By Shawn | April 11, 2008
In my never ending endeavor to write a good review of something that I like without coming across as a total sac of douche I will again attempt to tell you Fungdarkians about this hombre’ from my home state of Idaho (let’s get the “ho” jokes out of the way now, “Idaho?… No!… You da ho!”) going by the name Josh Ritter.
Now I have only recently come across Mr. Ritter in the last couple of weeks but over the last couple of weeks I have been listening to him more often than not. His newest album The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter that came out all the way back in Aug of 07 is a much more upbeat record than Animal Years from 2006 so you should really check out both to get a full sense of the range you can extract from said records.
Critics compare him to Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan and they are pretty much right on, to me he is a combo of them both with a little Wilco mixed in there for good measure depending on the song.
If you are a fan of acoustic singer/songwrtiter type stuff check out Animal Years first then move on to Historical Conquests but if you place yourself into the complete opposite catagory you can you fuck your self! Just kiddin’ you can go fuck yourself and also check out Historical Conquests first wich will ease you into the slower songs sandwiched into some “bluegrassesque “jams. Over all I give Josh Ritter 14 out of 17 Waters!
Check out a movie clip of Mr. Ritter belows.
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