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December 15% Off Webstore Sale

All merch in the Josh Ritter web store is 15% off for the rest of the month of December. Get your holiday gifts right here: joshritter.merchtable.com

 

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North American tickets selling out

Tickets going fast for Josh’s Jan-March North American dates. Some of the shows are sold out (thank you!) and others are getting close, so pick up your tickets soon! Full dates and details are here: http://www.joshritter.com/shows

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Acoustic Irish Tour Starts Wednesday

Josh’s acoustic world tour starts up again on Wednesday with 12 shows across 15 days in beautiful Ireland. We’re hitting some towns Josh has never visited before along with lots of old favorites. Tickets are close to selling out for many of these shows – less than 20 left in Dublin. Don’t miss out!

JOSH ACOUSTIC IRISH TOUR

w/ special guest Stephen Kellogg

Dec 4 – Triskel Christchurch – Cork, IE - SOLD OUT

Dec 5 - Garter Lane Arts Centre – Waterford, IE - Tickets

Dec 6 – Birr Arts Centre & Theatre – Birr, IE - Tickets

Dec 7 – Source Arts Centre – Thurles, IE - Tickets

Dec 9 – Unitarian Church – Dublin, IE - SOLD OUT

Dec 10 – Vicar Street – Dublin, IE - Tickets

Dec 11 – Dunamaise Arts Centre – County Laois, IE - Tickets

Dec 13 – St. Canice’s Cathedral – Kilkenny, IE - Tickets

Dec 14 – Milennium Forum – Derry, IE - Tickets

Dec 15 – Balor Theatre – Ballybofey, IE - Tickets

NEW! Dec 17 – Pavilion - Dun Laoghaire, IE - Tickets

Dec 18 – St. Iberus Church – Wexford, IE - Tickets

Josh’s acoustic tour hits North America in 2014. Dates and tickets here.

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Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale

Today through Monday we’re having a big sale in the Josh Ritter Web Store.

$10 CDs

$12 LPs

$15 T-Shirts

$30 Hoodies

$10 Show Posters

$12 paperback copies of Bright’s Passage

$15 hardcover copies of Bright’s Passage

http://joshritter.merchtable.com

 

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Ed Milliband loves Change of Time

Labour Party Leader, Ed Milliband added Change of Time to his Desert Island Discs list in an issue of this week’s The Guardian

 

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Joy To You Baby on NBC’s Parenthood

Joy To You Baby aired on last week’s episode of NBC’s Parenthood. Watch the full episode online right here. Joy To You Baby plays during the closing scene of the episode. But you should really watch the whole thing.

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New Ireland show + more

Josh has added one more acoustic show to his December tour in Ireland:

December 5 – Garter Lane Arts Centre – Waterford, Ireland  - TICKETS

Two other shows are also on sale this morning:

January 30 – Banff Centre – Banff, Alberta –

March 6 – Somerville Theatre (2nd night!) – Somerville, MA – TICKETS

Josh’s full acoustic tour routing can be found here

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Second nights added

Because some shows on Josh’s acoustic North American tour are selling out early, we’ve added second nights of in Portland, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Boston!

Jan 24 – The Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR – TICKETS

Feb 20 – Fourth Presbyterian Church – Chicago, IL – TICKETS

Mar 1 – Lincoln Theatre – Washington, DC – TICKETS

Mar 6 – Somerville Theatre – Somerville, MA – TICKETS

Be sure to check out Josh’s full tour schedule here.

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New shows added

We’ve just added a couple of new shows to Josh’s 2014 acoustic tour:

January 11 @ South Orange Performing Arts Center – South Orange, NJ – TICKETS

January 24 @ The Aladdin Theater (2nd night!) – Portland, OR – TICKETS

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Historical Conquests Deluxe Vinyl

It’s been a long time coming, but The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter is now available on vinyl!

The record is being released as a deluxe double LP in a gatefold jacket. The studio album (LP #1) is on 180 gram translucent RED vinyl, plus a 10 song 12” (LP #2) on 150 gram black vinyl. The second LP features rare & hard to find remixes and demos, as well as THREE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED demos: ”Michelle,” ”Good Days,” and ”Black Jack Davey.”

LP #2 track list:

Overnight

Michelle (demo)

Good Days (demo)

Black Jack Davey (demo)

Sherriff McGiven

Still Beating (demo) FREE DOWNLOAD

Rumours (Jackdrag Off Broadway Remix)

Wildfires

Naked as a Window

Labelship Down

Package includes a download card with the entire 2xLP track list.

Buy at Josh Ritter webstore | Amazon.com | Local record store

Three random lucky fans who order from the Josh Ritter webstore will win a vinyl test pressing of The Historical Conquests 2LP set. Only 4 copies exist in the world!

THE HISTORICAL CONQUESTS OF JOSH RITTER BY…JOSH RITTER

The story of Conquests starts with the release of The Animal Years. The Animal Years was heady stuff. It was political, religious, searching in the ways that I felt best represented my own feelings about the nation at the time. To write another doozy like that felt wrong. I’d exorcised those feelings enough. No, the next record would be about love. Big love. The new record would be chuckly with it. And rather than spend a long time writing, I would fly by the seat of my pants.

So it was that, six months after the release of The Animal Years, we all found ourselves in Maine, at Sam Kassirer’s newly-acquired farmhouse, beginning work on The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter. With the exception of “The Temptation of Adam” and “Empty Hearts” I hadn’t written a word before I arrived. Over the next three weeks, however, I wrote like a madman. Sam had gotten me a tiny house down the road, and each morning after breakfast I would walk down through the snow, the air freezing my breath, making me feel more alive than I had in a while. There was no sluggishness from too long on the road, no worry about what might or might not happen next, nothing but the electric shock of the cold and the promise of hours of uninterrupted writing, recording, and hanging out with great friends. I would work on a song, get it where I thought it need to be, then bound up to the farmhouse, where the band would be working on laying tracks on an earlier song. I would listen, give my thoughts, and then play a new song for them. We’d add it to the pile and keep moving.

“To the Dogs or Whoever” slammed into being so fast that I barely knew the words before it was done. “Wait for Love”, “Moons”, “Next to the Last Romantic” all appeared as if waiting to be written down. I wrote “Open Doors” in an hour one morning.

If I had to use a single word to sum it up, it would be fun. With the world suddenly at our fingertips, the band, under the eye of Sam, was doing things that it felt like we had been preparing for a long time. It felt like the storm that had been building had finally arrived. “Right Moves” and “Rumors”, songs I had only ever had chords for, came out of the thunderclap, as did some of the stuff I didn’t release (until now), like “Good Days”, “Sheriff McGiven” and “Naked As A Window.”

At night we made big dinners, drank cheap beer by the case, and devised wild, barely sensical games based on b.b. guns, ski masks and toboggan races. It was all hellaciously good fun.

When I look back at it now, Historical Conquests was the moment when I took my own work into my own hands. For better or worse, I learned to embrace it as a part of me that I could neither control nor destroy nor ignore. And it was at that moment that I feel we all became each other’s worthy companions. Ours weren’t the lives of those dependent on the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Ours would be outrageous, and that was all that mattered. My friends. This is what Conquests was about. My friends, and all that we were and all that we could do.

Rock On!

Josh

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