New album So Runs The World Away out 23rd April & Irish Tour
February 8th, 2010
JOSH RITTER
SO RUNS THE WORLD AWAY OUT 23rd April
Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band
With special guest Joe Pug (except Kilkenny)
Tickets on sale tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Feb. except where noted)
Saturday 24th April –The Live Lounge @ The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Tickets €30 from www.roisindubh.net/tickets.php
Sunday 25th April – Dolans, Limerick
Tickets from www.dolanspub.com or 061 314483 and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide Priced €29 + booking
Tuesday 27th April – Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin
Tickets €36 (incl.booking fee) from www.ticketmaster.ie
Thursday 29th April – Festival Marquee at CQAF, Belfast (Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival)
Tickets onsale from Friday 26th February www.cqaf.com
Friday 30th April – Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny (Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots festival)
Tickets €30 from (this is an 8.30pm show) from Rollercoaster records, 056 7763669
“If you love music and have a device on which to play it, you should listen to Josh Ritter…”
—Mary-Louise Parker in Esquire
So Runs The World Away, the new album from renowned singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, will be released April 23rd on Independent Records Ireland. This is the fifth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike. Of the Idaho-native, Paste magazine declares, “Put simply, Ritter is the most gifted interpreter of Americana, as an arranger and a lyricist, working today.”
Recorded over 15 months at the Great North Sound Society in Maine, with additional recording at Brooklyn’s Saltlands Studio, So Runs The World Away continues Ritter’s longtime collaboration with producer and keyboard player Sam Kassirer. Additionally, the album features the return of Ritter’s core line-up of touring bandmates: Zack Hickman, Austin Nevins and Liam Hurley.
Of the record, Ritter says, “I think of the songs on So Runs the World Away like pictures painted in oil on large canvasses. It’s a record preoccupied with the extremes of scale, from infinitesimal particles to the nearly incomprehensible distances between the head of a pin and a nebula. Where the songs felt large to me, I wanted them to be huge, both musically and lyrically. I wanted them to feel like the steel hulls of massive ships sliding by deeply from below. Where they were small, I concentrated in on the smallest details that I could and we tried to make the music and the words work together. I love writing, and this was the most fulfilling record I’ve yet written.”
A nationwide Irish full-band tour coincides with the record which is released in Ireland before it’s worldwide release in May. Additional details will be announced shortly.
Praise for Josh Ritter:
“…he sets out to carry a world of ideas on a few basic chords….there is no limit to the depth and ambition of his songs.”—The New York Times
“How refreshing and inspiring it is to encounter a young artist whose achievements match his ambitions.”—The Washington Post
“…this is the most exuberant outburst of imagery since Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”—Stephen King naming The Animal Years his #1 album of 2006 in Entertainment Weekly
“(One of ) The 10 Most Exciting Artists Now”—Entertainment Weekly
[08 February 2010]