Josh Ritter : So Runs The World Away
So Runs The World Away, the new album from renowned singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, will be released on 23 April 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 on the smallest details that I could and we tried to make the music and the words work together. I love writing, and this is the most fulfilling record I’ve written yet.”
A nationwide Irish full-band tour coincides with the release of the record which is available in Ireland before it’s US release date on 4 May. Additional details will be announced shortly.
JOSH RITTER
SO RUNS THE WORLD AWAY new album out 23rd April 2010
Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band
With special guest Joe Pug (except Kilkenny)
Live Dates
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 from Friday 26th February www.cqaf.com
Friday 30th April – Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny (Kilkenny Rythym & Roots festival)
Tickets €30 from from Rollercoaster records, 0567763669
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