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Hey everyone,
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
AUTUMN 2013 ACOUSTIC TOUR POSTER
Here's the beautiful tour poster available on Josh's Acoustic European tour. Designed and screen printed by Luke Drozd, strictly limited to 300 copies and only available at these shows. Dates and ticket links are listed below. JOSH RITTER ACOUSTIC WORLD TOUR JOSH ACOUSTIC EUROPEAN TOUR
w/ special guest Tift Merritt
Oct 27 - Pocktoberfest @ The Old Station - Pocklington, UK - Tickets
Oct 28 - Royal Northern College of Music - Manchester, UK - Tickets
Oct 29 - Old Fruitmarket - Glasgow, Scotland - Tickets
Oct 30 - St. George's Church - Bristol, UK - Tickets
Nov 1 - Doornroosje - Nijmegen, NL - Tickets
Nov 2 - Tivoli - Utrecht, NL - Tickets
Nov 3 - Stadsschouwburg - Groningen, NL - Tickets
Nov 4 - Mezz - Breda, NL - Tickets
Nov 5 - Orangerie Botanique - Brussels, BE - Tickets
Nov 7 - Moby Dick - Madrid, ES - Tickets
Nov 8 - La (2) - Barcelona, ES - Tickets
Nov 10 - Barbican - London, UK - Tickets
JOSH US NOVEMBER SHOWS
Nov 22 - Pollak Theatre @ Monmouth University - West Long Branch, NJ - Tickets
Nov 24 - Tarrytown Music Hall - Tarrytown, NY - Tickets
JOSH ACOUSTIC IRISH TOUR
w/ special guest Stephen Kellogg Dec 4 - Triskel Christchurch - Cork, IE - SOLD OUT
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 ACOUSTIC US / CANADIAN TOUR
w/ special guest Gregory Alan Isakov Tickets for some of these shows are already getting close to selling out! Jan 16 - Acadiana Center for the Arts - Lafayette, LA - Tickets
Jan 17 - Kessler Theater - Dallas, TX - Tickets
Jan 18 - Moody Theater - Austin, TX - Tickets
Jan 20 - Music Instrument Museum - Phoenix, AZ - ON SALE SOON
Jan 21 - Wilshire Ebell Theater - Los Angeles, CA - Tickets
Jan 23 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA - Tickets
Jan 25 - The Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR - Tickets
Jan 26 - The Neptune - Seattle, WA - Tickets
Jan 28 - Capitol Theatre - Nelson, BC, Canada - Tickets
Jan 29 - Knox United Church - Calgary, AB, Canada - Tickets
Jan 30 - Banff Centre - Banff, AB, Canada - ON SALE NOV 15
Jan 31 - Arden Theatre - St. Albert, AB, Canada - Tickets
Feb 1 - Arden Theatre - St. Albert, AB, Canada - Tickets
Feb 3 - Fitgerald Theatre - St. Paul, MN - Tickets
Feb 4 - Englert Theatre - Iowa City, IA - Tickets
Feb 5 - Stoughton Opera House - Stoughton, WI - Tickets Feb 21 - Fourth Presbyterian Church - Chicago, IL - Tickets
Feb 22 - Buskirk-Chumley Theatre - Bloomington, IN - Tickets
Feb 23 - Sheldon Concert Hall - St. Louis, MO - Tickets
Feb 24 - Headliner's - Louisville, KY - Tickets
Feb 25 - Taft Theatre - Cincinnati, OH - Tickets
Feb 27 - Keswick Theatre - Philadelphia, PA - Tickets
Feb 28 - Lincoln Theatre - Washington, DC - Tickets
Mar 4 - Lebanon Opera House - Lebanon, NH - Tickets
Mar 5 - Somerville Theater - Boston, MA - Tickets
Mar 7 - Town Hall - New York, NY - Tickets
Check out this video of Josh, Zack, and Josh performing Joy To You Baby. It's just a small taste of what to expect on this tour. THE BEAST IN ITS TRACKS IS AVAILABLE NOW
 CD & Vinyl | iTunes | Amazon
Find a local record store
BarnesandNoble.com (includes free lyrics journal)
Stream on Spotify and MOG See you soon!
Team Josh |
