Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few artists spend more time putting the world around them into words than Josh Ritter. As a musician, he has released 13 studio ...

Josh Ritter came full circle when his earliest musical influence, Bob Dylan, covered "Only a River," a song Ritter co-wrote with the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. Ritter is bringing new music to his ...

When Studio One caught up with Josh Ritter back in November, it was at the end of a stretch where he and the Royal City Band (his backing band) had played nine shows in ten days. The next day was his ...

Maybe it’s the little “by” on the cover, but it seems like Josh Ritter has taken some kind of quantum leap here. On his sixth studio record, the title — So Runs the World Away — is spelled out, and ...

Lyrics are a labor of love for Moscow, Idaho, native Josh Ritter, and tinkering with the right word in the perfect place is just one step in his “scientific method.” Lyrics are a labor of love for ...

As one of the most thoughtful singer-songwriters around, Josh Ritter isn't one to write angry, over-the-top, knee-jerk breakup songs - even though his new album, The Beast in Its Tracks, was written ...

The way Josh Ritter sees it, the entire musical world is filled with folk singers. Whether it's a Ritter-penned tale of a polar-venturing sea captain in search of an undiscovered land or a real-life ...

But there Ritter stood, pulpit to his right, flying-eagle lectern (the symbol of St John the Evangelist) to his left. The numbers of last Sunday’s hymns were still on display. Leonard Cohen liked to ...

“I got a couple of them. I got ‘Pearl,’ the Janis Joplin record, and I bought ‘Bringing It All Back Home.’ That was after I heard ‘Nashville Skyline,’ which my parents owned. I remember going out and ...