- Music
- 27 Jul 15
As first single 'Getting Ready To Get Down' hits NPR.
We were treated to a live acoustic ten-tracker at the start of the year but October 16 sees the release of Josh Ritter's eight studio album.
Sermon On The Rocks will land this autumn on Pytheas Recodings/Thity Tigers but today we get lead single 'Getting Ready To Get Down (officially available July 31).
Produced by Ritter and Trina Shoemaker (Queens of the Stone Age, Emmylou Harris), the 12 song collection was recorded over two weeks at New Orleans’ The Parlor Recording Studio and features Matt Barrick from The Walkmen on drums, Zachariah Hickman on bass, Josh Kaufman on guitar and Sam Kassirer on piano.
Of his inspiration behind Sermon On The Rocks, Ritter says: “I wanted to play messianic oracular honky-tonk.”
TRACK LISTING:
1. Birds of the Meadow
2. Young Moses
3. Henrietta, Indiana
4. Getting Ready To Get Down
5. Seeing Me Around
6. Where The Night Goes
7. Cumberland
8. Homecoming
9. The Stone
10. A Big Enough Sky
11. Lighthouse Fire
12. My Man On A Horse Is Here