Josh Ritter, Part III
Two chords, ten minutes, seven-hundred-fifty-three words - this shouldn't work. But, with the help of Brian Deck's thin, crashing production, Ritter's imposing and impassioned performance takes this song as high as it can go (somewhere near "Heroin") before reeling it back in for the clear-eye finale. The song doesn't pretend to be anything but immediate: all martial cadences, blue-hot guitars and breathless, hissing convictions - but thank God this isn't a rant. It's a reminder to hope; to hope now and to hope hard, lest the tragedy Ritter forsees might come to pass.
Read the lyrics here, play along: C - F and the occasional Am, capo 1
Visit Josh Ritter online. Song taken from the upcoming full length The Animal Years.
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The NCAA pools at left are almost set! Somehow CYSTSFTS has two entries in the ESPN pool, the cheater.
Cracked examines "Who's Who in Your NCAA Office Pool."
Joe GetHimEatHim tells me there are more copies of the Do As I Tell You EP available at their website! Please go buy it until there are none left! I also suggest you get the Casual Sex demo, as mine came with googly-eye packaging (you cannot beat googly-eye packaging).
I'm off to London, back Sunday. Enjoy!
by brian at 3/16/2006 07:55:00 AM
2 Comments:
Cheater? Them is fightin' words. I inadvertantly uploaded two brackets to the group. Have no fear though, I've removed the one in error (even though it was probably more realistic).
Thanks for the Josh Ritter. Check out my post on him @ http://staergetaleht.blogspot.com/2006/03/intimate-live-josh-ritter.html Some nice acoustic tracks off the new album.
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