After six acclaimed Americana-folk albums, Idaho native Josh Ritter needed to try something new. So while he was on tour, he used any downtime he had to plug away at a novel based on one of his songs.

In every musician's career, there are the songs that stand out among the rest. Maybe it's a song they were nervous to share with the world, the song that changed everything, or the song that was ...

Josh Ritter says songs are like hiccups. He'll be doing something mundane and a tune will pop into his head involuntarily, as if due to some reflexive bodily function. But he doesn't question where ...

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 ...

For Idaho's Josh Ritter, writing a song is similar to a bird building its home. "I think it's like a bird picking up weird things on the ground and carrying them back to the nest. If you watch them, ...

Although Josh Ritter’s new album for Thirty Tigers, “Spectral Lines,” dives into themes of love and connection, and the collection is dedicated to the memory of his mother, listeners can expect a ...

Josh Ritter bounded onto the Birchmere stage Sunday night alone and wearing a striped, cream-colored, three-button suit and an open-collar dress shirt. Before performing a note, the ruddy-bearded ...

Muses are a fickle beast, and Josh Ritter knows it. Next month, the folk rock artist (and novelist) will release his new album “I Believe in You, My Honeydew” — an ode to his muse, and one of his ...

The Springsteen comparisons are legit: Idaho neo-folkie Josh Ritter is the real deal. But whereas the Boss can't produce a note without squeezing his face into a mask of constipated anguish, Ritter ...

The singer-songwriter joins World Cafe for a new installment of Backtracking, where musicians revisit songs from their back catalog that have... The song Josh Ritter was nervous to share and more ...

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 ...