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Thu. July 31st 2014 The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver BC $32.50

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Josh Ritter, Lake street Dive

Of the 2013 record, The Beast In Its Tracks, renowned singer-songwriter Josh Ri...
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Thu. July 31st 2014 + Add to Calendar The Commodore Ballroom (No Minors)
$32.50+

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Josh Ritter
Lake street Dive

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Vancouver BC
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Of the 2013 record, The Beast In Its Tracks, renowned singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, say, "In the year after my marriage ended, I realized that I had more new songs than I'd ever had at one time. Far from the grand, sweeping feel of the songs on So Runs the World Away, these new songs felt like rocks in the shoe, hard little nuggets of whatever they were, be it spite, remorse, or happiness."

This is the sixth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike. Recorded during 2011-2012 at the Great North Sound Society in Parsonsfield, Maine, The Beast In Its Tracks continues Ritter's longtime collaboration with producer and keyboard player Sam Kassirer. As Josh describes, "I hadn't composed this stuff, I'd scrawled it down, just trying to keep ahead of the heartbreak. They needed to be recorded like that. We needed to work fast, make decisions quickly, keep the songs as spare as they could be kept, and above all never allow ourselves to blunt the sharp edges. Some of the songs were mean or evil. So be it."

The album follows Ritter's 2010 release, So Runs The World Away, of which Bob Boilen from NPR Music declared, "I've come to expect good records from him...but this one took my breath away," while the Boston Globe praised, "quite sensational...marks the finest music he has made."

In 2011, Ritter made is debut as a published author with his New York Times Best-selling novel, Bright's Passage (Dial Press/Random House). Of the work, Stephen King writes in the New York Times Book Review, "Shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his prime . . . This is the work of a gifted novelist."

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The Commodore Ballroom
868 Granville Vancouver
Capacity990
Open / Operational

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