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Free Josh Ritter Tracks
Just in time for the holidays, Josh Ritter has released two recordings of a recent concert in Dublin and you can get them here for free.
When Josh was in Dublin for his full-orchestra shows at Vicar Street this month, he found the time to sit with four talented string players and play a couple tunes. The result is GIRL IN THE WAR and EMPTY HEARTS like you’ve never heard them.
Josh Ritter Discusses Songwriting
One of the Green Olive Yuks favorite songwriters, Josh Ritter, was interviewed recently. Here is some of what he had to say regarding writing.
“My parents are scientists and they always talk about the idea that science doesn’t come from nowhere, it comes from definite needs in a society; people start studying questions based on what the society needs, and I feel that’s the same way with songs.
Not everything, I mean, ‘Toxic’ by Britney Spears is a great song and maybe it doesn’t answer a biting social need, but I do think if you go back from a song like that and look at what was going on in the world and in America at the time, that you’d find something interesting that you could put in your back pocket.”