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Sermon on the Rocks is the eighth full-length studio album, by singer/songwriter Josh Ritter. It was released October 16, 2015 on Pytheas Recordings. Ritter described the record as "messianic oracular honky-tonk." NPR's Stephen Thomson said the album contains "some of Ritter's slipperiest, nimblest wordplay"[3] and Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone commented that the record used "Eighties textures" and "vivid character sketches" to yield a very different result from its predecessor, The Beast in Its Tracks.[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Josh Ritter

  1. "Birds of the Meadow" – 3:15
  2. "Young Moses" – 4:08
  3. "Henrietta, Indiana" – 3:43
  4. "Getting Ready To Get Down" – 3:16
  5. "Seeing Me Round" – 4:58
  6. "Where the Night Goes" – 3:49
  7. "Cumberland" – 2:17
  8. "Homecoming" – 5:31
  9. "The Stone" – 3:55
  10. "A Big Enough Sky" – 2:47
  11. "Lighthouse Fire" – 3:12
  12. "My Man on a Horse (is Here)" – 3:50

Personnel

Musicians
  • Josh Ritter — acoustic and electric guitar, lead and harmony vocals
  • Zackariah Hickman — upright and electric bass, acoustic and classical guitar, percussion, vocals
  • Matt Barrick — drums, percussion, vocals
  • Sam Kassirer — piano, electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer, Hammond and Farfisa organs, percussion, vocals
  • Josh Kaufman — acoustic, electric, 12-string Rickenbacker and slide guitar, electric mandolin, bongos, vocals
  • Trina Shoemaker — percussion
Production
  • Recorded at The Parlor, New Orleans, January 5-17, 2015
  • Produced by Trina Shoemaker and Josh Ritter
  • Recorded by Trina Shoemaker with Eric Heigel
  • Mixed by Trina Shoemaker
  • Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering
  • Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

References

  1. ^ Deming, Mark. Sermon on the Rocks at AllMusic. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Jonathan Bernstein, "Sermon on the Rocks" (review), Rolling Stone, October 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Stephen Thomson, "Review: Josh Ritter, 'Sermon On The Rocks'", NPR, October 7, 2015.
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