Sermon on the Rocks
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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
- "Birds of the Meadow" – 3:15
- "Young Moses" – 4:08
- "Henrietta, Indiana" – 3:43
- "Getting Ready To Get Down" – 3:16
- "Seeing Me Round" – 4:58
- "Where the Night Goes" – 3:49
- "Cumberland" – 2:17
- "Homecoming" – 5:31
- "The Stone" – 3:55
- "A Big Enough Sky" – 2:47
- "Lighthouse Fire" – 3:12
- "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
- ^ Deming, Mark. Sermon on the Rocks at AllMusic. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
- ^ a b Jonathan Bernstein, "Sermon on the Rocks" (review), Rolling Stone, October 29, 2015.
- ^ Stephen Thomson, "Review: Josh Ritter, 'Sermon On The Rocks'", NPR, October 7, 2015.