“HOMECOMING” by Josh Ritter

"HOMECOMING" comes from Sermon on the Rocks, the album Josh Ritter put out on Pytheas Recordings on October 16, 2015, a record he summed up as "messianic oracular honky-tonk". He wrote it alone, words and music.

It followed The Beast in Its Tracks, the 2013 record that grew out of his 2011 divorce from Dawn Landes and that he deliberately closed on a hopeful note, saying he wanted to leave a little fire burning for whatever came next. Sermon on the Rocks is where that fire went. Rolling Stone's Jonathan Bernstein heard a very different animal from its predecessor, built on retro textures and vivid character sketches, and NPR's Stephen Thomson praised some of the slipperiest wordplay Ritter had ever put on tape.

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