Josh Ritter Set To Debut At Nashville's Ryman Auditorium with Sold Out Show Tonight

Currently celebrating 20 years of making music, Josh Ritter will made his debut at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium with a sold out show tonight. The performance is in support of his critically acclaimed new album, Gathering, out now via Pytheas Recordings/Thirty Tigers.

Gathering continues to receive widespread praise-NPR Music proclaims, "Josh Ritter remains at the top of his game two decades into a highlight-strewn career. He'd be forgiven for loosening his grip, but his hand has never felt surer," while Rolling Stone adds, "Midway between the country, gospel and soul camps, with thickly stacked harmonies that evoke the Dead's own folk-rock classicAmerican Beauty." HuffPost furthers, "Gathering is beautiful and precise, and most of the beauty, to be certain, arises from a prolonged, often intimate contemplation of Ritter's enormous skill set as an honest bard."

Over the course of his career, Ritter has released eight full-length albums including, 2015's Sermon On The Rocks, which received widespread critical praise- The New York Times said, "The literary-minded songwriter Josh Ritter...recharges his music on his eighth studio album, Sermon On The Rocks...Harking back to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and maybe a little Mark Knopfler, Mr. Ritter has always been a slinger of serious ideas and high-flown imagery" and The Wall Street Journal furthered, "The new album's music is airy, propulsive and more often than not, catchy."

Most recently, in 2015, Ritter began a close collaboration with Bob Weir and went on to write or co-write many of the twelve songs on Weir's acclaimed 2016 solo album, Blue Mountain. Pitchfork called the album, "quietly adventurous, wise, and a welcome late-career turn," while Entertainment Weekly described it as, "a moving group of tunes worthy of any campfire."

In addition to his work as a musician, Ritter made his debut as a published author in 2011 with his New York Times best-selling novel, Bright's Passage (Dial Press/Random House). Of the work, Stephen King wrote 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."

The Royal City Band is Zachariah Hickman (bass, acoustic guitar, wurlitzer), Sam Kassirer (piano, organ, synthesizers, percussion), Josh Kaufman (guitar, synthesizer) and Ray Rizzo (drums, percussion).

JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND TOUR

February 16-Nashville, TN-Ryman Auditorium (SOLD OUT)
February 17 & 18-Louisville, KY-KCD Theatre
February 20-Vancouver, BC-Commodore Ballroom

February 21-Nelson, BC-Hume Hotel (SOLD OUT)

February 22-Banff, AB-Eric Harvie Theatre

February 23 & 24-St. Albert, AB-Arden Theatre

March 15-Spicewood, TX-Luck Reunion
April 10-Portland, ME-Show & Tell: Literary Spectacular
May 4-Pittsburgh, PA-Carnegie Lecture Hall*
May 6-Newark, OH-Thirty One West Ballroom*
May 9-Bay Shore, NY-YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts*

May 10-Woodstock, NY-Colony*
May 12-Troy, NY-Troy Savings Bank Music Hall*

May 13-Portsmouth, NH-The Music Hall*
July 13-Greenfield, MA-Green River Festival

*solo/acoustic show

Photo Credit: Laura Wilson

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