Sitting cross legged on the carpet in front of my record player, i get down and dirty with the sounds of my collection.
I didn’t know josh Ritter wrote so much for Bob Weir!
Listening party.
He’s listed on every song so I guess he wrote it with him? Have you listened to blue mountain yet? Ghost towns, questions of love long lost, rivers and storms; capturing the things in song that can slip so easily through your fingers in life. Perfect subjects for the lite and beautiful resonating folk-indie-Americana melodies. To choose to end the album on an ambiguous note too, gives the impression that their cowboy journey has not yet and maybe never will reach its end, with “one more river to cross.”
it’s Weir’s controlled country voice, reaching to deliver his soulful hurt in a way that is relatable but somehow still promising - that pulls me thru the songs. Resolution is found in the common yet new melodies on acoustic guitar, making this a great album for a Sunday morning when maybe you’re having breakfast alone and are warming up for an introspective day. Good set up for the next more heavy hitting album.
next on my listening journey…
