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Sermon on the Rocks

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Released
  
October 16, 2015

Artist
  
Josh Ritter

Label
  
Pytheas Recordings

Length
  
44:41

Release date
  
16 October 2015

Genre
  
Folk rock

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Recorded
  
The Parlor, New Orleans, January 5-17, 2015

Producers
  
Trina Shoemaker, Josh Ritter

Similar
  
Josh Ritter albums, Folk rock albums

Josh ritter getting ready to get down official lyric video


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" 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.

Contents

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

    • Songs

    1Birds of the Meadow3:14
    2Young Moses4:08
    3Henrietta - Indiana3:43

    References

    Sermon on the Rocks Wikipedia
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