Josh Ritter — Sermon On The Rocks (180G LP)

Josh Ritter called Sermon on the Rocks his shot at "messianic oracular honky-tonk," and on this glorious 180-gram pressing the ambition rings out loud and clear. Recorded over two weeks at The Parlor in New Orleans — that city where the Mississippi finally exhales into the Gulf — the album crackles with the spirit of American roots music at its most alive. Ritter's folk rock and Americana instincts are here pushed wider, grander, and more joyfully unruly, with Matt Barrick's drums swinging hard beneath songs like "Getting Ready to Get Down" and the aching "Homecoming." Produced alongside Trina Shoemaker, this is a record that earns every inch of its big sound.

Tracklist

1. Birds of the Meadow
2. Young Moses
3. Henrietta, Indiana
4. Getting Ready to Get Down
5. Seeing Me 'Round
6. Where the Night Goes
7. Cumberland
8. Homecoming
9. The Stone
10. A Big Enough Sky
11. Lighthouse Fire
12. My Man on a Horse (Is Here)