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Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter

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Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter was a teenager in Moscow, Idaho, when he discovered the album Nashville Skyline in his parents’ record collection. The song that hit him hard was “Girl from the North Country,” Dylan’s duet with Johnny Cash. But it’s “Po Boy,” off Dylan’s 2001 album Love and Theft, that means the most to Ritter […]

Josh Ritter

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Growing Pains with Josh Ritter, Martha Plimpton, and Junot Diaz

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Studio 360 – Episode 847 – Dylan, Hamlet, Neuroscience – Josh Ritter

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Josh Ritter Turns the Page

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Josh Ritter

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Josh Ritter says that his new album, ‘So Runs the World Away,’ is evidence that he’s not a kid anymore. Ritter performs two songs from the record and talks to Kurt about feeling grown up when he was eight years old. From Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.

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Josh Ritter: Not a Kid Anymore

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Josh Ritter says that his 2010 album So Runs the World Away is evidence that he’s not a kid anymore. He tells Kurt about feeling grown up when he was 8 years-old and, as he gets older, wanting to protect the childlike part of himself. And Ritter reveals the secret to curing his writer’s block: […]

Plimpton, Ritter, Diaz

Studio 360 was recorded before a live audience at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, author Junot Diaz, and actress Martha Plimpton joined Kurt Andersen on stage, with live performances by Ritter and Plimpton. Kurt talks to these three creative Gen-Xers about growing up.

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