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Under-rated everywhere outside Ireland, where he's the star he deserves to be, Idahoan Josh Ritter looks like a young Tom Waits, writes like a young Bob Dylan and sings like a young Leonard Cohen. These are, of course, absurd and probably unhelpful comparisons with which to burden any young artist, but Ritter's prodigious abilities prove an irresistible temptation in this regard. His 2003 album, Hello Starling is only just the pick of an already extraordinary catalogue. Ritter's songs sing about the usual stuff (love, principally, and the losing of it) to the usual structures (verses, choruses, enlivened by an instinctive flair for melody), but are distinguished from most by Ritter's signature good-heartedness, which manages to wring life-affirming warmth from the death-grip of unrequited affection. "You Don't Make It Easy Babe" is a Guy Clark-ish exercise in amused resignation, and "Kathleen" is simply a great love song, from the winning opening lines — "All the other girls here are stars/ You are the northern lights" — onwards.
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Bright Smile |
3:01 |
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| 02. | |
Kathleen |
4:08 |
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| 03. | |
You Don't Make It Easy Babe |
2:32 |
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| 04. | |
Man Burning |
2:47 |
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| 05. | |
Rainslicker |
4:13 |
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| 06. | |
Wings |
4:07 |
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| 07. | |
California |
3:10 |
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| 08. | |
Snow is Gone |
4:03 |
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| 09. | |
Bone of Song |
5:30 |
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| 10. | |
Baby That's Not All |
5:59 |
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| 11. | |
The Bad Actress |
3:39 |
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11 Total Tracks, 43:09 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Kathleen |
4:35 |
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| 02. | |
Golden Age Of Radio |
4:37 |
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| 03. | |
Easy Babe |
3:36 |
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| 04. | |
Snow Is Gone |
4:12 |
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04 Total Tracks, 17:00 Total Length
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