Josh Ritter - Live at The Iveagh Gardens

Josh Ritter - New York singer/songwriter's burgeoning U.K. fan base is out in force on this performance recorded on a rainy July evening at Dublin's Iveagh Gardens during Ritter's 2010 tour for his So Runs The World Away studio album..released earlier this year in Europe, the package includes the 21-song concert on DVD and double CD and features Ritter and his fine touring outfit The Royal City Band // Release: Live at The Iveagh Gardens (December 13) // Sounds like: like all of Ritter's shows, an exhilarating and passionate performance...the production quality is great and you can tell that the concert, the first "rock" show at the famed Irish venue, was a special night for all...(see videos below)

Quote: "I always think of someone asked Leonard Cohen, “Where do you go to get all the good songs?” And he said, ‘if I knew, I’d go there more often.” I really think that’s true. The wonder is that it happens at all. If you write and you write and write and it’s all bad and one day something good happens and, like Hemingway says, you get lucky and you write better than you can. Those are the moments  you hang on for, but you gotta write through them." // What we like: the grand rock theatrics on display can't help but bring out the comparisons to Springsteen, Mellencamp, etc., but Ritter's unpretentious, self-deprecating stage presence, even during the dramatic riffs, is happy to play out smaller and leaner..."Right Moves", with a pounding piano pulse and emphatic back beat, sums up the Ritter appeal succinctly: sharp songwriting (with a simple, oversized hook), a rambunctious spirit and an unabashed crowd-pleasing directness...The Royal City Band is a remarkably well-oiled and efficient machine...

Josh Ritter - "Right Moves" (from Live at the Iveagh Gardens)

Josh Ritter - "Lillian, Egypt" (from Live at the Iveagh Gardens)

Live At The Iveagh Gardens tracklisting:

CD Disc 1

1. Moon River
2. Lantern
3. Minds Eye
4. Right Moves
5. Southern Pacifica
6. Rattling Locks
7. Rumors
8. Bright Smile
9. Lillian Egypt
10.The Curse
11. Lark
12. Long Shadows

CD Disc 2

1. Roll On
2. Me & Jiggs
3. Kathleen
4. Change Of Time
5. Remnant
6. Harrisburg
7. To The Dogs (Or Whoever)
8. Snow Is Gone
9. Wait For Love

Photo Credit: Bill Ivester