So Runs the World Away

I'm going to do my best to keep pushing this guy on everyone.  When you have a good 55 minutes to sit back and listen, be sure to check this out:

NPR First Listen: Josh Ritter, "So Runs the World Away."

You can listen to the whole thing above via NPR until the album comes out next week.

Enjoy!


Updated May 7, 2010.  You can go to NPR's site above, or just use this:

Going out to California

We're heading out to the West Coast early in the morning. Hopefully I'll get some time to check in and post a few updates or at least some photos but we've got a pretty tight schedule. For the time being, below are a couple of my favorite California related songs.

A bit about the music on this blog. When possible, I'll try my best to post up live music when it seems legally possibly. As you'll probably find over the next several weeks and months, I'm a big fan of Josh Ritter and you can find quite a lot of his live performances here. When it isn't possible to post up something you can download, I'll most likely use the player from lala.com. Today you get one of each.

Josh Ritter "California (live)" [mp3] (recorded at the Double Door in Chicago, IL)

California One / Youth and Bea...

There's a great live recording of "California One" by Colin Meloy of the Decemberists floating around. It was part of a live NPR concert series. If you can still find it, more power to ya!

Come and Find Me

Finally. Tomorrow you arrive. No more waiting. No more sad goodbyes at the airport wondering when we'll be together again. Now it is the two of us. Together. Finally.

Come and Find Me

If I could trace the lines that ran
Between your smile and your sleight of hand
I would guess that you put something up my sleeve
Now every time I see your face the bells ring in a far-off place
We can find each other this way I believe

From the hills and up behind, my town
is naked from the horizon down
The curvature is pressed against the raise
We walked up in the fields alone
And the silence fell just like a stone
That got lost in the wild blue and the gravel grey

Come and find me now

Though I'm here in this far off place
My air is not this time and space
I draw you close with every breath
you don't know it's right until it's wrong
You don't know it's yours until it's gone
I didn't know that it was home ‘til you up and left

Come and find me now

I keep you in a flower vase
With your fatalism and your crooked face
With the daisies and the violet brocades
And I keep me in a vacant lot
In the ivy and forget-me-nots
Hoping you will come and untangle me one of these days

Come and find me now

Josh Ritter Come and Find Me (live)" [mp3]