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As the U.S. began catching on, [Josh Ritter] went to France to record his third masterpiece, Hello Starling. Originally released on the folk label Signature Sounds, the album went to number two in Ireland. Josh started to play some bigger gigs such as the Newport and Cambridge Folk Festivals and the Sundance Film Festival. He was even nominated for last year's Shortlist Prize by Grammy hoarder Norah Jones. Eventually, Hello Starling caught the ear of V2 Records and with their support, Ritter has been able to release his album properly stateside.
He now splits his time between Moscow, the East Coast and Ireland. He considers himself to be successful. "I've always considered the ability to devote your life to playing music the ultimate prize a musician can attain, and to have a lifestyle that can sustain long periods of sitting, thinking and writing. All the other stuff, awards, supposed big record deals - all of that - it doesn't mean anything if it distracts you from why you began playing music in the first place," Ritter confided. "I'm so happy these days. I can get up in the morning and write and then go on a run and have lunch and settle back down to writing again. I love it. When I go on the road to perform, I get to go all over the world and meet all kinds of people who come to see my shows. Things can get bigger in scale but they can't get better. This is tops. I'm making a real living out of the love I have for writing songs. I'm a pretty lucky guy."See the full content of this document
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Josh Ritter is not the new hip, young artist to crawl out of the famed Chelsea Hotel and be immediately heralded as "life-changing" by Spin or Pitchfork (though Pitchfork gave his newest album a sterling review). In fact, Ritter was ...
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