Silly beeping.  Sounds like our man's hearing aid is turned up too loud.  Someone whistle gently to get the man to turn it down.

 fredriley wrote: 
Perhaps, but our man Ritter can also calm the road rage too.

 Proclivities wrote: 

I think your on to something here.........."she's now playing while I'm down here praying, parlaying a run into a straight"
Oh yeah.

 Jelani wrote: 
I do too, especially when I read the name in the "Now Playing" box.  Good song, despite that.

Every time I hear this guys name, I can't help but think of THIS guy....

 Darlington wrote: 
You want to be careful with what you play in the car - falling asleep at the wheel is dangerous, and yer man Ritter has a strong soporific effect

I had this CD in the car last week. Fantastic from start to finish.

Well, I thought that was very nice.

I was expecting Deacon Blue, "A Ship Called Dignity" after that intro.
 
Anyone?
 
Bueller?

thewaxtadpole wrote:

Once upon a time, I ate large amounts of 3-minute oatmeal and powdered milk. Daily. No sugar but the Iodine taste frequently poked through.

If you hold the milk and oatmeal in your mouth long enough, it turns sweet.

Pleasant. But I fight this urge to edit the song and produce it differently, like a writer/editor confronted with a piece of writing that is almost there.... but not quite.

This is a 7, would be an 8 without the annoying beeping sounds. They really take me out of the song.

fretman wrote:

Obviously SOMEBODY doesn't know how to use a basic 8th grade chem lab, take frog DNA and comingle it with T.Rex DNA and then .. ARRRGGGH!

It's mid-morning, I'm fully-caffeinated, and this is putting me straight to sleep

If anyone saw the episode of House that ended with this song at the end I thought it was very fitting. I love that show. I love this song.

good song

Stefen wrote:

I think the beeping is a keyboard note that is part of the music. Either that, or the alarm just went off on my geek-watch indicating I spent too much time commenting on this track.

Geecheeboy wrote:

I hadn't thought about Photoshop when I looked at the cover- I thought that's where the Tyrannasuarus Rex bit the horse. But I SHOULD have thought "Photoshop", because that's about the only way to get a T. Rex these days... except for the cloned ones they're making in Costa Rica...

Geecheeboy wrote:

...i think it's time to step back and re-focus.

And the horse went: "Ho Hum Ho Hum"

Does anyone else hear beeping toward the end?

Josh Ritter is a like a big bowl of plain oatmeal to me.

Geecheeboy wrote:

I do believe the cover art could be making an artistic statement.

I wonder why somebody photoshopped out the saddle on that horse? Leaves him looking very strange and swaybacked, but worse than swaybacked. Clearly it is an English saddle profile, but strange harness. Girth is way too narrow, and the others straps don't belong.... tres peculiar.

Seeing him tonight! Can't wait :)

Pretty likeable.

We love Mr Ritter 'round these parts.

There's an interview and, even better, two performances on Amazon's TV show thingie. Ritter does "Wolves" w/his band and "Girl in the War" solo.

Daniel_Pittenger wrote:

Sounds very similar to an Aussie artist...Josh Pyke...

awesome rock on!

Jesus, I just discovered Josh Ritter ala Thin Blue Flame...I cannot get enough! That song is the most powerful, tingly, teary eyed song in ages, just listen to the lyrics. This song is nice too, but I'm currently obsessed, so I'm bias.

I love this song. Great lyrics. Just honest. It's one of those take you on a mental journey songs. His video for this song is pretty nice, too. I like the old Western feel to it.

emleamy wrote:
Yea - during the interview, he's in the basement of some Disney building, which was funny. He's got an independenty-wrought, interesting purpose behind his songwriting that he describes - somewhat inspiring, I thought.