JOSH RITTER

“Harking back to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and maybe a little Mark Knopfler, Mr.

Ritter has always been a slinger of serious ideas and high-flown imagery.”

- The New York Times

“Mysterious, melancholy, melodic...and those are only the M’s.”

— Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly

About the new album Spectral Lines (out 4/28):

Josh Ritter has been thinking a lot about space exploration. It has nothing to do with his spellbinding new album, Spectral Lines, except that in a way, it really does. “The Voyager spacecraft went up in ’77 and now it’s out there in a place that no one’s ever been before, and it’s sending back all these messages,” Ritter says. “I feel like songs do that in their own little way. They’re probes: they go out into the world, and sometimes you hear stories back from them, but really, they go off on their own.” Ritter, too, is sending back messages, in the form of 10 new songs that are atmospheric and impressionistic. Like the recently launched Webb Telescope, or Voyager all those years ago, he’s looking for signs of life, reaching for a sense of commonality, something that feels universal in this infinite universe. Spectral Lines, his 11th album, finds those shared experiences in songs that push beyond the bounds of Ritter’s previous work. Recorded with longtime collaborator Sam Kassirer producing, it’s an album full of wonder and light as Ritter considers the ideas of love, devotion and what it means to be connected, to each other and to ourselves.

ABOUT CARING BEYOND

Caring Beyond was formed by Chris McClain, A Realtor for The Masiello Group, and Katie Myers and Heather Galloway, insurance brokers with King Insurance Partners.  Meeting from a mutual partnership between King and The Masiello Group, they bonded over their shared love of music and asked themselves how they could give back to their community.  They realized that they don't have the capability to make a huge difference individually, but through partnering with organizations such as Child Advocacy Center, they could make a significant impact in the lives of the people in their communities that need it most.  

ABOUT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY

The Child Advocacy Center of Rockingham County is a non-profit organization that works in conjunction with community agencies such as law enforcement, county attorney’s office, child protective services, medical and mental health providers, and victim advocates in the pursuit of the safety, health, and wellbeing of children. With office locations in Portsmouth and Derry, the Child Advocacy Center investigated over 330 allegations of child abuse last year.