Sermon on the Rocks

Sermon on the Rocks is the eighth full-length studio album, by singer/songwriter Josh Ritter. It was released October 16, 2015 on Pytheas Recordings.

Sermon on the Rocks
Studio album by
Josh Ritter
ReleasedOctober 16, 2015
RecordedThe Parlor, New Orleans
January 5–17, 2015
Genre
Length44:41
LabelPytheas Recordings
ProducerTrina Shoemaker, Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter chronology
Josh Ritter – Acoustic Live Vol. 1: Somerville Theater/Somerville, Mass
(2015)		 Sermon on the Rocks
(2015)		 Gathering
(2017)
Singles from Sermon on the Rocks
  1. "Getting Ready To Get Down"
    Released: September 17, 2015
  2. "Homecoming"
    Released: December 9, 2015

Ritter described the record as "messianic oracular honky-tonk."

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [2]
Irish Times[3]
Raidió Teilifís Éireann[4]
Rolling Stone [5]

NPR's Stephen Thomson said the album contains "some of Ritter's slipperiest, nimblest wordplay"[6] and Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone commented that the record used "Eighties textures" and "vivid character sketches" to yield a very different result from its predecessor, The Beast in Its Tracks.[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Josh Ritter.

  1. "Birds of the Meadow" – 3:15
  2. "Young Moses" – 4:08
  3. "Henrietta, Indiana" – 3:43
  4. "Getting Ready To Get Down" – 3:16
  5. "Seeing Me Round" – 4:58
  6. "Where the Night Goes" – 3:49
  7. "Cumberland" – 2:17
  8. "Homecoming" – 5:31
  9. "The Stone" – 3:55
  10. "A Big Enough Sky" – 2:47
  11. "Lighthouse Fire" – 3:12
  12. "My Man on a Horse (is Here)" – 3:50

Personnel

Musicians
  • Josh Ritter — acoustic and electric guitar, lead and harmony vocals
  • Zachariah Hickman — upright and electric bass, acoustic and classical guitar, percussion, vocals
  • Matt Barrick — drums, percussion, vocals
  • Sam Kassirer — piano, electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer, Hammond and Farfisa organs, percussion, vocals
  • Josh Kaufman — acoustic, electric, 12-string Rickenbacker and slide guitar, electric mandolin, bongos, vocals
  • Trina Shoemaker — percussion

Production
  • Recorded at The Parlor, New Orleans, January 5–17, 2015
  • Produced by Trina Shoemaker and Josh Ritter
  • Recorded by Trina Shoemaker with Eric Heigel
  • Mixed by Trina Shoemaker
  • Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering
  • Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice
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References
  1. Sermon on the Rocks by Josh Ritter, retrieved 2018-01-13
  2. Deming, Mark. Sermon on the Rocks at AllMusic. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  3. "Josh Ritter: Sermon on the Rocks | Album Review". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  4. "Josh Ritter - Sermon on The Rocks". RTE.ie. 2015-10-27. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
  5. Jonathan Bernstein, "Sermon on the Rocks" (review), Rolling Stone, October 29, 2015.
  6. Stephen Thomson, "Review: Josh Ritter, 'Sermon On The Rocks'", NPR, October 7, 2015.
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