Josh Ritter has announced that his Golden Age of Radio album has been re-issued as a Deluxe 2-Disc Edition, which features a bonus disc containing each song from the album recently re-recorded by Josh, solo acoustic, exclusively for this release.
You can listen to the entire 2 disc set here, and while you’re there, make sure to download the FREE MP3 from the bonus disc as well.
DELUXE EDITION FEATURES
• Bonus CD of Josh performing the entire album, solo acoustic. Recorded exclusively for the re-issue in Nashville, June 2008
• Full color booklet with lyrics and never-seen-before photos from the original album’s era of writing and recording
• Introduction Essay by filmmaker Cameron Crowe
• 4 non-album tracks (b-sides and remixes)
• 2 homemade music videos, including “Me & Jiggs” by Glen Hansard
• The full original studio album
A NOTE FROM JOSH (via JoshRitter.com)
“We were coming back from Philadelphia. It was two in the morning and it had to be eighty degrees. I had a temp job in the morning. Darius had a real job in Boston and Zack was due back in class the next day. Ahead of us somewhere on the George Washington Bridge, somebody was deciding whether or not to jump. We’d finished Golden Age of Radio that day, laying down the final tracks that same night, and we were all very tired.
The first time I heard a song of mine on the radio, it was ‘Me and Jiggs.’ The first time I heard someone else sing my song, it was ‘Come and Find Me.’ This record was the one that gave me my first peek at the possibilities of a life writing and playing music. I am indebted to those who have chosen to share in those possibilities with me.”
- Josh Ritter
Somewhere between Pittsburgh and Allentown, PA
April 2009
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Your Dig-It Downloads:
Download: Golden Age of Radio (live at The Rivoli 1/29/05)
Download: Me & Jiggs (live at Bonnaroo 2005)
Download: Come and Find Me (live at El Rey Theatre 3/1/07 – solo acoustic)
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Very cool! I don’t have the original of this one (just Animal Years), so I think I may have to order this up. I mean 2 cd’s… all solo acoustic on one of them… all for $13? Heckuva deal! And the free download is very nice (as are the ones you posted…thx!)
Could you please not post Josh Ritter stuff when I am busy, I almost missed this.