Americana legend JOSH RITTER announces album release date for ‘I Believe In You, My Honeydew’

AMERICANA legend JOSH RITTER announces September 12 as the release date for his ‘I Believe In You, My Honeydew’ album (via Thirty Tigers), and today showcases lyric video for lead track, ‘You Won’t Dig My Grave.’

Produced by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Langhorne Slim), September’s album features Ritter alongside his Royal City Band – Kassirer (piano/organ/synth/accordion), Zachariah Hickman (acoustic & electric bass/thumb piano/mandolin), Rich Hinman (guitars/pedal steel/mandolin), and Ray Rizzo (drums/percussion).

“I lived in the woods when I was a kid,” said Ritter. I used to believe – and maybe I was right – that I could walk out of our front door, across the gravel road and, pointing myself north, I could walk to Canada, never once leaving the tree line. Wonder was a temple with no walls, and the muse was still just a ripple in the ponderosas. I felt no fear.

“I’m forty-eight now, decades have passed. There have been times I felt my inspiration, my muse, had passed along with them. And then, not too long ago, I decided that instead of waiting for the muse to write me a song, I would write the muse a song instead, and I started referring to my muse as my Honeydew, and this album was born.

“The songs are songs for my muse, my invisible and blinding companion of long-standing. I hope it enjoys them. I hope that it experiences a bit of what it’s like to be human, a bit of what it’s like to be lonely, scared, uncertain, joyful, righteous.”

‘I Believe in You, My Honeydew’ follows Ritter’s 2024 mini-album, ‘Heaven, or Someplace as Nice,’ recorded with jazz guitar legend, Bill Frisell.

Further details HERE