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Truth Is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding)

by Josh Ritter

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gernick Father's War. Emotional kick in the balls. Everytime.First heard him play it live and I might have cried a little. Glad it's on record now. Masterpiece in the virtually peerless Josh Ritter canon
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austinroberts89 Whenever Josh decides to make a proper counterculture song, it's really something to behold - capturing the moment with the perfect balance of anger and lament. I'm very grateful for this song, it makes me feel seen. Favorite track: Father's War.
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deedulls Thank you Josh for this little four song treasure. I saw you for the first time live this year in Utah at a solo show and was brought to tears. It was an experience that surpassed my expectations. I saw you for a second time just a few days ago in Portland Oregon and you again did not disappoint. I look forward to many more albums, songs and shows.
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knox3000 Just brilliant song writing by one of the best around. Favorite track: Father's War.
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Father's War 04:33
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Theophany 06:16
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Henryville 03:40
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about

I’m not sure what to say about these songs except that it felt so important to me, for some reason, that I shared them now. There is so much Absurdity in the world already, that it felt like their strangenesses, visitations and annunciations, blood and starlight (in four little songs), had met their moment. So, here they are, just me and four weird story songs.

I wrote these each line by line, not knowing where the stories would go from one syllable to the next. Sometimes that happens with songs. Most times it’s different, but these four songs felt found by a light held out in front of me. I experienced their twists and turns in real-time as I was writing. It felt so cool. Like normal, I have absolutely no memory of actually I writing them.

So, I had these weird uncovered-feeling songs, but I didn’t realize their cohesion together until a few weeks ago, at 10:12 pm, in Anchorage, Alaska. I was looking out the window of the little house where I was staying. Though it was late at night, the sun was still high, and the sky was sub-Arctic and powder-blue.

We call them “flashes” of inspiration because that’s how they physically feel; it shouldn’t be so bright in there, between our ears, but there’s no denying that our minds at times are briefly filled with light, and the turns in the labyrinth are illuminated before us.

Don’t get me wrong! I’m not calling this feeling extra-special or anything. We all get that feeling, at times. Sometimes I get that feeling about what to make the kids for dinner, too. In this case, however, the Imperative that I was feeling was to record these songs immediately, and to release them as quickly as possible.

At 10:13 pm at night, with the sun shining through the kitchen window, I was booking three hours with a local studio for the next afternoon.

I’m not going to be doing vinyl or anything right now, and I’m keeping it off streaming services for now. I’m just following my little ol’ heart on this one.

I’m super proud of these songs. Thank you for giving me the chance to write them and release them. I deeply, deeply appreciate it.

Rock On!
Josh

credits

released June 28, 2022

Josh Ritter: vocals and guitar
Recorded and mixed by Derek Haukaas at Frostline Studios in Anchorage, Alaska on June 6, 2022
Mastered by Daniel Goodwin
Layout and design by Michael Byzewski at Aesthetic Apparatus
All songs © ℗ Josh Ritter (Rural Songs, ASCAP)

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