Sometimes I find myself thinking, as I travel, "when I get off the road in a week, I'll get back to my letters, I'll go to the library, I'll put some time into making bread right, I'll go for a run along Paradise Creek, I'll fix the step..." and my...

Thursday afternoon...

Weather.com shows an enormous bloody rent through eastern Tennessee, and so we sit here in a Knoxville bar looking out at the rain pounding down in the square and wondering if we're going to be able to play today. The event is called "Sundown in the City," but...

A few months ago, leaving for a tour of Canada and Europe, my band and I found ourselves with a few extra hours before the bus left.

Sam Kassirer had a video camera and a vision, the band and friends had costumes, and I had a song called "Real...

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If it's Sunday, we're in Birmingham, Alabama, a town that in the past has furnished numerous quasi-dangerous post-show activities. Among the carnage: amateur boxing, "martinis" made from some kind of black sludge, and today it's a near death experience delivered at the hands of a nearly blind and...

Asbury Park, NJ
The Stone Pony

April 24th, 2008

Unbeknownst to all until around 4 a.m. this morning, my first day of tour was to be set-aside for projectile food poisoning. I've had it once before (Ireland, Chinese take-out) but today has got the added heartbreak of beautiful weather...

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Welcome to the Josh Ritter Small Towns Tour Diary on HuffingtonPost.com! This writing is conceived of as a kind of primer for modern touring life. The music business today is going in two directions; you're either going on the road or you're going down the drain. As records...