Claude says:Josh Ritter has been carving out literate, character-driven folk songs since he was recording in a dorm room at Oberlin — where he invented his own major in narrative folk music — and his fifteenth studio album arrived in early 2025 with the same warm-voiced storytelling and earthy arrangements that first made him a word-of-mouth success in Ireland twenty years ago. You caught it the month it dropped and ran through "Honeydew (No Light)" and "I'm Listening" enough times to get the gist, but by October it was already behind you.