JOSH RITTER’S ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM
I BELIEVE IN YOU, MY HONEYDEW OUT TODAY

FALL HEADLINE TOUR CONFIRMED, TICKETS
ON-SALE NOW

September 12, 2025—Renowned singer, songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author Josh Ritter’s new album, I Believe in You, My Honeydew, is out today via Thirty Tigers. Stream/purchase the album HERE.

Throughout his decades-long career, Ritter has established himself as “one of the most perceptive artists making music today” (American Songwriter), releasing twelve albums to date and earning the respect of countless music legends, with artists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Bob Weir having performed and recorded his songs. With the release of I Believe in You, My Honeydew, Ritter shares ten new tracks that further demonstrate the insightful and engaging artistry that he’s celebrated for.

Already receiving critical attention, The Boston Globe calls I Believe in You, My Honeydew “one of his strongest records to date,” while Americana Highways praises, “one of the most essential voices in American songwriting…The album sparkles with clever turns, rollicking stories, and irresistible hooks—proof that even the weightiest ideas can be entertaining when delivered by a master storyteller” and Glide Magazine declares, “Strange, joyful, patient, curious—these are the qualities that keep Josh Ritter’s songs alive. I Believe in You, My Honeydew is not just another record, but his reminder that creativity, like pleasure, fills all the space we allow it.”

Produced by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Langhorne Slim), the new album features Ritter alongside his Royal City Band: Kassirer (piano, organ, synthesizer, accordion), Zachariah Hickman (acoustic and electric bass, thumb piano, mandolin), Rich Hinman (guitars, pedal steel, mandolin) and Ray Rizzo (drums, percussion).

Of the new body of work, Ritter shares, “I'm 48 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. I started referring to my muse as my honeydew. And this album was born. The songs on Honeydew 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.”

In celebration of the new music, Ritter will tour through this fall including newly confirmed solo shows at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge, Portland’s The Old Church (two nights), Seattle’s St. Mark’s Cathedral, and full band shows at New York’s Brooklyn Steel, Minneapolis’ Fitzgerald Theater, Philadelphia’s Keswick Theatre, Washington D.C.’s Lincoln Theatre among others. Ritter will also return to Boston for his “First Annual Homecoming Dance,” a special show at Citizens House of Blues on November 15; Tickets are on-sale now at www.joshritter.com.

The new project follows Ritter’s 2024 mini-album, Heaven, or Someplace as Nice, which he recorded with legendary jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, and his acclaimed 2023 full-length project, Spectral Lines. Of the record, Paste praised, “Josh Ritter is like a more open-hearted version of Leonard Cohen. His lyrics draw on the divine, but he seems to see a little heaven in all the people around him,” while No Depression declared, “a hopeful tapestry that encourages listeners to sit with each other in introspection, but not to forget to sing along.”

In addition to his work as a musician, Ritter is also a national best-selling author, having released two novels to date: 2011’s Bright’s Passage and 2021’s The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All, for which the film rights have recently been optioned for development. Released to critical attention, Stephen King wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Bright’s Passage “shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his prime…This is the work of a gifted novelist.” Most recently, Ritter launched his Substack, Josh Ritter’s Book of Jubilations, as a place to reflect and explore the ideas, stories, and creative moments that have shaped him.

For more information, please contact Asha Goodman, Catherine Snead 615.320.7753, or Carla Sacks 212.741.1000 at Sacks & Co.

I BELIEVE IN YOU, MY HONEYDEW TRACK LIST
1. You Won’t Dig My Grave
2. Honeydew (No Light)
3. Truth is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding)
4. Noah’s Children
5. Wild Ways
6. Thunderbird
7. Kudzu Vines
8. I’m Listening
9. The Wreckage of One Vision of You
10. The Throne

JOSH RITTER CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
October 1 /// Los Angeles, CA /// Masonic Lodge
(solo show) (SOLD OUT)
October 2 /// Los Angeles, CA /// Masonic Lodge (solo show)
October 3 /// San Francisco, CA /// The Chapel
October 3-5 /// San Francisco, CA /// Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
October 7 /// Portland, OR /// The Old Church (solo show) (SOLD OUT)
October 8 /// Portland, OR /// The Old Church (solo show) (SOLD OUT)
October 10 /// Seattle, WA /// St. Mark’s Cathedral (solo show)
October 11 /// Moscow, ID /// University of Idaho
Admin Auditorium (solo show) (SOLD OUT)
October 12 /// Moscow, ID /// Kenworthy Performing
Arts Centre (solo show) (SOLD OUT)
November 1 /// Rochester, NY /// Concerts at Beston Hall
November 2 /// Grand Rapids, MI /// St. Cecilia Music Center
November 3 /// Ann Arbor, MI /// The Ark
November 4 /// Cincinnati, OH /// Taft Theatre
November 6 /// St. Louis, MO /// The Sovereign
November 7 /// Chicago, IL /// Thalia Hall
November 8 /// Minneapolis, MN /// Fitzgerald Theater
November 9 /// Des Moines, IA /// Hoyt Sherman Place
November 12 /// Pittsburgh, PA /// Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
November 13 /// Washington, D.C. /// Lincoln Theatre
November 14 /// Philadelphia, PA /// Keswick Theatre
November 15 /// Boston, MA /// Citizens House of Blues Boston
November 16 /// New York, NY /// Brooklyn Steel
March 30 /// St. Albert, AB /// The Arden Theatre (solo show)

*with special guest Bhi Bhiman

www.joshritter.com