TR Ritchie: An American Songwriter
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THE DVD SONGS: Cafes I Have Known / Barefoot Waltz / Wild Horses / An Ireland Left Behind / Death and Taxes / Can You See the Moon/ Quiet Hands / Ready To Run / Somewhere To Begin / Back In the Days / Heaven / Meet You Halfway / Converging Into One / What A Little Time Can Do / Bearer of the Light / Whitebark / Poetry by TR / Homeground / Gadget Daddy / Oklahoma Bagpipes
PLUS: A Companion CD of TR Ritchie’s original recordings of the songs played by the musicians who gathered together for the January 18th, 2014 concert…a wonderful sampler of TR’s brilliant work, drawn from four of his five albums and a home recording.
A FILM BY PEABODY AWARD-WINNING FILM MAKER, DENNIS DOUGHERTY
“TR Ritchie: An American Songwriter”
A celebration of the life and music of the late, great award-winning recording artist, poet and touring musician…
“…I had a brilliant but terrible idea…” wrote film maker and long time TR friend, Dennis Dougherty seven months after TR passed. Dennis had just spent countless hours editing footage of the January 18th, 2014 concert, where musician friends from all over the country gathered to sing some of their favorite TR songs for him, just 11 days before his death. It was a stunning tribute, not only to TR’s music, but to the strong connections he forged during his more than 4 decades as a one-of-a-kind, extraordinarily gifted troubadour poet.
The “terrible” part was that the nearly completed concert film had given Dennis the inspiration to go through miles of tape he had shot of their travels over many years. That took a while. The “brilliant” part was that Dennis had unearthed the interviews, captured on road and field trips. These are never-before-seen nuggets of charm, wisdom and philosophy that would lend more of a sense of who the man was. He added “It will be well worth the wait and a monument to a true artist.”
It was indeed worth the wait. Dennis’ documentary brings the picture more clearly into focus, this amazing human being that was TR Ritchie…songwriter, poet, visual artist, tinker and thinker, keen observer of nature and beings, friend and brother, uncle, son and sweetheart.
Wild Horses
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THE SONGS: Heaven / Wild Horses / My Secret of Success / All My Troubles Seem Small / Stumble Into Grace / Money / Cactus Ed / A Delicate Balance / Love Bids The Hungry Come / An Ireland Left Behind / Tangled In A Spell / I’m Gonna Take It With Me
WILD HORSES REVIEWED
Going from busking at Pike Street Market to kicking it at Kerrville, Napa and Walnut Valley, this unreconstructed folkie sounds like the folk music we’d have been listening to all along if Alice’s Restaurant hadn’t become a hit. Ritchie writes, plays and sings with heart and conviction and an innocence that you wouldn’t expect from someone that’s been around a few rough and competitive blocks. A dreamer with at least seven toes on the ground, Ritchie is a very solid link on a very solid folkie chain that somehow manages to command your attention without demanding it. Killer stuff. – CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor & Publisher MIDWEST RECORD
My Father’s Wildest Dream
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THE SONGS: Gadget Daddy / A Fool Who Would Not Rush In / My Father’s Wildest Dream / Let This Mighty River Roll / Someone Is Watching Over You / Have You Seen This Woman / It’s A Funny World / I Ain’t Got The Blues / Something That I Ate / Why Does Love Make Me Stupid / Now The Words Come So Easy / Quiet Hands
Homeground
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THE SONGS: Death And Taxes / Salvation Annie / Homeground / Rule Number One / Can You See The Moon / Table For One / Decomposing The Blues / What A Little Time Can Do / Hard Luck Mine / Cafes I Have Known / Barefoot Waltz / Hole In The World / Farmer / Somewhere To Begin
Changing of the Guard
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THE SONGS: Heart Has A Will / Changing Of The Guard / Whitebark / Ready To Run / Meet You Halfway / Corner Of My Heart / Lignt On The Water / Nothing To Regret / Back In The Days / Stone Born To Roll
Not Just Another Pretty Songwriter
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This is where it all began. Released on cassette in 1984, the album has been remastered for CD. A wonderful collection of humorous, acerbic, insightful songs.
THE SONGS: Cannibal Quickstep / Girl Of My Dreams / Dear Jane / Those People / Happily Ever After / Empty Pair Of Shoes / John Loves Mary / It Ain’t The Game / Too-Loose Lucy / Midnight Rendezvous / Easy Come; Easy Go
Works On Paper
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50 poems, 65 illustrations by TR Ritchie. Paperback, published by Whitebark Press.