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Produced by Grammy Award-winning musician Jason Isbell, Fever Breaks was recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A and features Isbell’s band, the 400 Unit. Of the album, Ritter shares with Rolling Stone, “The songs are very reflective of the times in which they were written,” he explains. “As we started coming together and playing, the songs that felt like they were gonna work really jumped out as obvious. From there on, after we recorded in August [2018] we had this really nice time to stop and listen and let the songs marinate a little bit. In that time, the world has just become even crazier. There’s a lot of the record that feels reflective of the moment it was in.”

In 2015 Ritter began a close collaboration with Bob Weir and went on to write or co-write many of the 12 songs on Weir’s acclaimed 2016 solo album, Blue Mountain. Pitchfork called the album “quietly adventurous, wise, and a welcome late-career turn,” while Entertainment Weekly described it as “a moving group of tunes worthy of any campfire.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Ground Don’t Want Me
2. Old Black Magic
3. On The Water
4. I Still Love You (Now And Then)
5. The Torch Committee
6. Silverblade
7. All Some Kind Of Dream
8. Losing Battles
9. A New Man
10. Blazing Highway Home