Culture: Just Joshing with the Corduroy Kid ; After Supporting Joan Baez at Symphony Hall in January, American Songwriter Josh Ritter Is Coming Back to Birmingham Tomorrow. Charlie Melvin Takes Him to Oxfam

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Following a short UK tour in February, which brought him to Wolverhampton's Little Civic, Idahoborn Josh Ritter has returned for nine more headlining dates, including his appearance at The Glee Club tomorrow.

'I just got done with about seven weeks of touring in the US,' the 27 year-old singer says. 'I was home for about 48 hours. I live north of Boston now, its really beautiful there. I'm so excited to be back over here, I can't wait to see Birmingham again. It's pretty much the same line up as before, Sam Kissirer, organ, piano and accordion and Zack Hickman, guitar and bass are still with me. The drummer, Darius Zelkha, who's also my manager, his wife has just had a baby boy, so I've got a great friend of mine, Dave Hingerty, who played on Hello Starling, who's playing with us instead of Darius.'

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Culture: Just Joshing with the Corduroy Kid ; After Supporting Joan Baez at Symphony Hall in January, American Songwriter Josh Ritter Is Coming Back to Birmingham Tomorrow. Charlie Melvin Takes Him to Oxfam

Ritter's band favour a retro sixties look, with a weakness for corduroy. 'Yeah, we're big fans of static electricity,' he laughs. Their frontman, on the other hand, has a fondness for an elderly grey suit that has clearly seen better days. 'You know, I think I found that suit in a thrift store in Spittlefield Market in London. I was ...

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