Josh's "The Animal Years" is #1 on Stephen King's "Top Music Picks" for 2006

December 2, 2006.   Author Stephen King, writing for Entertainment Weekly magazine, has chosen Josh's album "The Animal Years" as the #1 album of the year.

We here at the Fansite and joshritter.com can't tell you how flattered and excited we are by Mr. King's choice and what he has to say about the album. You can read the entire column on Entertainment Weekly's website, HERE.

In King's column, titled "The A List: The Pop of King makes his top 10 music picks for all of 2006," he had this to say about Josh's album: The best album of the year in a walk, and maybe the best album I've heard in the last five. Mysterious, melancholy, melodic...and those are only the M's. Songs like "Girl in the War" simply do not leave the consciousness once they're heard, but the album's real gem is the strange and gorgeous "Thin Blue Flame." This is the most exuberant outburst of imagery since Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," in 1963. 'The Animal Years' is an amazing accomplishment.

Right on!