Ritt & Wilder Deitz (CD release), Vegan Steakhouse

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Mitch Deitz

Ritt and Wilder Deitz

Madison singer-songwriter Ritt Deitz and his son, multi-instrumentalist Wilder Deitz, return from a brief tour to celebrate the release of Hinge, their new album. On many cuts, Ritt's warm, laid-back vocals and rock-solid guitar work are accompanied mostly just by Wilder's piano or mandolin, and that stripped-back approach lets the moments depicted in the songs shine through. Opening is rock trio Vegan Steakhouse, who just released an album of their own, Steer in the Headlights, in April.

$15.

media release: Following a week-long tour across the south (shows in Louisville, Cincinnati, Vienna, Virginia, and Wilmington, North Carolina), Ritt and Wilder Deitz will play a CD release show at the North Street Cabaret.  The concert celebrates release of Hinge, Ritt's tenth album and the first fully father-son effort.

A regular performer in listening rooms and house concerts from Wisconsin to his native Kentucky, Ritt Deitz has been writing and recording since the age of eleven. The Onion’s AV Club called his songs “concurrently earthy, ethereal and intelligent” and compared him to songwriters Greg Brown and Bruce Cockburn. Madison, Wisconsin’s Isthmus says, “Deitz combines rugged mountain sonics with an aesthetic that’s closer to ragtime than anything else."Cincinnati’s City Beat said Ritt’s “smart, perceptive and poetic songwriting […] glows with an aura similar to Springsteen at his most organic.”

Ritt is joined in this set by his son Wilder Deitz, (piano, mandolin), neo-soul and traditional player and founder of the Wilder Deitz School for Creative Music. Wilder has played with his dad since Ritt’s After the Mountains tour in 2006. 

HINGE will be released on May 12.

Opening act is Vegan Steakhouse.