Singer/songwriter Josh Ritter started making a name for himself at the dawn of the new millennium with a thoughtful indie-folk approach that mated masterful wordplay with from-the-gut emotion. And though he became best known for gentle, reflective tunes like the moving, melancholy "Girl In the War" and hazy, carousel-like “The Curse,” Ritter has proven that he can lay his sophisticated songpoetry atop an infectious groove when the spirit moves him, on tunes like the dizzyingly word-drunk, straight-up funky "Getting Ready to Get Down" and the unhinged “To the Dogs or Whoever.”