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Music Review: 'Hello Starling' from Josh Ritter

Published December 10, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter's new CD, Hello Starling, has drawn comparisons to Bob Dylan. The CD, Ritter's second, offers songs that use basic, acoustic, instrumentation to back up Ritter's introspective lyrics. Meredith Ochs has a review.

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