Josh Ritter and Martin Sexton at The Royal Oak Music Theatre

A few weeks ago, we attended our first actual concert at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, so this week we came back for an encore with Josh Ritter and Martin Sexton.  Pre-show, we made a pit stop at Siam Spicy for dinner (this is becoming our go-to non-Korean Asian fix!), where we both ordered the Drunken Noodle except Scottie opted for his with a little more spice.  Although we had a little rough patch at the beginning trying to order some satay that wasn't really "warmed up".

We arrived shortly after doors opened to the show, so we were able to get a decent standing/leaning spot in front of one of the railings although we probably could have made our way down to the front row if we really wanted.  We untappd our beers, which was quite amusing as they had tallboy Dos Equis with a lime!  "Stay thirsty, my friends."

Martin Sexton played about a 45 minutes set that kept us entertained, but often at times, went a little too far to the folksy side for us.  I looked up what genre of music he falls under and according to Wikipedia (which we should all know isn't the greatest source, but it will do for now), he's considered a blend of soul, gospel, country, rock, blues, and R&B.  We do give this guy some props for his beatboxing!  That  was quite impressive.  One man show rocking it.

Josh Ritter came out by himself with a guitar to set the tone for the evening.  Shortly after, the Royal City Band joined him in their stylish dress that reminded me of the Keane band and they rocked it out for roughly 2 hours (a half hour longer than Scottie bet me he'd last).  Unfortunately, I'm not as die hard of a fan as my good friend, Des, so I couldn't tell you the entire setlist, but I do know he was out promoting his new album, The Beast in Its Tracks.  He also played some of the ones I actually do know by name: Change of Time, Hopeful, Joy to You Baby, The Temptation of Adam, The Curse, To the Dogs or Whoever, Good Man, In Your Arms Again, etc.  With influences like Johnny Cash (strikingly, he wore all black to our show) and Bob Dylan and sounds like Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, and Ben Harper, it's hard not to like this guy.  Plus, he's just a simple country boy from Idaho who praised the crowd often for coming out.  We also noted his nerdy guitar playing!