With a personal take on country and folk that is distinctly California in nature, singer and songwriter Carly Ritter wouldn't have been out of place in the 1960s pop and folk world of artists like Jackie DeShannon or Buffy Sainte-Marie, and, as a graduate of Vassar, she has been as likely to cite Soren Kierkegaard as an influence on her songwriting as Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, or any of the other likely candidates. The daughter of actor John Ritter and the granddaughter of Tex Ritter, her childhood was one where creativity was encou...