The ONION says Ritt "works the same side of the street as Bruce Cockburn and Greg Brown." ISTHMUS' Tom Laskin calls Deitz's new record "carefully constructed" with an "angrier and more elemental side." Deitz plays straight-ahead original acoustic folk rock, most often with a quartet including his guitar, electric bass, percussion, piano/accordion, and hammered dulcimer, and has released five albums since 1999, the last two on Uvulittle Records. He plays principally in the Upper Midwest and Ohio Valley.

Sounds Like: Greg Brown, Richard Thompson

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Small Blue Green Letters, Ritt Deitz' latest recording and his fifth on the Uvulittle label, marks Deitz's return to stringed instruments and voices and recalls his first full-length release, Hillbilly (Bentback 1999, anthologized on the 2006 Uvulittle release Collected 1999-2000), exchanging Steve Burke's mandolin for Deitz's banjo and with the harmonies of backing vocalist Lindsey Hinkel Craig Totten's dobro work.