Raleigh Ritchie Returns With Third Single of the Year, “Lucky”

Jacob Anderson has been on a lifelong journey of self-acceptance. In 2013, under the stage name Raleigh Ritchie, he formally invited the world to join him with the release of the EP, The Middle Child. His debut album that came three years later, You’re A Man Now, Boy, provided even more starkly honest insight into the struggles with mental health, self-destructive habits, and self-esteem that started in his adolescence and continued into adulthood, even as the album was being pressed and sold. The release of his follow-up LP in 2020, Andy, offered a careful optimism found on the other side of getting married to his longtime girlfriend and a second try at therapy that helped him seek out the patience and understanding for himself that he lacked in his youth.

This year, Ritchie has made a habit out of dropping a new song onto the masses every few months out of nowhere. In June, he released “I’m Not Okay But I Know I’m Going to Be”, a song that felt like a thesis statement for Andy. He followed that up one month later with the surprise release of “Say What You Mean.” We were gifted with his third release of the year, “Lucky,” in the early hours of November 19th. With it, he hinted in a statement posted across a few different social media outlets that it’s a track that may have been penned closer to a valley than a peak. “It’s a hard song for me to talk about,” Ritchie admitted, “but you don’t need me to do that anyway – because it’s yours now and I wanted to share it with you.” 

Below, you can listen to “Lucky” which features Ritchie’s gentle, slightly-accented vocals over a stuttering, soulful beat and a vibrant brew of electronica and r&b (r&b&e, if you will).