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Track List
01) Birmingham
02) Keeper
03) O' Be Joyful
04) Hail Hail
05) Lay Low
06) Kemba's Got the Cabbage Moth Blues
07) Tickin' Bomb
08) Carnival
09) Shank Hill St.
10) Cavalier
11) This Means War
01) Birmingham
02) Keeper
03) O' Be Joyful
04) Hail Hail
05) Lay Low
06) Kemba's Got the Cabbage Moth Blues
07) Tickin' Bomb
08) Carnival
09) Shank Hill St.
10) Cavalier
11) This Means War
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2012
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"O' Be Joyful" is the debut (as a duo) full length studio album from American folk duo Shovels & Rope, released July 31, 2012 on the Dualtone Records label.
The band recorded much of O' Be Joyful at home in 2011 during the rare downtime between touring jaunts. Additional tracking took place during their travels. The synthetic bass on the record's opening track "Birmingham" was recorded next to the sink at a Red Roof Inn near New Haven, CT. The organ solo on "Shank Hill St. was tracked in the van at approximately 70 mph somewhere on I-10 between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. And while sharing a bill in Louisville, KY, the electric Amanda Shires was wrangled into the duo's van to add fiddle parts to “Keeper” and “This Means War” in between soundcheck and showtime.
While Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent are both songwriters individually, O' Be Joyful finds them still discovering new strengths as a collaborative unit. "The songs on this album," Michael points out, "are the most we've ever written together. Many of them were birthed on the road. One of us would come up with a verse and say, 'I'm gonna drive for awhile, why don't you try to put a chorus on this?' And then we'd switch…kind of like our shows."
O' Be Joyful reached #123 on the Billboard 200.
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"O' Be Joyful" is the debut (as a duo) full length studio album from American folk duo Shovels & Rope, released July 31, 2012 on the Dualtone Records label.
The band recorded much of O' Be Joyful at home in 2011 during the rare downtime between touring jaunts. Additional tracking took place during their travels. The synthetic bass on the record's opening track "Birmingham" was recorded next to the sink at a Red Roof Inn near New Haven, CT. The organ solo on "Shank Hill St. was tracked in the van at approximately 70 mph somewhere on I-10 between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. And while sharing a bill in Louisville, KY, the electric Amanda Shires was wrangled into the duo's van to add fiddle parts to “Keeper” and “This Means War” in between soundcheck and showtime.
While Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent are both songwriters individually, O' Be Joyful finds them still discovering new strengths as a collaborative unit. "The songs on this album," Michael points out, "are the most we've ever written together. Many of them were birthed on the road. One of us would come up with a verse and say, 'I'm gonna drive for awhile, why don't you try to put a chorus on this?' And then we'd switch…kind of like our shows."
O' Be Joyful reached #123 on the Billboard 200.
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