Shovels & Rope consists of two artists with music careers prior to joining forces. Cary Ann Hearst is an acclaimed singer/songwriter who has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition and had her song "Hell Bells" used in HBO's True Blood. Michael Trent is a celebrated solo artist and the former singer/guitarist of band The Films. O' Be Joyful is a raw, honest, gritty offering with pure energy, distinctive harmonies and stellar songwriting. In the past year the band has toured with Justin Townes Earle, Butch Walker, The Felice Brothers, Jason Isbell and Hayes Carll.
The architects of O' Be Joyful, singer/songwriters Michael Trent (the Films) and Cary Ann Hearst, the latter of whom landed a single, "Hell's Bells," in the 2010 season of True Blood, offer up a cacophony of Southern gothic, Alan Lomax and Lux Interior-inspired garage folk that is as fun as it is visceral. Raw, rowdy, and often surprisingly intimate, the debut album from Charleston, South Carolina-based duo Shovels and Rope shoves early country, bluegrass, and blues through an indie rock prism, resulting in a set of fiery, beer bottle-littered back-porch jams that blend the wily harmonies of Johnny and June with the lo-fi clang of Jack White.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Alternative Rock, Folk Rock
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Track Listings
| 1 | Birmingham |
| 2 | Keeper |
| 3 | O' Be Joyful |
| 4 | Hail Hail |
| 5 | Lay Low |
| 6 | Kemba's Got the Cabbage Moth Blues |
| 7 | Tickin' Bomb |
| 8 | Carnival |
| 9 | Shank Hill St |
| 10 | Cavalier |
| 11 | This Means War |
