If you were to judge Shovels & Rope’s new record by its cover, you wouldn’t be wrong to think it was a full-blown kid’s album. As the third release in their cover series known as Busted Jukebox, this volume is […]
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On 2012’s O’ Be Joyful, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent of Shovels & Rope melded elements of punk, rock, and honky-tonk, tune after tune featuring hummable melodies and catchy hooks. Hearst and Trent each delivered cogent lead vocals, their […]
With so much happening during the past few weeks, there was not the time to hear from our favorite Pennsylvania contributor to this column, Mark J. Smith. Mark knows the Philadelphia Folk Festival well, and yet he always is discovering […]
Shovels & Rope @ Philadelphia Folk Festival
Shovels & Rope @ Philadelphia Folk Festival
Shovels & Rope @ Philadelphia Folk Festival
Considering the foreboding title of Parker Millsap’s newest album, The Very Last Day, it may make sense that he played in a cave two weeks ago. Millsap joined Kasey Chambers, the McCrary Sisters, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors at […]
On Little Seeds, Shovels and Rope (out October 7 on New West) pushes the envelope in both directions. The noisy, propulsive songs are noisier and more propulsive than ever, as the album-opening, wickedly backbiting “I Know” and the devastating “Invisible […]
This summer at Newport, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent (aka Shovels and Rope) hung out at the Museum Stage for an unannounced set of new material alongside longtime friends and road buddies Hayes Carll and Allison Moorer. They traded […]
Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
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