Artist: Big Harp
Album: White Hat
Bitrate: 233kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Saddle Creek
Genre: Indie
Size: 67.42 megs
PlayTime: 0h 38min 02sec total
Rip Date: 2011-09-24
Store Date: 2011-09-23
Track List:
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01. Nadine 3:48
02. Everybody Pays 3:16
03. Goodbye Crazy City 4:27
04. Steady Hand Behind the Wheel 3:05
05. All Bets Are Off 3:15
06. Some Old World I Used To Know 3:38
07. Here's Hoping 3:44
08. Let Me Lend My Shoulder 2:35
09. White Hat 2:15
10. Out in the Field 5:02
11. Oh Nadine 2:57
Release Notes:
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Big Harp is the by-product of a three year whirlwind for husband-and-wife duo
Chris Senseney (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (bass,
backing vocals). In those three years a boy from the western Nebraska cow town
of Valentine (pop. 2,800) and a girl born and raised in Los Angeles (pop.
8,000,000)...
Met.
Fell in love.
Made a baby boy.
Got married.
Made a baby girl.
Started a band.
The end result is White Hat, the full-length debut for Omaha's Saddle Creek. The
songs range from gun-in-her-garter saloon narratives and paranoid soul struts to
intimate ballads of quiet resignation and open-hearted love songs. The
recordings are raw and un-fussed over, with the spirited energy and honest
emotion of live performance. Drawing from the classic country and folk of
Senseney's childhood and anchored by Drootin's rock-solid rhythms and indie-punk
roots, White Hat contains echoes of artists from Townes Van Zandt to Nick Cave,
Willie Nelson to Captain Beefheart. Fitting for a couple in no rush to slow
down, White Hat was recorded at LA's Nightingale studios in a mere three days.
Rilo Kiley bassist Pierre de Reeder recorded the album and drums were handled by
Chris Phillips.
While currently based in Los Angeles, the pair have long connections to Omaha.
Drootin, a member of The Good Life, has toured and recorded with acts such as
Bright Eyes, She & Him, and Azure Ray. It was actually on a tour with The Good
Life that she was swept off her feet by the handsome guitarist in the opening
band, Art in Manila. Drootin is also the founder of Omaha Girls Rock!, a rock
'n' roll camp for girls that opens its doors in July 2011.