ARTIST: McCarthy Trenching
TITLE: McCarthy Trenching
LABEL: Team Love Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 148kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 43m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-04-24
RIP DATE: 2007-04-10
Track List
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1. I Am Not Long For This World 3:58
2. Headlines 3:41
3. XXX 2:35
4. Wedding Song 3:43
5. Cold Comfort 3:31
6. The Victories Of Ancestry 2:13
7. Hotel Lobby Bar 3:06
8. Dissolution 3:18
9. Michaela 4:02
10. Running Away Blues 1:58
11. The Wood Will Be A Wake Tonight 4:12
12. My Old Ways 3:31
13. It's Not Always Pretty 4:00
Release Notes:
Dan McCarthy has remained Omaha's best-kept secret for the past five
years-or-so, despite having toured with the likes of Mayday, Neva Dinova, The
Good Life, Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor, and Bright Eyes, and despite having
recorded with Cursive and Tilly and the Wall (Keys on the former's "Happy
Hollow," and accordion! on the latter's "Bottoms of Barrels").
McCarthy Trenching is what Dan does when he is not lending a hand (or both) to
his friends, and Trenching's epoymous debut may force McCarthy to finally
forfeit his secret status. The record is an amalgamation -- a best of, if you
will -- of two previously self-released titles and the results of five years of
songwriting.
Half of the album comes from his nine-song 2003 demo "Old Habits" that was
recorded by Ted Stevens in the bowels of an old white house that has since been
leveled; a mixture of bar songs and waltzes born of nights at a naugahyde stool.
The other songs, recorded over the two following years, were originally featured
on "It's Got Nothing to do with Drinking". Slide out from the bar stool, pack a
traveler in the coat, maybe light a cigarette (or two), and open scope against a
backdrop of piano, electric guitars and commanding acoustic melodies.
The result is "McCarthy Trenching," a mixture of tear-in-beer waltzes, anthemic
drinking songs, and restless tunes of longing that take you from the bar to the
road to the track to the morning after and back to the bar again, just in time
for happy hour.
Collaborators include Ted Stevens, Ryan Fox, Pat Oakes, Tim Kasher, Orenda Fink,
Adrianne Verhoeven, Steve Bartolomei, Alex McManus, Bill Hoover, Renee Ledesma
Hoover, and Mark Maziarz.