Shovels & Rope, the musically adventurous husband-and-wife duo of Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, had plans to follow up 2019’s raucous By Blood with a simple, quiet, bare-bones album. But that idea went out the window when the pandemic hit and afforded them a rare opportunity to explore and experiment in their home studio.
“We’ve been going so hard for the past 10 years,” Trent tells Rolling Stone during a joint interview with Hearst. “You have to stay on the road to make living in the business, and we didn...
“We’ve been going so hard for the past 10 years,” Trent tells Rolling Stone during a joint interview with Hearst. “You have to stay on the road to make living in the business, and we didn...
- 2/27/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Americana duo Shovels & Rope have teamed up with singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten for a mesmerizing version of the Beach Boys’ “In My Room,” part of a new covers collection. Busted Jukebox Volume 3 will be released February 5th via Dualtone and marks married collaborators Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst’s third installment of reinterpreted songs.
In true Busted Jukebox fashion, Shovels & Rope’s take on “In My Room” is charmingly left-of-center, beginning with a strummed 12-string guitar and piling on layers of instrumentation, including snare drum and some low-end buzz,...
In true Busted Jukebox fashion, Shovels & Rope’s take on “In My Room” is charmingly left-of-center, beginning with a strummed 12-string guitar and piling on layers of instrumentation, including snare drum and some low-end buzz,...
- 1/27/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The roots-music duo Shovels & Rope will release a deluxe edition of their latest album By Blood in August, fleshed out with new acoustic recordings of five songs from the LP.
On Wednesday, the band consisting of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent previewed the stripped-down recordings with the premiere of “Carry Me Home.” The album version is a sweeping, lush reading. Here, they let their voices and the lyrics themselves provide the emotional wallop.
“It’s more of a big, cinematic-sounding record,” Trent said of By Blood in 2019. “We weren...
On Wednesday, the band consisting of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent previewed the stripped-down recordings with the premiere of “Carry Me Home.” The album version is a sweeping, lush reading. Here, they let their voices and the lyrics themselves provide the emotional wallop.
“It’s more of a big, cinematic-sounding record,” Trent said of By Blood in 2019. “We weren...
- 6/10/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Shovels & Rope sing about unfulfilled promise in their song “Mississippi Nothin’,” giving voice to a guy who has big dreams but no way to manifest them. The Americana duo further that theme in a new video for the song.
“I got an idea that’s gonna turn on the money hose,” goes a key lyric, which an actor playing the music video’s eager director takes to heart. He all but hijacks the shoot and foists his own vision — “I got ideas!” goes another centerpiece line — on Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent.
“I got an idea that’s gonna turn on the money hose,” goes a key lyric, which an actor playing the music video’s eager director takes to heart. He all but hijacks the shoot and foists his own vision — “I got ideas!” goes another centerpiece line — on Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent.
- 2/19/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Shovels & Rope have announced the lineup for their annual High Water Festival. The fourth installment of the music and food weekend is set for April 18th and 19th in the Americana duo’s homebase of North Charleston, South Carolina.
As in years past, Shovels & Rope, who will also perform, have curated an eclectic lineup that represents genres from rock to soul. Wilco, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brittany Howard, Mavis Staples, and Drive-By Truckers are all on the bill, along with Rufus Wainwright, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Strand of Oaks, the Felice Brothers,...
As in years past, Shovels & Rope, who will also perform, have curated an eclectic lineup that represents genres from rock to soul. Wilco, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brittany Howard, Mavis Staples, and Drive-By Truckers are all on the bill, along with Rufus Wainwright, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Strand of Oaks, the Felice Brothers,...
- 11/5/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Shovels & Rope scramble the idea of the concert film with the trailer for their upcoming project Shovels & Rope: The Movie. A mix of live performance and narrative, the film will be released August 2nd directly to fans and includes a download of 10 live songs.
Ahead of Shovels & Rope: The Movie‘s debut, the duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent premiere the film’s unconventional trailer, which opens with a voiceover — “For the purposes of protecting the innocent, we’ll just call this town any ol’ town Us of...
Ahead of Shovels & Rope: The Movie‘s debut, the duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent premiere the film’s unconventional trailer, which opens with a voiceover — “For the purposes of protecting the innocent, we’ll just call this town any ol’ town Us of...
- 7/15/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Shovels & Rope partners Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst were wrestling with how they should answer some of their daughter Louisiana’s questions. At three, she’s quickly grown into an inquisitive child — who now has a baby brother — and wanted to know more about some of the popular (and frequently gruesome) fairytales every kid hears.
“It’s like, Rapunzel has been kidnapped right at the beginning, as a little tiny baby, and locked in a tower,” says Trent, from the duo’s home base in Charleston, South Carolina, where...
“It’s like, Rapunzel has been kidnapped right at the beginning, as a little tiny baby, and locked in a tower,” says Trent, from the duo’s home base in Charleston, South Carolina, where...
- 4/18/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Shovels & Rope have released two new tracks from their forthcoming album By Blood, with “Mississippi Nuthin'” and “Carry Me Home” available for streaming.
Beginning with some floor-tom-pounding drums before abruptly jumping to briskly strummed acoustic guitar, the urgent “Mississippi Nuthin'” imagines a pair of acquaintances who have seen their circumstances reversed in the days since high school. One, a former star athlete, makes an elevator pitch to the other in hopes of getting rich and then lashes out with a reminder of their former stations when it doesn’t go his way.
Beginning with some floor-tom-pounding drums before abruptly jumping to briskly strummed acoustic guitar, the urgent “Mississippi Nuthin'” imagines a pair of acquaintances who have seen their circumstances reversed in the days since high school. One, a former star athlete, makes an elevator pitch to the other in hopes of getting rich and then lashes out with a reminder of their former stations when it doesn’t go his way.
- 3/5/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Shovels & Rope, the Americana duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, will release a new album this spring. Titled By Blood, the follow-up to 2016’s Little Seeds, is set to arrive April 12th.
The band previewed the album with the new song “The Wire.” A slinky mid-tempo rocker, the track finds Hearst offering a lyrical promise to not let someone down — even if, as she admits in the first verse, “I’ve been a disappointment from time to time.” As on every track save two on the 10-song By Blood,...
The band previewed the album with the new song “The Wire.” A slinky mid-tempo rocker, the track finds Hearst offering a lyrical promise to not let someone down — even if, as she admits in the first verse, “I’ve been a disappointment from time to time.” As on every track save two on the 10-song By Blood,...
- 1/15/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The road goes on for Tedeschi Trucks Band. After a busy 2018 and already with a hearty slate of winter and spring tour dates on the horizon, the versatile 12-piece outfit, led by the husband-and-wife team of guitarist Derek Trucks and blues singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi, have announced they will once again headline the multi-band Wheels of Soul Tour in the summer. Rolling across the country for the fifth straight year, the upcoming tour will feature support from Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke and Americana duo Shovels & Rope, a group also made up of married musical collaborators,...
- 12/10/2018
- by Jedd Ferris
- Rollingstone.com
Pickathon celebrated its 20th anniversary this past weekend. To put this in sharp perspective, Portland, Oregon’s four-day musical shindig has been around longer than either Bonnaroo or Coachella, the two standard-bearers in American music festivals. But despite its age, Pickathon doesn’t attract the same kind of attention as its peers — and that’s by design. Tucked away on a farm nestled in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, it’s a hard-to-find festival, with some stages requiring literal hikes to access. But its ruggedness is part of the charm,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- Rollingstone.com
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