Music Friday: "Swimmin' Time"

The wife-husband duo Shovels & Rope has a new album out this year. I've listened to it a few times and am enjoying it. 

Here's the title track from the album. 



And here are a couple of stanzas from the song:

And you can't help but wonder
how long it will be
before the restless ocean
comes lapping to
the branches of the trees


The money in your eyes
has left you blind.
You'll be the one drowning
when it's swimmin' time

Music Friday: "Gasoline" & "Birmingham"

I learned about the musical duo of Carrie Ann Hearst and Michael Trent from a post about Shovels and Rope on the fine music blog HearYa.

Shovels and Rope is one of those female-male collaborations that seem to be multiplying nowadays. Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, The Civil Wars, and now Shovels and Rope (Hearst and Trent).

It's hard to top the fine work of Welch and Rawlings, but Shovels and Rope might give them some scrappy competition. The duo's second album, O' Be Joyful, comes out at the end of the month.

Below you'll find "Gasoline" from their first album, and "Birmingham" is from their upcoming release.