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  • Release Date: 09/23/2008
  • Sales Rank: 131,563
  • Label: TEAM LOVE RECORDS
  • UPC: 810430013422

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Calamity Drenching

1LISTENTo an Aesthete Dying Young 2:20
2LISTENCassette Tape Massacre 2:52
3LISTENChristmas Song 2:59
4LISTENThe Most Attractive Disguise 1:51
5LISTENThunderstorm Blues 3:48
6LISTENRoasting Song 3:50
7LISTENA Keg of Beer and an Accordion 1:14
8LISTENScoop Shovel Blues 4:09
9LISTENMormon Girl Blues 3:05
10LISTENPerfect Moonlight 2:41
11LISTENDetritus 2:28
12LISTENSong for the Four Horsemen 5:52

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Like Dan Bern with a smaller set of pop sensibilities, Dan McCarthy pitches his speak/sing baritone against a backdrop of guitars, harmonies, barroom piano, and lo-fi percussion. Calamity Drenching shows the songwriter training his eye on the finer details of Nebraskan life, including full-day barbecues ("Roasting Song"), stormy weather ("Thunderstorm Blues"), and horse races ("Song for the Four Horsemen"). Intimacy often reigns supreme here, with songs like "Mormon Girl Blues" featuring little more than McCarthy's vocals and acoustic guitar. Nevertheless, there's a sonic and lyrical progression to Calamity Drenching that widens the palette introduced by McCarthy's 2007 debut. "Cassette Tape Massacre" deals with the tragic demise of an audiocassette while romanticizing media formats of years past, and "Scoop Shovel Blues" is an honest to God rock song, full of slapback echo and electric guitars. Perhaps there's an overabundance of blues songs on the album -- a likely result of the snowy, lonely winter during which these recording sessions took place -- but Calamity Drenching is still an enjoyable release, one that targets alt-country fans who like their music earthy, literate, and occasionally cunning. Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide

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