Calamity Drenching
McCarthy Trenching
Engineer: Ben Brodin, Steve Bartolomei
Team Love, 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: TL34
EAN: 0810430013422
UPC: 810430013422
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Personnel: Dan McCarthy (vocals); Pearl Lovejoy Boyd, Orenda Fink (vocals); Steve Bartolomei (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Ted Stevens (12-string guitar); Ben Brodin (pump organ, bass instrument); Tim Jensen, Stefanie Drootin (drum).
Audio Mixer: Ian Aeillo.
The second full-length for Omaha scenester Dan McCarthy is a bluesy, largely stripped down take on Trenching's alt-country leanings. "Cassette Tape Massacre," in particular, has a serious, Steve Earle stomp to it, but ironically it also boasts the album's most trivial subject matter in order to channel all that energy. But it's lo-fi acoustic journeys like "Mormon Girl Blues" that captivate the most, especially when the traditional blues-guitar patterns help communicate the life of a spiritually wandering white Nebraskan.
