New Music - McCarthy Trenching

Here’s a couple of new tunes for those who dig authentic sounding Americana. McCarthy Trenching is primarily the work of Dan McCarthy, who sounds uncannily similar to Mississippi John Hurt on “Mormon Girl Blues” - a finger-picked folk-blues song that could easily have been written 100 years ago. To get that old-timey feel McCarthy records his songs at home on an 8-track tape machine “mostly in the living room, because that’s where the piano is”. He’s joined on his new sophomore record Calamity Drenching by a talented assortment of Team Love and Saddle Creek stalwarts. The 3 tracks that have been released as promo mp3s are full of rich acoustics, sharp wit, and droll humor - and most of all a distinctive Midwestern voice singing songs about girls, alcohol, and cassette tapes. You can’t really have enough of those. It comes out 9/23. This is the good shit.

MP3 :: Mormon Girl Blues
MP3 :: Roasting Song
MP3 :: Cassette Tape Massacre
(from Calamity Drenching. Pre-order here)
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Fri 09.26.08 @ Haileys (Denton, TX) w/ Neva Dinova
Sat 09.27.08 @ Emos (Austin, TX) w/ Neva Dinova, Jose Gonzalez
Mon 09.29.08 @ Rhythm Room (Phoenix, AZ) w/ Neva Dinova
Thu 10.02.08 @ Hemlock Tavern (San Francisco, CA) w/ Neva Dinova
Fri 10.03.08 @ Silver Moon Brewing (Bend, OR) w/ Neva Dinova
Sat 10.04.08 @ Towne Lounge (Portland, OR) w/ Neva Dinova
Sun 10.05.08 @ Tractor Tavern (Seattle, WA) w/ Neva Dinova
Wed 10.08.08 @ Kilby Court (Salt Lake City, UT) w/ Neva Dinova
Thu 10.09.08 @ The Hi Dive (Denver, CO) w/ Neva Dinova
Fri 10.10.08 @ Waiting Room (Omaha, NE) w/ Neva Dinova
Sat 10.11.08 @ Vaudeville Mews (Des Moines, IA) w/ Neva Dinova
Fri 10.17.08 @ The Double Door (Chicago, IL) w/ Will Hoge, the everybodyfields
Sat 10.18.08 @ Beachland Ballroom (Cleveland, OH) w/ Will Hoge, the everybodyfields
Sun 10.19.08 @ State Theatre (State College, PA) w/ Will Hoge, the everybody fields
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