Firecracker (The Wailin' Jennys album)
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Released | June 6, 2006 | |||
Recorded | Fall of 2005 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Label | Festival | |||
Producer | David Travers-Smith | |||
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Firecracker is the second album by The Wailin' Jennys.
The album was rated the #2 folk album of 2006 in North America by total airplay, and the #1 Canadian album. The initial track, "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" by Annabelle Chvostek, was rated the #1 Canadian song for 2006 by total airplay.[2]
The album was nominated for the 2007 Juno Award for "Roots and Traditional Album of the Year by a Group" and for "Contemporary Folk Album of the Year" by the North American Folk Alliance.
Track listing
- "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" (Annabelle Chvostek)
- "Glory Bound" (Ruth Moody)
- "Begin" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Things That You Know" (Ruth Moody)
- "Swallow" (Annabelle Chvostek)
- "Starlight" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Apocalypse Lullaby" (Annabelle Chvostek)
- "This Heart of Mine" (Ruth Moody)
- "Long Time Traveller" (Traditional) (Composed as the hymn tune "White" by Edmund Dumas[3])
- "Avila" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Some Good Thing" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Prairie Town" (Ruth Moody)
- "Firecracker" (Annabelle Chvostek)
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Richard Gillmann's Folk Music Charts (KBCS-FM)
- ^ "Long Time Travelling / White [Elder Edmund Dumas] (Roud 5732)". mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 18 July 2018.