Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have spent the last decade or so singing sweetly, rowdily anthemic folk-country music together, most recently under the name Shovels & Rope. Hear them perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival. "Keeper" "Cavalier" "Shank Hill Street" "When I" "O' Be Joyful" "Kemba's Got The Cabbage Moth Blues" "Forsaken Blues" "Gasoline" "Tell The Truth" "Hail Hail" "Birmingham"

Shovels & Rope, Live From The Newport Folk Festival, 2013

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