Poseidon and the Bitter Bug is the eleventh studio album by Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls

The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

, released on March 24, 2009 by Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

. The title is drawn from lines in tracks "Fleet of Hope" and "Second Time Around" – "You're all washed up when Poseidon

Poseidon

Poseidon was the god of the sea, and, as "Earth-Shaker," of the earthquakes in Greek mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon...

 has his day" and "I've been bitten by the bitter bug."

Track listing

1. "Digging for Your Dream" (Emily Saliers
   Emily Saliers
   Emily Saliers is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments.-Background:...
   
   )- 3:57
2. "Sugar Tongue" (Amy Ray
   Amy Ray
   Amy Elizabeth Ray is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released four albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon Records....
   
   ) – 3:37
3. "Love of Our Lives" (Saliers) – 3:51
4. "Driver Education" (Ray) – 2:18
5. "I'll Change" (Saliers) – 3:23
6. "Second Time Around" (Ray) – 4:12
7. "What Are You Like?" (Saliers) – 2:51
8. "Ghost of the Gang" (Ray) – 3:17
9. "Fleet of Hope" (Saliers) – 4:27
10. "True Romantic" (Ray) – 4:11

Deluxe Version bonus tracks

11. "Ghost of the Gang" (Acoustic Version) – 3:10
12. "I'll Change" (Acoustic Version) – 3:58
13. "Sugar Tongue" (Acoustic Version) – 3:47
14. "Love of Our Lives" (Acoustic Version) – 3:46
15. "Salty South" (Ray) – 4:17
16. "Digging for Your Dream" (Acoustic Version) – 3:22
17. "Second Time Around" (Acoustic Version) – 4:43
18. "What Are You Like?" (Acoustic Version) – 2:50
19. "Driver Education" (Acoustic Version) – 2:21
20. "Fleet of Hope" (Acoustic Version) – 4:31
21. "True Romantic" (Acoustic Version) – 3:56

Personnel

Indigo Girls

• Amy Ray
  Amy Ray
  Amy Elizabeth Ray is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released four albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon Records....
  
   – Vocals, songwriting, guitar, mandolin
• Emily Saliers
  Emily Saliers
  Emily Saliers is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments.-Background:...
  
   – Vocals, songwriting, guitar

Additional musicians

• Mitchell Froom
  Mitchell Froom
  -Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...
  
   – Keyboards
• Clare Kenny
  Clare Kenny
  Clare Kenny is a British musician who has been bassist for a number of groups from the 1980s to the present day, including:* Amazulu* Shakespears Sister* Orange Juice* Coming up Roses* Indigo Girls* Sinéad O'Connor* Damien Dempsey* Andrea Corr...
  
   – Bass guitar
• Matt Chamberlain
  Matt Chamberlain
  Matthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
  
   – Drums

Production

• David Boucher
  David Boucher
  David Boucher is a professional French road cyclist, currently riding for Omega Pharma-Lotto.-Palmarès:2004200520092010-References:* at Omega Pharma-Lotto...
  
   – Engineer
• Mitchell Froom – Producer

External links

• Blog posting by Emily on the making of the album
• Blog posting by Amy with video clip of Love of Our Lives rehearsal