Shotgun Singer is an album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer/songwriter Kris Delmhorst

Kris Delmhorst

Kris Delmhorst is an American singer-songwriter who is part of the Boston folk scene. She was involved in producing 1998's Respond compilation, a fundraiser for domestic violence groups, and it included her song Weatherman. In 1999, she released a live album with The Vinal Avenue String Band,...

, released in 2008.

History

Delmhorst recorded Shotgun Singer in a rural cabin with minimal recording gear by herself. Once completed, she brought in various players to add to the songs, including her husband Jeffrey Foucault

Jeffrey Foucault

Jeffrey Foucault is a singer-songwriter from Whitewater, Wisconsin. His 2001 debut album, Miles from the Lightning, won much praise from critics and helped to kick-start a career of tours across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Along the way, he has played with such artists as Greg Brown,...

 and friend and label-mate Peter Mulvey

Peter Mulvey

Peter Mulvey is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at...

. Those three had previously released Redbird

Redbird (Redbird album)

Redbird is the title of a recording by Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst and Peter Mulvey, released in 2003.-History:All three are artists on the Signature Sounds label and regularly toured together. Foucault and Delmhorst are married. The trio worked out many of the songs on the road allowing them...

together five years earlier.

Reception

Joe Vigilione of Allmusic wrote "... anyone dipping into a song like "Freediver" or any other random track on this disc is bound to be quite surprised at the extraordinary depth inside."

The Boston Herald

Boston Herald

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 stated in their review: "Perennial Boston Music Award nominee Delmhorst makes a stunning transformation by moving from the countrified folk of her previous three releases to a dreamier and denser sound brimming with atmosphere and muted-but-infectious melodies... Shotgun Singer is a work of lo-fi beauty, and evidence of an artist taking flight."

Track listing

All songs by Kris Delmhorst.

1. "Blue Adeline" – 4:28
2. "Heavens Hold the Sun" – 3:43
3. "To the Wire" – 4:02
4. "Midnight Ringer" – 4:13
5. "If Not for Love" – 3:27
6. "Riverwide" – 4:19
7. "1000 Reasons" – 4:33
8. "Birds of Belfast" – 4:57
9. "Oleander" – 3:05
10. "Kiss It Away" – 3:14
11. "Freediver" – 4:02
12. "Brand New Sound" – 3:26

Personnel

• Kris Delmhorst – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, organ, piano, cello, tambourine, mandolin, bass, vibraphone, keyboards, Fender Rhondes
• Jeffrey Foucault – acoustic guitar, banjo, slide guitar
• David "Goody" Goodrich – guitar loops
• Sam Kassirer – organ, piano, percussion, keyboards, vibraphone, Fender Rhodes
• Erin McKeown – requinto
• Peter Mulvey
  Peter Mulvey
  Peter Mulvey is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at...
  
  – electric guitar

Production

• Produced by Kris Delmhorst and Sam Kassirer
• Engineered by Danny Bernini, Justin Pizzoferrato, Andy Pinkham and Sam Kassirer
• Mastered by Jeff Lipton
• Mixed by Kristen Smith
• Photography by Jon Strymish, Jeffrey Foucault and Kris Delmhorst
• Design by Paul Fucik

External links

• Official Kris Delmhorst website
• Signature Sounds Recordings