Batten the Hatches

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Batten the Hatches
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Studio album by
Released2005 (Canada)
Genre Indie, folk rock
Length37:03
41:07 (reissue)
Label Self-released
Nettwerk (reissue)
Producer Ronen Ben Codor, Dan Romer
Jenny Owen Youngs chronology
The Scrappy Demo
(2004)
Batten the Hatches
(2005)
The Take Off All Your Clothes EP
(2007)
Original cover
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2005 self-release artwork
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Batten the Hatches is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs. Originally self-released in 2005 by Youngs, it was reissued with the bonus track "Drinking Song" two years later by the Nettwerk label. [5]

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The track "Fuck Was I" was used in the first episode of the second season of the Showtime series Weeds , to illustrate a scene in which main character Nancy Botwin, a part-time marijuana dealer, discovers that her new lover is in fact a DEA agent. This appearance reportedly led to sales of the album increasing from between five and ten per week to between twenty and thirty per day. [6]

The album was listed as one of Guardian Unlimited's "Greatest Albums You've Never Heard" in a feature in November 2006. [7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Jenny Owen Youngs.
  1. "Porchrail" – 1:45
  2. "From Here" – 2:16
  3. "Fuck Was I" – 3:30
  4. "Lightning Rod" – 3:27
  5. "Voice on Tape" – 3:03
  6. "P.S." – 1:52
  7. "Bricks" – 5:00
  8. "Drinking Song" – 3:38
  9. "Woodcut" – 4:18
  10. "Coyote" – 3:14
  11. "Keys Out Lights On" – 5:00
  12. "Woodcut (The Age of Rockets remix)" – 4:04
    • Remix by Andrew Futral

Personnel

Performance

Recording

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Canada2005Self-releasedCD
Canada, UKApril 10, 2007 Nettwerk CD0 6700 30648 2 8

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