Beauty Queen Sister

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Beauty Queen Sister
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 4, 2011
Recorded2011
Genre Folk rock
Length50:08
Label Vanguard
Producer Peter Collins, John Reynolds
Indigo Girls chronology
Holly Happy Days
(2010)
Beauty Queen Sister
(2011)
One Lost Day
(2015)
Singles from Beauty Queen Sister
  1. "Making Promises"
  2. "We Get to Feel It All"
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (63/100) [1]
Review scores
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The A.V. Club C+ [5]
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Paste (6.6/10) [7]
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Beauty Queen Sister is the 13th studio album by Indigo Girls, released on October 4, 2011 on Vanguard Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Share the Moon" – 3:34
  2. "John" – 4:22
  3. "Beauty Queen Sister" – 3:11
  4. "We Get to Feel It All" – 3:32
  5. "War Rugs" – 3:23
  6. "Gone" – 3:02
  7. "Mariner Moonlighting" – 3:36
  8. "Birthday Song" – 4:19
  9. "Feed and Water the Horses" – 4:30
  10. "Making Promises" – 3:19
  11. "Damo" – 4:07
  12. "Able to Sing" – 4:02
  13. "Yoke" – 5:09

Personnel

Indigo Girls
Additional Musicians
Additional Vocalists
Track 11 (Damo)
Production

Chart performance

The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Folk Albums chart, No. 14 on Top Rock Albums, and No. 36 on the Billboard 200, selling 11,000 in its debut week. The album has sold 42,000 copies in the US as of May 2015. [9]

Chart (2015)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [10] 36
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [11] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [12] 9
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [13] 23
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [14] 14

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