Firecracker (The Wailin' Jennys album)

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Firecracker
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 6, 2006
RecordedFall of 2005
Genre Folk
Label Festival
Producer David Travers-Smith
The Wailin' Jennys chronology
40 Days
(2004)
Firecracker
(2006)
Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House
(2009)
Professional ratings
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Firecracker is the second album by The Wailin' Jennys.

The Wailin' Jennys are a Canadian music group. They have released several albums and received two Juno Awards. The group has been featured several times on the American Public Media program A Prairie Home Companion and their album Firecracker peaked at number two on the Billboard Bluegrass charts, in 2006. Their album Bright Morning Stars peaked at number one on the Billboard Bluegrass charts, in 2011, and Fifteen peaked at number one on the Billboard Bluegrass charts, in 2017.

The album was rated the #2 folk album of 2006 in North America by total airplay, and the #1 Canadian album. The initial track, "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" by Annabelle Chvostek, was rated the #1 Canadian song for 2006 by total airplay. [2]

Annabelle Chvostek Canadian musician

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The album was nominated for the 2007 Juno Award for "Roots and Traditional Album of the Year by a Group" and for "Contemporary Folk Album of the Year" by the North American Folk Alliance.

Track listing

  1. "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" (Annabelle Chvostek)
  2. "Glory Bound" (Ruth Moody)
  3. "Begin" (Nicky Mehta)
  4. "Things That You Know" (Ruth Moody)
  5. "Swallow" (Annabelle Chvostek)
  6. "Starlight" (Nicky Mehta)
  7. "Apocalypse Lullaby" (Annabelle Chvostek)
  8. "This Heart of Mine" (Ruth Moody)
  9. "Long Time Traveller" (Traditional) (Composed as the hymn tune "White" by Edmund Dumas [3] )
  10. "Avila" (Nicky Mehta)
  11. "Some Good Thing" (Nicky Mehta)
  12. "Prairie Town" (Ruth Moody)
  13. "Firecracker" (Annabelle Chvostek)

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Richard Gillmann's Folk Music Charts (KBCS-FM)
  3. "Long Time Travelling / White [Elder Edmund Dumas] (Roud 5732)". mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 18 July 2018.