We Still Love Our Country

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We Still Love Our Country
EP by Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle
Released February 1, 2011
Recorded 2011
Genre Country, Americana
Length45:03
Label Ninth Street Opus
Producer Lee Townsend
Carrie Rodriguez chronology
Live & Circumstance
(2010)		We Still Love Our Country
(2011)		 Give Me All You Got
(2013)

We Still Love Our Country is the first EP released by Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle of Romantica. The album was produced by Lee Townsend and released by Ninth Street Opus. The collection consists of original songs and cover by artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Boudleaux Bryant and John Prine

Carrie Rodriguez American singer

Carrie Luz Rodriguez is an American singer-songwriter and the daughter of Texan singer-songwriter David Rodriguez and Texas painter Katy Nail, and is the granddaughter of prolific Texas essayist Frances Nail. She sings and plays the fiddle, mandobird and tenor guitar.

Romantica are an Americana band formed in 2002 by Ben Kyle. The band's members, past and present, have come from the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Mixing together elements of folk, rock, and Americana, Romantica creates a rich and unique sound. The original line-up consisted of Kyle, Luke Jacobs, Mark Hedlund (drums) and Christopher Becknell (violin). While the group's members and contributors have changed over the years, Kyle's vision, vocals and songwriting have been the consistent thread throughout the different iterations. To date, the band has recorded four albums.

Ninth Street Opus

Ninth Street Opus is an independent record label in Berkeley, California. Founded in 2008 by producer Wayne Skeen, Opus is a genre-agnostic label, with recordings that focus on artists with strong live musical performances. Their catalog’s recordings have dipped into folk, country, rock, jazz and alternative rock music genres. Opus offers management, tour support, Internet and traditional marketing and promotion, long term career and fan building and publishing.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Your Lonely Heart" (Ben Kyle)2:57
2."If I needed You" (Townes Van Zandt)4:15
3."Fire Alarm" (Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle)2:55
4."Big Kiss" (Chip Taylor)4:18
5."You're Still On My Mind" (Luke McDaniel)2:54
6."Unwed Fathers" (John Prine and Bobby Braddock)3:58
7."My Baby's Gone" (Hazel Houser)3:59
8."Love Hurts" (Boudleaux Bryant)4:16

Personnel

Fiddle musical instrument

Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

Tenor guitar small four-stringed guitar

The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was initially developed in its acoustic form by Gibson Guitar Company and C. F. Martin & Company so that players of the four-string tenor banjo could double on guitar.

Acoustic guitar type of guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

Production

Lee Townsend American record producer

Lee Townsend is an American independent music producer, curator, artist manager and co-owner of Songtone, specializing in recordings of singer-songwriters, contemporary composers, improvising musicians, and cross-cultural musical collaborations. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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