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The Heart’s Swift Foot

Red Tail Ring

Album · 2013

The Heart’s Swift Foot is the third full-length studio album by Red Tail Ring, the Michigan duo of Laurel Premo (voice, fiddle, banjo, feet, dobro) and Michael Beauchamp-Cohen (voice, guitar, mandolin, banjo). It was released on 20 May 2013 and recorded in October 2012 and January 2013 at La Luna Studio in Kalamazoo by Ian Gorman; Premo mixed it. The band describes the songs as the product of two years of work, from 2011 to 2013, and the aim was a record that sounded as close to their live shows as possible.

The twelve tracks include the title song, “Ohio Turnpike,” “Katy Came Breezing,” “Suffer Every Sound” and “Ladies’ Choice Waltz.” All but two were written by Beauchamp-Cohen and Premo. The exceptions are Hazel Dickens’s “My Heart’s Own Love,” which closes the album, and “St. James Hospital,” a traditional ballad the duo first learned through the singing of Doc Watson. The band says they play those two songs to honor Watson and Dickens, who had recently died.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Ohio Turnpike 4:29
  2. 2 Katy Came Breezing 4:48
  3. 3 Dirt Triangle 4:00
  4. 4 The Heart’s Swift Foot 3:29
  5. 5 J in the Broom Straw 2:35
  6. 6 Queen of the West, And Other Stories 4:05
  7. 7 A Clearing in the Wild 4:47
  8. 8 Suffer Every Sound 3:28
  9. 9 Body Like a Bell 3:46
  10. 10 St. James Hospital 5:14
  11. 11 Ladies’ Choice Waltz 4:21
  12. 12 My Heart’s Own Love alt version 3:21

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