Firecracker is the second album by The Wailin' Jennys.
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.
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
- "The Devil's Paintbrush Road" (Annabelle Chvostek)
- "Glory Bound" (Ruth Moody)
- "Begin" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Things That You Know" (Ruth Moody)
- "Swallow" (Annabelle Chvostek)
- "Starlight" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Apocalypse Lullaby" (Annabelle Chvostek)
- "This Heart of Mine" (Ruth Moody)
- "Long Time Traveller" (Traditional) (Composed as the hymn tune "White" by Edmund Dumas)
- "Avila" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Some Good Thing" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Prairie Town" (Ruth Moody)
- "Firecracker" (Annabelle Chvostek)
Personnel
- Annabelle Chvostek: Vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin
- Nicky Mehta: Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
- Ruth Moody: Vocals, acoustic guitar, accordion, banjo
With:
- Christian Dugas: Drums
- Joe Phillips: Acoustic bass
- Mike Hardwick: Acoustic and electric guitars, dobro
- Kevin Breit: Electric guitar, National guitar, dobro, mandolin
- Richard Moody: Viola, violin
- Mark Mariash: Tambourine and additional drums
- Andrew Downing: Acoustic bass
- John Dymond: Electric bass
- Grant Johnson: Electric bass
- Jeremy Penner: Violin
- Brian McMillan: Electric and acoustic guitars
- Justin Abedin: Electric guitar
- David Travers-Smith: Trumpet, E-flat peck horn, Hammond M3 organ, percussion
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