40 Days
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40 Days | |||||
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Studio album by The Wailin' Jennys | |||||
Released | August 10, 2004 | ||||
Recorded | Private Ear Recording, Winnipeg, Manitoba | ||||
Genre | Folk | ||||
Label | Red House Records | ||||
Producer | David Travers-Smith | ||||
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40 Days is the debut full length album from Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys. The lineup of the group at the time was Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta, and Cara Luft. This was the last recording to feature Luft who left the group the following year, she was replaced by Annabelle Chvostek.
Although the title, 40 Days appears as a line in the song "Something to Hold Onto", and traditionally has religious significance it was chosen for another reason. The title is actually the number of days it took the Jennys to record and refine the album and is a tribute to the experiences encountered during that time.
The album features three tracks contributed by each the band's three songwriters and a cover of Neil Young's "Old Man". The group rounds out the collection with the traditional farewell, "The Parting Glass".
The album received the 2005 Juno Award for "Roots & Traditional Album of the Year by a Group".
[edit] Track listing
- "One Voice" (Ruth Moody)
- "Saucy Sailor" (Traditional)
- "Arlington" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Beautiful Dawn" (Ruth Moody)
- "Untitled" (Cara Luft)
- "This is Where" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Old Man" (Neil Young)
- "Heaven When We're Home" (Ruth Moody)
- "Ten Mile Stilts" (Nicky Mehta)
- "Come All You Sailors" (Cara Luft)
- "Take it Down"
- "Something to Hold Onto" (Cara Luft)
- "The Parting Glass" (Traditional)