Hope Is a Thing with Feathers

Hope Is a Thing With Feathers
Studio album by Trailer Bride
Released September 23, 2003
Recorded Kudzu Ranch, Mebane, North Carolina
Genre Alternative Country
Length 42:35
Label Bloodshot Records
Producer Rick Miller, Trailer Bride
Professional reviews

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Trailer Bride chronology
High Seas
(2001)
Hope Is a Thing With Feathers
(2003)

Hope Is a Thing With Feathers is the fifth and final album by the Alternative Country band Trailer Bride. Its title is the first line of a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Reviews

Mojo Magazine (December 1, 2003): "3 stars out of 5 - [T]here's a mix of twisted folk rock, recalling a less skeletal Palace and early-Nick-Cave-in-a-cowboy-hat rock."

Track listing

All songs written by Melissa Swingle except noted.

  1. "Silk Hope Road" - 3:03
  2. "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" (Emily Dickinson, Daryl White) - 3:15
  3. "Skinny White Girl" - 4:47
  4. "Mach 1" (Melissa Swingle, Daryl White) - 2:18
  5. "Destiny" - 3:59
  6. "Lightning" - 3:37
  7. "Vagabond Motel" - 5:07
  8. "Quickstep" - 3:11
  9. "Shiloh" - 3:46
  10. "Drive with the Wind" - 2:45
  11. "Waking Dream" - 3:13
  12. "Mockingbird" - 3:34

Personnel

ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL