Mormon Girl Blues - Calamity Drenching

Credits

Dan McCarthy — singing, playing
Stevie ‘Heat’ Bartolomei — electric guitar (2,8,11); acoustic guitar (9)
Ben Brodin — drums (3,6,8); pump organ (12); ‘Yeah, I thought it was pretty.’
Stefanie Drootin — bass (2,11)
Tim Jensen — drums (2,11)
Pearl Lovejoy Boyd — singing (4,6)
Ted Stevens — twelve-string guitar (12)
Orenda Fink — singing (3)

Recorded to 8-track tape, mostly in the living room, except tracks 2 & 11, which were recorded to 8-track by ‘Sleepy’ Steve Bartolomei at D-Rocks.

Mixed by Ian Aeillo at ARC in Omaha Nebr.

Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering in Omaha Nebr.

Layout and lettering by Jadon Ulrich.

Photos taken by Mike McCarthy.

Thanks again to the essential Ted, to Steve and Ben for engineering help, and to everyone else who provided microphones and instruments: Orenda Fink, Jake Bellows, Conor Oberst, Roger L. Lewis, Ryan Fox, and Mike & Nancy McCarthy.

All songs by McCarthy Trenching (SESAC).

Don’t give me none of that rice beer — save the barley and hops for me.
And if you don’t do Dublin, I also take Kentucky and Tennessee.

Gimme a bottle or a can, either way — I really don’t care.
Tear the top off that can so it don’t tear out my mustache hair.

On my way walking home, a pretty girl hollers across the street.
It’s been a long morning, and I’ve had nothing to eat.

Why’d you send a sweet young thing to speak to a creep like me?
For all she knows, I could be listed on some kind of registry.

She’s wearing a skirt so long, but I could fall in love with her eyes.
We could spend a little time together, see which one of us testifies.

If God’s gonna forgive my sins, He’ll forgive yours too.
I’m out looking for trouble — Trouble just found you.

Let me be your little god till you big God comes.
The nice thing about us little gods — you can always have more than one.