Shovels & Rope bust the "Jukebox" (or is it "Juicebox"?)

"Busted Jukebox Vol. 1" (2015) and "Vol. 2" (2017) featured the duo (Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, who also produced) teaming up with other artists to record a series of cover songs with new arrangements.

On "Busted Jukebox, Volume 3," Shovels & Rope invited artists who are also parents (hence the "Juicebox" and cover art) to record a selection of songs with children in mind. The album contains a diverse collection of tracks that have significant meaning to their family.

Shovels & Rope is joined by Sharon Van Etten, M. Ward, The War and Treaty, John Paul White, members of Deer Tick, The Secret Sisters, The Felice Brothers and T. Hardy Morris. The songs range from classic lullabies to REM and Janis Joplin.

A rendition of The Beach Boys' "In My Room" featuring Van Etten was just released. Trent used to listen to the original to help him fall asleep when he was a child. Once a parent, he and Hearst sang it for their daughter regularly when she got her own room.

Apparently they were not the only parents looking to the Brian Wilson classic for an assist. "My heart swelled when Cary Ann & Michael reached out to me to sing "In My Room" for their Busted Jukebox series," said Van Etten. "As a mom, there are 'go-to' songs that help calm my son down, and there are nights where I just sing the same song over and over. This is a song that is so personal to me, as we have listened to a lot of The Beach Boys music with our child and to share a sentiment of calm and exhaustion, sleep and frustration - this cover embodies it all. Means so much to have been asked by musician parents that are trying to figure it out in all this chaos as well. All we can do is keep doing what we love, sharing optimism and hope and supporting one another during these trying times."

The track list iss:
"Hush Little Baby" Shovels & Rope
"In My Room" featuring Sharon Van Etten
"What A Wonderful World" featuring John Paul White
"You Are My Sunshine" featuring Ian and James Felice of The Felice Brothers "Cry Baby" featuring John McCauley and Dennis Ryan of Deer Tick
"My Little Buckaroo" featuring M. Ward
"Everybody Hurts" featuring T. Hardy Morris
"Mother Earth and Father Time" featuring The Secret Sisters
"The Ants Go Marching" featuring Shrimp Records Family Band
"Tomorrow" featuring The War and Treaty