Divine Providence (11th Anniversary Edition) Deer Tick

• 1 The Bump (2022 Remaster) 03:26
• 2 Funny Word (2022 Remaster) 04:45
• 3 Let's All Go to the Bar (2022 Remaster) 03:05
• 4 Clownin Around (2022 Remaster) 03:54
• 5 Main Street (2022 Remaster) 03:50
• 6 Chevy Express (2022 Remaster) 03:47
• 7 Something to Brag About (2022 Remaster) 02:16
• 8 Walkin Out the Door (2022 Remaster) 03:34
• 9 Make Believe (2022 Remaster) 03:27
• 10 Now It's Your Turn (2022 Remaster) 04:29
• 11 Electric (2022 Remaster) 04:13
• 12 Miss K. (2022 Remaster) 03:23
• 13 Mr. Cigarette (2022 Remaster) 02:32
• 14 Main Street (Band Acoustic) 03:50
• 15 Born at Zero (Band Acoustic) 04:35
• 16 Virginia Gal (Band Acoustic) 03:38
• 17 Chevy Express (Solo Acoustic) 03:41
• 18 Electric (Solo Acoustic) 04:31
• 19 Born at Zero (2022 Remaster) 03:48
• 20 Walls (2022 Remaster) 06:05
• 21 Virginia Gal (2022 Remaster) 04:23
• 22 She's Not Spanish (2022 Remaster) 04:02
• 23 Main Street (Acoustic 2022 Remaster) 03:30
• 24 Bury Deep 03:48
• 25 Cake and Eggs 02:56
• 26 Hope Is Big (2011 Version) 04:06
• 27 Mr. Cigarette (Alternate Version) 02:15
• 28 Make Believe (Studio Demo) 03:28
• 29 Now It's Your Turn (Studio Demo) 04:16
• 30 Divine Providence (feat. Longmont Potion Castle) 05:10
• Total Runtime 01:54:43

Info for Divine Providence (11th Anniversary Edition)

This is the 4th album from Deer Tick and a pivotal moment for the band. With a couple lineup changes over the years, they started to speed things up a bit on Divine Providence; not that they shed their blues-tinged country rock sound entirely, but the album has an even split of fast stompers and mid-tempo country bar howls. The original 12 songs on the album are about as close as you can get to a beer drenched show with the band; the addition of the 5 songs from the Tim EP and the 12 bonus tracks of alternate versions, outtakes and rarities make for a close encounter with a lost weekend with the band. The original album was produced by Adam Landry and Justin Collins at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and this edition was remastered by John Baldwin at John Baldwin Mastering in 2022.

Naturally, after so many years of critic praising (and making fun of) them for their folk and country sounds and hardly ever mentioning the fact that they've also recorded virtually dozens of other kinds of music, the band wanted to make a record that was true to their live set (which has gained some notoriety): raw, loud, heartfelt, and completely uninterested in whatever the hell the rest of the music industry is up to. The results are unlike anything you've ever heard on a Deer Tick album.

Following the September 2007 release of his first album, War Elephant, McCauley's Deer Tick project began earning comparisons to Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, and Uncle Tupelo. Although originally released via FEOW! Records, War Elephant was reissued in late 2008 by Partisan Records who then put out the band's two follow-up insightful excursions into unapologetic Americana: 2009's Born on Flag Day and 2010's The Black Dirt Sessions. The band's fourth studio outing, Divine Providence, arrived the following year, and featured 12 rowdy and raucous originals that found inspiration more along the lines of the raw power that the Stones and the Stooges had to offer.

To produce this Divine Providence, the band recruited the team of Adam Landry and Justin Collins, who produced McCauley’s side-project Middle Brother‘s debut album. The results are unlike anything you’ve heard on a Deer Tick album, but the Rhode Islanders achieve something much truer to their live sound. Distorted guitars are aplenty, and guitarist Ian O’Neil and drummer Dennis Ryan even take lead vocal duties for the first time on record. You can practically smell the sweat and the beer, and Shit, you may even hear a guitar or two break in there somewhere! It’s got a little Exile, a little In Utero, and even a little Nilsson Schmilsson, but it’s 100% Deer-Fucking-Tick in their purest, and most carefree form. The fact that it's the first album they’ve recorded in their home state doesn't hurt either. GAH!!! No need to over-think this shit!!! Moving on…

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Each new Deer Tick record has stood as a progressive milestone for frontman John McCauley and the Providence, Rhode Island-based band (guitarist Ian O’Neil, bassist Christopher Dale Ryan, keyboardist Rob Crowell, and drummer Dennis Ryan), but Negativity represents an epic leap forward on virtually all fronts. Recorded earlier this year in Portland, Oregon with legendary producer/musician Steve Berlin (The Blasters, Los Lobos, and last year’s McCauley side project, Diamond Rugs), the album is McCauley’s most personal work thus far as well as the band’s most undeniable and universal, their famously freewheeling musical approach refined here into a gloriously cohesive whole.

Negativity was penned over the course of a genuinely eventful 2012, an annus horribilus in which McCauley’s father pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and tax fraud, ultimately leading to a prison sentence. As if that weren’t enough, McCauley’s wedding engagement collapsed under the weight of his own excessive behavior and impossible lifestyle. Like any true artist, McCauley channeled his anger, sadness, and regret into his work, resulting in what can be safely declared his finest collection of songs to date, impassioned and interior and increasingly mature, both as expression of emotion as well as pure unadulterated songcraft.

Deer Tick – sounding as sure-footed as one would expect from a band known for spending a couple of hundred nights each year on stage – more than match the strength of the material by taking a more detailed approach than on some of the breakneck recordings of their past. From the sparkling baroque pop of “The Dream’s In The Ditch” to the full-blown Memphis showstopper, “Trash,” Negativity sees the Tick bridging boozy punk, AM gold, bar band blues, country soul, and whatever else catches their fancy into their own profoundly American rock ‘n’ roll. Additional sonic color comes courtesy of magnificently arranged brass accompaniment by Austin, Texas’s GRAMMY®-winning Latin fusion collective, Grupo Fantasma.

While Deer Tick have been rightfully hailed for their raucous rave-ups and substance-fueled fervor,Negativity places considerable focus on the band’s nuanced and tender side, with notable highlights including the wrenching breakup ballad, “Hey Doll,” and “In Our Time,” a timeless country tearjerker featuring duet vocals from McCauley’s good friend, singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton. At once heartbreaking, fist-pumping, and indeed, life-affirming, Negativity stands as a genuine high water mark for Deer Tick – a defining collection from a band driven by an undying faith in rock ‘n’ roll’s evergreen power of redemption and transcendence.

This album contains no booklet.