''Undercurrent'' is the fourth studio album by American singer–songwriter
Sarah Jarosz
Sarah Jarosz ( ; born May 23, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter from Wimberley, Texas. Her first album, ''Song Up in Her Head'', was released in 2009 . The album was released in 2016 by
Sugar Hill Records. The album and one song were nominated for three
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...
s, winning two.
Critical reception
Thom Jurek of
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...
writes that "Jarosz reaches through her musical and personal histories with vulnerability and willingness. She comes out on the other side with songs that possess narrative savvy, melodic invention, and a refreshing sense of self-assuredness".
Jim Fusilli of the ''
Wall Street Journal
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'' finds her "country–flavored folk songs" to be "direct, unadorned and thoroughly beautiful".
Accolades
In 2016 the album won the Grammy for
Best Folk Album
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and was nominated for
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The song "House of Mercy" received the Grammy for
Best American Roots Performance at the
59th Annual Grammy Awards.
Track listing
Personnel
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Sarah Jarosz
Sarah Jarosz ( ; born May 23, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter from Wimberley, Texas. Her first album, ''Song Up in Her Head'', was released in 2009 – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, octave mandolin, banjo
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Luke Reynolds
Luke Reynolds (born April 20, 1979) is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, artist, writer and producer.
Career Studio work
As a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, he has worked with Sharon Van Etten, The Staves, Adrian Utley, ...
– acoustic and electric guitars, pedal steel, vocals
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Jedd Hughes
Jedd Hughes (born in Quorn, Australia) is an Australian singer, songwriter, session musician, and record producer.
Early life
Hughes grew up in Quorn, where he grew up listening to his father's country records. He won a local country music ...
– acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
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Mark Schatz – bass guitar
Additional musicians
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Parker Millsap – acoustic guitar, vocals (track 6)
* Tim Lauer – B3 organ (track 6)
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Aoife O'Donovan – guitar, vocals (track 10)
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Sara Watkins
Sara Ullrika Watkins (born June 8, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of Nickel Creek, the progressive bluegrass group she formed with her brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile. In addi ...
– fiddle (track 10)
Technical personnel
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Gary Paczosa and Sarah Jarosz – producers
* Gary Paczosa and
Shani Gandhi
Shani Gandhi is an Australian music producer, engineer and mixer based in Nashville, Tennessee. A native of Perth, she moved to Ithaca, New York in 2007, to pursue a Bachelor of Music degree at Ithaca College. Her career in Nashville has paire ...
– engineers
* Gary Paczosa –
mixing
* Paul Blakemore –
mastering
Charts
References
External links
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2016 albums
Sarah Jarosz albums
Sugar Hill Records albums