''Build Me Up From Bones'' is the third studio album by American
folk and
bluegrass singer-songwriter
Sarah Jarosz, released on September 24, 2013 on
Sugar Hill Records
Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label.
It was founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1978 by Barry Poss and David Freeman, the owner of County Records and Rebel Records. Poss acquired full control of Sugar Hil ...
. It was recorded and mixed at Minutia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, by Gary Paczosa. This is the third studio collaboration between Jarosz and Paczosa. ''Build Me Up from Bones'' was nominated for Best Folk Album at the
56th Annual Grammy Awards
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards presentation was held on January 26, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show was broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT and was hosted for the third time by LL Cool J. The show was moved to January to avoid comp ...
, and its title track was nominated for Best American Roots Song.
Track listing
Charts
*Top Folk Albums – #19
*Americana – #1
*FMQB Top 200 – #159
*FMQB Non-Comm – #20
Reception
"''Build Me Up From Bones'' is an organic masterwork for Jarosz, a warm, nuanced collection that wraps and enchants the listener. If you're curious what brilliant natural talent paired with an ongoing commitment to learn and grow can produce, Sarah Jarosz's latest is a perfect example." – Stereo Subversion
"With ''Build Me Up From Bones'' (Sugar Hill) her third album, she moves past precocity toward the full bloom of artistry: the singing is more deeply self-assured, and the songs are grounded in truer emotional terrain." – ''
The New York Times''
"Her latest is more organic, a trio setting that emphasizes the value of space. The songs breathe. From the perspective of composition and structure, the music is more complex and nuanced, too. Jarosz's voice, warm and elastic, rings out strong and clear." – ''
The Boston Globe''
Personnel
* Sarah Jarosz – vocals on all tracks
;"Over the Edge"
* Sarah Jarosz –
octave mandolin
*
Jedd Hughes – harmony vocal, guitar
*
Dan Dugmore – lap steel
*
Viktor Krauss – bass
*
Eric Darken
Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer.
Biography
Drawing inspiration from his grandfather, a band leader. Darken began playing drums at age 12, and played timpani and mallets in high school. Darken attended ...
– percussion
;"Fuel the Fire"
* Sarah Jarosz – banjo
*
Darrell Scott – harmony vocal
* Alex Hargreaves – violin
* Nathaniel Smith – violin
*
Chris Thile – mandolin
* Viktor Krauss – bass
;"Mile on the Moon"
* Sarah Jarosz – octave mandolin
* Jedd Hughes – harmony vocal, guitar
*
Dirk Powell –
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
* Dan Dugmore – electric guitar
* Viktor Krauss – bass
* Eric Darken – percussion
;"Build Me Up From Bones"
* Sarah Jarosz – octave mandolin
*
Aoife O'Donovan – harmony vocal
* Alex Hargreaves – violin
* Nathaniel Smith – cello
;"Dark Road"
* Sarah Jarosz – guitar
* Kai Welch – harmony vocal
*
Jerry Douglas –
Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.
The Dobro was originally ...
* Darrell Scott – electric guitar
* Viktor Krauss – bass
*
Kenny Malone – percussion
;"Simple Twist of Fate"
* Nathaniel Smith – cello
;"1,000 Things"
* Sarah Jarosz – guitar
* Alex Hargreaves – violin
* Nathaniel Smith – cello
* Kenny Malone – percussion
;"Gone Too Soon"
* Sarah Jarosz – octave mandolin
*
Kate Rusby – harmony vocal
* Jerry Douglas –
Weissenborn
* Darrell Scott – guitar
* Dirk Powell – bass
* Kenny Malone – percussion
;"Anything Else"
* Sarah Jarosz – guitar
* Alex Hargreaves – violin
* Nathaniel Smith – cello
;"The Book of Right-On"
* Sarah Jarosz – mandolin
* Alex Hargreaves – violin
* Nathaniel Smith – cello
;"Rearrange the Art"
* Sarah Jarosz – banjo
* Aoife O'Donovan – harmony vocal
* Alex Hargreaves – violin
* Nathaniel Smith – cello
* Dan Dugmore – pedal steel
* Tim Lauer –
Wurlitzer
;Production
* Produced by Gary Paczosa and Sarah Jarosz
* Recorded and Mixed by Gary Paczosa at Minutia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
* Additional engineering: Shani Gandhi and Brandon Bell
* Mastered by Eric Boulanger at The Mastering Lab, Ojai, California
References
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2013 albums
Sarah Jarosz albums
Sugar Hill Records albums