Misplaced Pages

Beauty Queen Sister
Studio album by Indigo Girls
Released	October 4, 2011
Recorded	2011
Genre	Folk rock
Length	50:08
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Peter Collins, John Reynolds
Indigo Girls chronology
Holly Happy Days (2010) Beauty Queen Sister (2011) One Lost Day (2015)
Singles from Beauty Queen Sister
"Making Promises" "We Get to Feel It All"

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(63/100)
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com
Allmusic
American Songwriter
The A.V. Club	C+
The Independent
Paste	(6.6/10)
Uncut
USA Today

Beauty Queen Sister is the 13th studio album by Indigo Girls, released on October 4, 2011 on Vanguard Records.

Track listing

Tracks marked (A) by Amy Ray; tracks marked (E) by Emily Saliers.

1. "Share the Moon" (A) – 3:34
2. "John" (E) – 4:22
3. "Beauty Queen Sister" (A) – 3:11
4. "We Get to Feel It All" (E) – 3:32
5. "War Rugs" (A) – 3:23
6. "Gone" (Emily Saliers / Annie Roboff) – 3:02
7. "Mariner Moonlighting" (A) – 3:36
8. "Birthday Song" (E) – 4:19
9. "Feed and Water the Horses" (E) – 4:30
10. "Making Promises" (A) – 3:19
11. "Damo" (A) – 4:07
12. "Able to Sing" (E) – 4:02
13. "Yoke" (A) – 5:09

Personnel

Indigo Girls

• Amy Ray – Vocals, songwriting, electric guitar (1–5, 7, 8, 13), acoustic guitar (6, 10, 12), electric mandolin (9), mandolin (11)
• Emily Saliers – Vocals, songwriting, ukulele (1), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 6, 8–12), electric guitar (3), slide guitar (6), classical guitar (7)

Additional Musicians

• Carol Isaacs – Wurlitzer (1, 4, 12), Hammond B3 (1, 2), vibes (1, 4, 5, 7–9, 13), piano (3, 6–9), accordion (10, 13)
• Brady Blade – drums (1–4, 6, 9, 10, 12), loop (2)
• Jim Brock – percussion (1–10, 12, 13), loop (2), drums (5, 7, 8, 13)
• Stuart Mathis – electric guitar (10)
• Luke Bulla – violin (1, 2, 4–6, 8, 9, 13), mandolin (2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12)
• Allison Brown – banjola (2, 8, 9, 12), banjo (5–7)
• Frank Howard Swart – bass (1–4, 6, 9, 10, 12)
• Viktor Krauss – upright bass (5, 7, 8, 13)
• Allen Parker – synth loop (8)

Additional Vocalists

• The Shadowboxers – backing vocals (3, 4)
• Lucy Wainwright Roche – guest vocals (5), additional backing vocals (12)

Track 11 (Damo)

• Eamonn de Barra – whistles, flute
• Damien Dempsey – backing vocals
• Clare Kenny – bass
• John McLoughlin – acoustic guitar, mandolin
• John Reynolds – drums

Production

• Peter Collins – producer (1–10, 12–13)
• John Reynolds – producer (11)

Chart performance

The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Folk Albums chart, No. 14 on Top Rock Albums, and No. 36 on the Billboard 200, selling 11,000 in its debut week. The album has sold 42,000 copies in the US as of May 2015.

References

1. ^ Critic reviews at Metacritic
2. "About.com review". Archived from the original on 2013-05-14. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
3. Allmusic review
4. American Songwriter review
5. The A.V. Club review
6. The Independent review
7. Paste review
8. USA Today review Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
9. "Upcoming Releases". Hits Daily Double. HITS Digital Ventures. Archived from the original on May 15, 2015.
10. "Indigo Girls Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
11. "Indigo Girls Chart History (Top Americana/Folk Albums)". Billboard.
12. "Indigo Girls Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard.
13. "Indigo Girls Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard.
14. "Indigo Girls Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110825084733/http://publicity.vanguardrecords.com/?p=3680
• Beauty Queen Sister at Metacritic

• 2011 albums
• Indigo Girls albums
• Albums produced by Peter Collins (record producer)
• Vanguard Records albums