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" Sometimes you just gotta unplug from all the musical tropes. Get past the marketing and stereotypes, just listen to something you dig on that doesn&amp;#039;t want to sell you anything. What&amp;#039;s the word? Authentic. You want something authentic. From the gut. And that&amp;#039;s where Quiet Life comes in. Music that sounds like your best friends made it, and you&amp;#039;re sharing an inside joke, but it&amp;#039;s also damn good. A little bit country, a little bit rock n&amp;#039; roll. And it works, having led to tours with bands like the Head and the Heart, Portugal, the Man, and more. These guys are as comfortably authentic as their music, just check out their Esquire Live Session for proof. Right now they&amp;#039;re holed up in Philly recording a new full length at Dr. Dog&amp;#039;s studio, but you can get a taste via their latest EP, Housebroken Man, out August 12, which features special guests like My Morning Jacket&amp;#039;s Jim James and, on this, the title track, Shovels and Rope&amp;#039;s Cary Ann Hearst.      Singer Sean Spellman had this to say: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s only been one female in this entire country, from coast to coast, since the inception of this song, who I knew from the very start was and quite truly is the only voice capable of just the right amount of growl, the perfect pitch of harmonic sweetness, down-right dirty enough to wail like a drunken poet or to sing in a Sunday choir, and able to bring true justice to the song&amp;#039;s other half, the lady&amp;#039;s part... And that&amp;#039;s Ms. Cary Ann Hearst. We were just lucky enough that she agreed to sing it. &amp;quot;These songs were written when a lot of things were in flux. Lyrically, they came together at weird or rough times in certain relationships I was having. &amp;quot;Housebroken Man&amp;quot; is about trying to be a good boyfriend/husband/whatever and imagining and idealizing the perfect life. &amp;quot;We sure do like this tune. It&amp;#039;s got all the right chords, and a nice melody. Cary Ann really sweetened it up.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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