Batten the Hatches is the debut album by American

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 singer-songwriter

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Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Jenny Owen Youngs

Jenny Owen Youngs

Jenny Owen Youngs is an American singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey.-Music career:Youngs played the flute in elementary school and the tuba in junior high school. At 14, she began to play the guitar...

. Originally self-released in 2005 by Youngs, it was reissued with the bonus track "Drinking Song" two years later by the Nettwerk

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 label

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.

The track "Fuck Was I" was used in the first episode of the second season of the Showtime series Weeds

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, to illustrate a scene in which main character Nancy Botwin, a part-time marijuana

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 dealer, discovers that her new lover is in fact a DEA

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 agent. This appearance reportedly led to sales of the album increasing from between five and ten per week to between twenty and thirty per day.

The album was listed as one of Guardian Unlimited

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s "Greatest Albums You've Never Heard" in a feature in November, 2006.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jenny Owen Youngs.

1. "Porchrail" – 1:45
2. "From Here" – 2:16
3. "Fuck Was I" – 3:30
4. "Lightning Rod" – 3:27
5. "Voice on Tape" – 3:03
   • Featuring Regina Spektor
     Regina Spektor
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6. "P.S." – 1:52
7. "Bricks" – 5:00
8. "Drinking Song" – 3:38
9. "Woodcut" – 4:18
10. "Coyote" – 3:14
11. "Keys Out Lights On" – 5:00
12. "Woodcut (The Age of Rockets
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     remix)" – 4:04
    • Remix by Andrew Futral

Performance

• Jenny Owen Youngs
  Jenny Owen Youngs
  Jenny Owen Youngs is an American singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey.-Music career:Youngs played the flute in elementary school and the tuba in junior high school. At 14, she began to play the guitar...
  
   – vocals
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  , acoustic guitar
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  , banjo
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  , bass
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• Oscar Chabebe – tabla
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• Adam Christgau – drums
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• Ronen Ben Codor – harmonium
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• James Cucinotta – bass clarinet
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• Willie Farr Jr. – electric guitar
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• Andrew Futral – synthesizer
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• Hawk – viola
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• Chris Hembree – piano
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• Cicero Jones – French horn
• Jordan McLean – flugelhorn
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• Tim Petrochko – violin
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• Patrick Petty – cello
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• Andrew Platt – bass instrument
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• Bess Rogers – flute
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  , voice
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• Dan Romer
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  Dan Romer is an accomplished producer, recording engineer, mixer and composer. Out of his recording studio in Brooklyn, NY, Dan Romer has worked closely with singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs, April Smith and the Great Picture Show, Ingrid Michaelson, Lelia Broussard, Chris Ayer, Ian Axel, The...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , keys
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  , voice
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• Jon Samson – digital kittens
• Bob Pycior – violin

Recording

• Ronen Ben Codor – additional arrangements on track 11
• Andrew Futral – remix
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   (track 12, reissued version), additional arrangements on tracks 3 & 5
• Jay Newland – mastering
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• Dan Romer – production, engineering, arrangements, mixing

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	2005	Self-released	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
Canada, UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	April 10, 2007	Nettwerk Nettwerk The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville, and Hamburg...	CD	0 6700 30648 2 8