Hope Is a Thing With Feathers is the fifth and final album by the Alternative Country band Trailer Bride

Trailer Bride

Trailer Bride was a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based alternative country rock band signed to Bloodshot Records. Formed in 1993, the band consisted of Melissa Swingle , Robert Mitchum , Brad Goolsby , Bryon Settle and Scott Goolsby...

. Its title is the first line of a poem by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...

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Reviews

Mojo

Mojo (magazine)

MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...

 Magazine (December 1, 2003):
"3 stars out of 5 - [T]here's a mix of twisted folk rock, recalling a less skeletal Palace and early-Nick-Cave-in-a-cowboy-hat rock."

Track listing

All songs written by Melissa Swingle except noted.

1. "Silk Hope Road" - 3:03
2. "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" (Emily Dickinson
   Emily Dickinson
   Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
   
   , Daryl White) - 3:15
3. "Skinny White Girl" - 4:47
4. "Mach 1" (Melissa Swingle, Daryl White) - 2:18
5. "Destiny" - 3:59
6. "Lightning" - 3:37
7. "Vagabond Motel" - 5:07
8. "Quickstep" - 3:11
9. "Shiloh" - 3:46
10. "Drive with the Wind" - 2:45
11. "Waking Dream" - 3:13
12. "Mockingbird" - 3:34

Personnel

• Tim Barnes - guitar
• John Bowman - drums, tambourine
• Melissa Swingle - vocals, accordion, guitar, harmonica, organ, piano, saw
• Daryl White - bass, bow

ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL

• Mary Huff - harmony vocals