The back porch meets the barroom in the music, and in the lyrics, of Shovels & Rope. South Carolina-based duo Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have spent a couple years touring the country, making ...

Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst are the husband-and-wife duo behind Shovels & Rope, an Americana folk act who played Wooly's in Des Moines in late September. Americana folk band Shovels & Rope is a ...

Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst of Shovels & Rope Credit: Courtesy She’s from Nashville by way of the Mississippi delta, and he’s from Charleston by way of Denver. She brings the soul; he brings the ...

Internationally acclaimed folk duo Shovels & Rope is wife-husband team Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, who are still happily based right here in the Lowcountry no matter their increasing notoriety.

Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have spent the last decade or so singing sweetly, rowdily anthemic folk-country music together, most recently... Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have spent the last ...

Pat Conroy, that distinguished Southern novelist who hails from the same stretch of South Carolina coast as Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, couldn’t have written a more romantic love story than ...

Charleston alternative duo Shovels & Rope announced May 24 the end of its partnership with High Water Festival held at Riverfront Park in North Charleston. The two-day folk-soaked alternative music ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The phrase "O' Be Joyful" is more than an album title for the country-rock duo Shovels & Rope. It's a command. It's hard not to be swept up in the spirit watching Cary Ann Hearst and ...

In the five years that Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst have been performing as Shovels & Rope, the married musical duo has distilled their songwriting into a musical embodiment of their relationship ...