On June 4, Shovels & Rope, the husband and wife duo featuring Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, released a pair of singles off their impending album Something Is Working Up Above My Head, due ...

I found myself feeling like the passenger in a vagabond’s mobile home while listening to Something is Working Up Above My Head, the latest record from husband-wife duo Shovels & Rope. Each song plays ...

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 ...

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 ...

A married couple make up roots rock duo Shovels & Rope. Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst have made music together since 2008. The Charleston, South Carolina band is closing out their fall tour in ...

Shovels & Rope is coming to town, and the band’s bringing its guitars, drums and tambourines. And diapers. Lots of diapers. When the indie-minded, country-tinged, folk/rock band’s tour bus pulls up to ...

Shovels and Rope is the rock and roll-roots duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, two Charleston, South Carolina-based songwriters who never meant to be in a band together. Though there is ...

SATURDAY 2/15. Rev Room. 8 p.m. $25. Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the Charleston, South Carolina, husband-and-wife duo known as Shovels & Rope, blend traditional folk, rock and country rock into ...

Shovels & Rope consider themselves to be living in the lap of luxury -- except for them, luxury looks more like a comfortable Winnebago View than a pimped-out tour bus. The husband and wife duo, made ...

There’s a scene in The Ballad of Shovels & Rope where Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent are at their wits’ end in a Los Angeles recording studio, trying to lay down tracks in two days with not enough ...