''Rabbit Songs'' is the debut album by Hem. It was released on June 11, 2002, on

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. The album was featured on NPR's '' All Songs Considered''
/ref> following its release, and the song "Half Acre" was later used in a Liberty Mutual commercial.

Track listing

All songs written by Dan Messé, except when noted. # "Lord, Blow the Moon Out Please" (Traditional) - 0:26 # "When I Was Drinking" - 3:44 # "Half Acre" - 3:23 # "Burying Song" - 1:13 # "Betting On Trains" - 2:44 # "Leave Me Here" - 3:50 # "All That I'm Good For" - 3:24 # "Idle (The Rabbit Song)" - 3:44 # "Stupid Mouth Shut" - 3:24 # "Lazy Eye" (Messé/Gary Maurer) - 2:26 # "Sailor" - 3:00 # "Polly's Dress" - 1:12 # "Night Like a River" (Steve Curtis) - 3:47 # "The Cuckoo" (Traditional) - 2:57 # "Waltz" - 2:41 # "Horsey" (Messé/Maurer) - 3:34

Personnel

*Sally Ellyson -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Dan Messé -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

glockenspiel The glockenspiel ( or , : bells and : set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone. The glo ...

*Gary Maurer -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

*Steve Curtis - guitar, mandolin,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

, back-up vocals *Catherine Popper -

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

, back-up vocals *Mark Brotter -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

*Bob Hoffnar -

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

*Heather Zimmerman -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

References

2002 debut albums Hem (band) albums DreamWorks Records albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub