Jubilee

Jubilee is the third full-length album by Brunanter indie folk rock band The Towners, released on July 27, 2005, by independent record label Raconteur Records.

Recording
The three songs in the middle form a story within a story, that of 'Henry, Carnival Man', and divide the album in two halves.

Except for the Henry story (recorded in a studio over four days), Jubilee was recorded at Old Adams Corner, when the building was momentarily available for renting. To facilitate the creative process and avoid creative block, band members filled a hat with pieces of paper listing strategies and ideas to try out. Extra instruments used in the album's recording include: an upright bass, an accordion, and brass and percussion instruments.

Track listing

 * 1) 'Jubilee' - 5:07
 * 2) 'Thankful Together' - 3:04
 * 3) 'Samuel, the New Love' - 3:11
 * 4) 'The Beach Life' - 4:38
 * 5) 'The Baggin' Man's Gamble' - 7:02
 * 6) 'Forever Migrating' - 5:29
 * 7) 'Henry, Carnival Man (Dusty Version)' - 5:11
 * 8) 'An Unfolding Chain of Catastrophic Events' - 7:55
 * 9) 'Signs from the Sea' - 3:42
 * 10) 'Twelve Pretty Girls' - 4:52
 * 11) 'The Driving Cause' - 4:15
 * 12) 'On the Line' - 6:04
 * 13) 'The Salvation Song (Of Gifts and Melodies)' - 11:13

Cover
Just like the cover for the accompanying EP Henry, Carnival Man, the cover for Jubilee features a photograph by American photographer Arthur Rothstein. The photo shows "the bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands". Taken for the Farm Security Administration, it caused controversy in 1937 when politicians and papers claimed the photo was staged to make drought conditions look worse than they were.