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Beauty Queen Sister is the 13th studio album by Indigo Girls, released on October 4, 2011 on Vanguard Records.

Beauty Queen Sister
Studio album by Indigo Girls
Released	October 4, 2011
Recorded	2011
Genre	Folk rock
Length	50:08
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Peter Collins, John Reynolds
Indigo Girls chronology
Holly Happy Days (2010) Beauty Queen Sister (2011) One Lost Day (2015)
Singles from Beauty Queen Sister
"Making Promises" "We Get to Feel It All"

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(63/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[2]
Allmusic	[3]
American Songwriter	[4]
The A.V. Club	C+[5]
The Independent	[6]
Paste	(6.6/10)[7]
Uncut	[1]
USA Today	[8]

Track listing

1. "Share the Moon" – 3:34
2. "John" – 4:22
3. "Beauty Queen Sister" – 3:11
4. "We Get to Feel It All" – 3:32
5. "War Rugs" – 3:23
6. "Gone" – 3:02
7. "Mariner Moonlighting" – 3:36
8. "Birthday Song" – 4:19
9. "Feed and Water the Horses" – 4:30
10. "Making Promises" – 3:19
11. "Damo" – 4:07
12. "Able to Sing" – 4:02
13. "Yoke" – 5:09

Personnel

Indigo Girls

• Amy Ray – Vocals, songwriting, electric guitar (1–5, 7, 8, 13), acoustic guitar (6, 10, 12), electric mandolin (9), mandolin (11)
• Emily Saliers – Vocals, songwriting, ukulele (1), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 6, 8–12), electric guitar (3), slide guitar (6), classical guitar (7)

Additional Musicians

• Carol Isaacs – Wurlitzer (1, 4, 12), Hammond B3 (1, 2), vibes (1, 4, 5, 7–9, 13), piano (3, 6–9), accordion (10, 13)
• Brady Blade – drums (1–4, 6, 9, 10, 12), loop (2)
• Jim Brock – percussion (1–10, 12, 13), loop (2), drums (5, 7, 8, 13)
• John Reynolds – drums (11)
• Stuart Mathis – electric guitar (10)
• John McLoughlin – acoustic guitar (11), mandolin (11)
• Luke Bulla – violin (1, 2, 4–6, 8, 9, 13), mandolin (2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12)
• Allison Brown – banjola (2, 8, 9, 12), banjo (5–7)
• Frank Howard Swart – bass (1–4, 6, 9, 10, 12)
• Clare Kenny – bass (11)
• Viktor Krauss – upright bass (5, 7, 8, 13)
• Eamonn de Barra – whistles (11), flute (11)
• Allen Parker – synth loop (8)

Additional Vocalists

• The Shadowboxers – backing vocals (3, 4)
• Lucy Wainwright Roche – guest vocals (5), additional backing vocals (12)
• Damien Dempsey – backing vocals (11)

Production

• Peter Collins – producer (1–10, 12–13)
• John Reynolds – producer (11)

Chart performance

The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Folk Albums chart, No. 14 on Top Rock Albums, and No. 36 on the Billboard 200, selling 11,000 in its debut week. The album has sold 42,000 copies in the US as of May 2015.[9]

Chart (2015)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[10]	36
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[11]	2
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[12]	9
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[13]	23
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[14]	14

References

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110825084733/http://publicity.vanguardrecords.com/?p=3680
• Beauty Queen Sister at Metacritic

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