Album DescriptionMcCarthy Trenching's self-titled album is the distillation of two collections of songs. Old Habits, recorded in November of 2003 by Ted Stevens, was a self-released nine-song collection of drinking songs and waltzes. The dipsomaniacal It's Got Nothing to Do with the Drinking was recorded in the winter of 2005-2006, and had been given to only a handful of family and friends before Team Love expressed interest in releasing a `best of what you've put on tape so far.' Collaborators include Ted Stevens, Ryan Fox, Pat Oakes, Tim Kasher, Orenda Fink, Adrianne Verhoeven, Steve Bartolomei, Alex McManus, Bill Hoover, Renee Ledesma Hoover, and Mark Maziarz.