The album, released on November 13, 2015,[2] includes lullabies that their mothers Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche sang to them as children, plus songs by Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rogers, and their father Loudon Wainwright III.
Other contributors include Brad Albetta on bass, keyboards, and organ, Thomas Bartlett on piano, Tom Mennier for bell arrangements, Éloi Painchaud on banjo and harmonica, and Joel Zifkin on violin.
Their debut collaborative album features sixteen tracks that have been described as "dark, mysterious, and beautiful" interpretations of songs sung to them as children.
Other contributors to the album include Brad Albetta on bass, keyboards, and organ, Thomas Bartlett on piano, Tom Mennier for bell arrangements, Éloi Painchaud on banjo and harmonica, and Joel Zifkin on violin.
[7] Roche recalled how "daunting" it was to learn the song as a teenage guitarist: "My aunt Terre taught it to me and I remember the overwhelming and seemingly impossible task of switching to a C chord in the chorus as a new player.
"Do You Love an Apple" is credited Kevin Burke, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, Paddy Keenan, Dónal Lunny, and Matt Molloy.
The song "El Condor Pasa" premiered on Speakeasy, a blog affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, via SoundCloud, on October 7, 2015.
[3][17] CBC Music's Melody Lau opined, "Wainwright and Roche display a familiarity and ease around each track, delivering each refrain with a palpable sentiment".
"[12] Jude Rogers of The Guardian called the album a "lovely, twilit thing" and the duo's London performance "powerful because the sisters' different voices create a strange magic together.
She said "Opener Prairie Lullaby" was "equally lovely" and the songs "Runs in the Family", "All the Pretty Little Horses", and "End of the Rainbow" were a "rare treat".
[10] The Wall Street Journal's Eric Danton said the sisters' voices, specifically on "El Condor Pasa", "[interlock] so tightly it feels instinctual".