Swimmin' Time
by Shovels & Rope
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Shovels & Rope bestography
Swimmin' Time is ranked 2nd best out of 8 albums by Shovels & Rope on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Shovels & Rope is O' Be Joyful which is ranked number 10959 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 110.
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Swimmin' Time track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Swimmin' Time rankings summary
Overall rank: 24,908th | 2010s rank: 5,568th | 2014 rank: 603rd Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | craab | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 13/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Exclaim! Top 10 Country, Folk & Blues Albums 2014 | 7/10 | - |
| 2025 | craab | Albums for driving through each state | 84/94 | - |
| 2025 | craab | Top 11 Music Albums of 2014 | 4/11 | 4 |
| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 83/100 | 4 |
| 2022 | buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 6/100 | 5 |
| 2014 | KEXP | Top 90.3 Listener Voted Albums of 2014 | 47/91 | 2 |
| 2014 | QRO Magazine | Top 30 Albums of 2014 | 7/30 | 4 |
| 2014 | PopMatters | The Best Albums of 2014 | 39/80 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 39 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/17/2023 23:47 | craab | 672 | 79/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2022 18:13 | buzzdainer | 3,338 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2020 05:25 |  eric_005 | 1,934 | 76/100 |
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From craab 12/21/2021 03:27 in What album are you listening to right now?
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buzzdainer 01/08/2017 00:39 | #181995
buzzdainer 01/08/2017 00:39 | #181995
Charleston, South Carolina, husband-and-wife duo Shovels & Rope made waves on the Americana scene with their 2012 debut O' Be Joyful, a set of rowdy sloppy-tonk songs with a Southern gothic tinge. Swimmin' Time is the successful follow-up, pitching drawling vocal harmonies against a bluesy, lo-fi backdrop of guitar, piano and drums. "Stono River Blues," named for a tidal channel that was the site of a major slave uprising in 1739, is the highlight, with its allusion-inflected lyrics: "I gotta sister on Wadmalaw / She floats all day in the Ledenwah / One day she left the chickens in charge / And floated off to Heaven on a party barge."
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