Dan McCarthy has remained Omaha’s best-kept secret, touring with Mayday, Neva Dinova, The Good Life, Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor, Bright Eyes and many others. His multi-instrumental talent can also be heard on keys for Cursive’s “Happy Hollow” and accordion in Tilly and the Wall’s “Bottoms of Barrels.”

With the release of McCarthy Trenching, the name of his main outfit and self-titled debut, McCarthy may have to finally forfeit his secret status.

This Team Love release marks a best-to-date collection of five years of songwriting and two recording sessions.

The result is a mixture of tear-in-beer waltzes, anthemic drinking songs, and restless tunes of longing that take you from the bar to the road to the track to the morning after and back to the bar again, just in time for happy hour.