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Barefoot and Pregnant (album)

album by The Dollyrots

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ16243203 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barefoot and Pregnant is the fifth studio album by the Los Angeles-based pop-punk band The Dollyrots. It was released on Arrested Youth Records, February 18, 2014.

Track listing

Personnel

Kelly Ogden – bass, vocals

Luis Cabezas – guitar, vocals, recording, production

Stacy Jones – drums

Amy Wood – drums

Ruby Fields – Viola on "Nightlight"

Phillip Calhoun – Glockenspiel on "Nightlight"

River Ogden Cabezas – Fetal Heartbeat in "Under the Same Sky"

John Fields – production, additional percussion, keys, and FX

Stephen Marsh – mastering

Jack Daniel Cozzi, Tish Ciravolo, Morgan McGinnis, Tom Calhoun, Phillip Calhoun, Risty Perez, Stacy Jones, and John FIelds – background vocals

Reception

Critical reception

PopMatters gave the album seven out of ten stars, saying "there’s more variety and nuance here than ever before; jokey hardcore runs seamlessly into mid-tempo stomps and bad-girl anthems, all powered by Luis Cabezas’ satisfyingly fuzzy guitars and delivered with an economy (13 songs in 37 minutes) that would have made Dee Dee and the boys proud.

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