2007 studio album by Marc Cohn
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Join the Parade American singer-songwriter Marc Cohn , released in 2007.
An MP3 version of the album was released on iTunes on September 25, 2007 and contained the bonus track "You're a Shadow", which is not on the studio release.
The first track off the album, "Listening to Levon", was released as a promotional single, and received some airplay on WYEP-FM .[ 2]
A making of "Join the Parade" video was released by Decca Records on Amazon Music , and features Cohn talking about the process of producing the album. He also discusses topics that influenced many of the songs, Hurricane Katrina , and the near-death experience of being shot in the head in a failed carjacking attempt while on tour.[ 3] [ 4]
Track listing
All tracks written by Marc Cohn, except where noted.
Title Writer(s) 1. "Listening to Levon" 4:48 2. "The Calling (Ghost of Charlie Christian )" 4:55 3. "Dance Back from the Grave" Marc Cohn, Rick Bragg 4:44 4. "If I Were an Angel" 5:52 5. "Let Me Be Your Witness" Marc Cohn, Kenny White 4:32 6. "Live Out the String" Marc Cohn, Michael Silverstone 4:23 7. "Giving Up the Ghost" Marc Cohn, John Leventhal 3:45 8. "Join the Parade" Marc Cohn, Malcolm Burn , Kevin Salem 4:33 9. "My Sanctuary" 5:51 10. "Life Goes On" 3:49
iTunes bonus track Title 11. "You're a Shadow" 4:36
Personnel
Marc Cohn – lead vocals, acoustic piano (1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (2, 3), keyboards (4), drum machine (4), tack piano (9)
Benmont Tench – organ (1, 5, 6), keyboards (2), Hammond organ (2), Wurlitzer electric piano (5, 6)Patrick Warren – pump organ (2, 9), Chamberlin (2, 9), keyboards (3, 4, 7, 9)Kenny White – Wurlitzer electric piano (4)David Barrett – Mellotron (4)Malcolm Burn – keyboards (8), guitars (8), percussion (8)Charlie Sexton – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5, 10), 12-string acoustic guitar (1), electric guitar (1, 2, 3), steel guitar (1), drums (1, 3), harmony vocals (1, 5), acoustic piano (2), loops (2), backing vocals (2, 6, 8), 6-string bass (3), percussion (3, 5, 8, 9), keyboards (5), baritone guitar (5), bass guitar (5, 6, 8), cello (5, 7), violin (5), guitars (6, 7, 8), 12-string guitar (6), slide guitar (6, 10), Leslie guitar (7), live guitar loops (7), bouzouki (7, 9), Wurlitzer electric piano (8), pump organ bass (9), resonator guitar (9), electric upright bass (9)Danny Kortchmar – guitars (4)Bill Dillon – guitars (8)
Shane Fontayne – Fender 6-string bass guitar (1, 6), guitars (2, 4), tremolo guitar (3), acoustic guitar (5), National guitar (7), baritone guitar (9)Jennifer Condos – bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 6)Sebastian Steinberg – acoustic bass (3), electric upright bass (7)Greg Cohen – acoustic bass (10)Jay Bellerose – drums (2, 3, 5, 7, 9)Jim Keltner – drums (2-5, 7, 9)Jerome Smith – trombone (3, 9)
Ephraim Owens – trumpet solo (2), trumpet (3), flugelhorn (9)Tosca String Quartet – strings (10)
Stephen Barber – string arrangements (10)
Paulette McWilliams – backing vocals (2, 5)
Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals (1)
Charley Drayton – backing vocals (2, 8), drums (6, 8, 10)Amy Helm – backing vocals (3)Rose Stone – backing vocals (3)The Holmes Brothers – backing vocals (4, 9)Sharon Bryant – backing vocals (5)Shelby Lynne – backing vocals (5), harmony vocals (7)N'Dea Davenport – backing vocals (8)
Production
Marc Cohn – producer
Charlie Sexton – producer
Brad Bell – engineer, editing
Joe Blaney – engineer, mixing (1-3, 5-10)
Kyle Crushman – engineer, editing
T.J. Doherty – engineer
Philip Hill – engineer, editing
Jim Scott – engineer, mixing (4)Jared Tuten – engineer, editing
Matthew Gill – assistant engineer
Slick Johnson – assistant engineer
Steve Rhodes – assistant engineer, editing
Niko Bolas – additional engineer (4)Kevin Halpin – additional engineer (4)
Joe Gastwirt – mastering at Gastwirt Mastering Tom Arndt – package coordinator
Pat Barry – art direction
Richard Frankel – art direction, package design
Leonard Freed – cover photographyMyriam Santos-Kayda – photography
Jean Marie Kearney – styling assistant
References
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