Band members:
Brian Michalski: lead & backing vocals
Ted Stockwell: Hammond, piano, synthesizers, programming, backing
vocals
Karl Haug: acoustic, electric & slide guitars, mandolins
Pete Stern: drums, drum & percussion programming
Jim Dixon: bass guitar, bass pedals, backing vocals
Additional musicians:
Alan White: drums (2)
Billy Sherwood: bass (6, 9)
Segrid Lee: backing vocals (8)
Produced by Ted Stockwell & Brian Michalski
Engineered by Ted Stockwell
Additional engineering by Brian Michalski, Lloyd Walker
Mixed by Billy Sherwood at The Office
Mastered by Joe Gastwirt
All songs arranged by Michalski/Stockwell/Haug/Stern/Dixon
Tracks:
1. funeral for a dog (Stockwell)
2. bus stop door (Michalski/Stockwell)
3. too late (Stockwell/Michalski/Haug)
4. dusty chair (Michalski)
5. collecting hearts (the coyote story) (Michalski/Stockwell/Haug)
6. mantra (Stockwell)
7. truce (flyin' blind) (Stern/Haug/Michalski/Stockwell)
8. the road (Michalski/Stockwell)
9. devil's den (Michalski/Haug/Stern/Stockwell)
10. break it (Stockwell)
11. push (Michalski/Stockwell)
12. funeral (Stockwell)
Notes: Aggressive. Moody. A very classy, professional album in a
style
reminiscent of Collective Soul, only better. The liner notes
include special
thanks to Yes, among many others. Various members of Yes were
announced
to be appearing on the band's subsequent album, but this did not
come to
pass in the end. Stockwell has said there was a track entitled
"Mephisto" for that album, Spinning, with White and John
Giblin (bass), but it wasn't used.
Stockwell has engineered for Yes and was Khoroshev's understudy on the Open Your Eyes tour, Japanese leg (given concerns over Khoroshev's visa status). Later, Stockwell and Haug would both end up in Alan White's eponymous band White, but Stockwell left after only a few live shows. (Ray Riethmeier; additional info HP, 1 May 05, 26 May 22)