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Captain Swing (album)

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Released
  
October 1989

Release date
  
October 1989

Label
  
Mercury Records

Artist
  
Michelle Shocked

Producer
  
Pete Anderson

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Genres
  
Folk music, Blues, Bebop, Dixieland

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Captain Swing is a mixed genre album by American folk singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked. It was first released by Mercury Records in 1989 and later reissued by Shocked's own label Mighty Sound in 2004. It was named after Captain Swing, the pseudonymous rebel leader who penned threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830. The album was a cross-country inventory of swing musical styles -- from Dixieland to Western, Big Band to BeBop.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Michelle Shocked; except where indicated

  1. "God Is a Real Estate Developer" (Shocked, Matt Fox) - 3:13
  2. "On the Greener Side" - 2:56
  3. "Silent Ways" - 2:40
  4. "Sleep Keeps Me Awake" - 2:44
  5. "The Cement Lament" - 3:07
  6. "(Don't You Mess Around with) My Little Sister" - 2:39
  7. "Looks Like Mona Lisa" - 2:32
  8. "Too Little Too Late" - 2:16
  9. "Streetcorner Ambassador" - 3:28
  10. "Must Be Luff" - 2:45
  11. "Russian Roulette" 3:33 [hidden track]

Personnel

  • Michelle Shocked – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Pete Anderson – electric guitar, six-string bass guitar
  • Skip Edwards – piano, Hammond organ
  • Jeff Donavan – drums
  • James Cruce - drums on 2
  • Dusty Wakeman - electric bass
  • Domenic Genova – upright bass
  • Lenny Castro - percussion
  • Freebo (a.k.a. Daniel Friedberg) - tuba
  • Zachary Richard - accordion
  • Lee Thornburg - trumpet
  • David Stout - trombone
  • Beverly Dahlke-Smith - baritone sax and clarinet
  • Steve Grove - tenor sax
  • Paul Glasse - mandolin
  • Don Reed - strings
  • John Begzian - emulator program

    • Technical personnel

  • Pete Anderson – producer, arrangements
  • Peter Doell – engineer (Capitol Studio B)
  • David Leonard – mixing engineer (Skip Sailor Recording, Sound Castle Studio, The Enterprise)
  • Don Murray - mixing engineer on 8, 9 & 10.
  • Charlie Paakkari – additional engineer
  • Stephen Marcussen - mastering engineer (Precision Lacquered)
  • Barb Hein - production assistant
  • Ross Garfield - custom drums and tuning (Drum Doctor)
  • Jaime Hernandez - cover art (Fantagraphics)

    • Songs

    1God Is a Real Estate Developer3:13
    2On the Greener Side2:56
    3Silent Ways2:40

    References

    Captain Swing (album) Wikipedia
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