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Released
  
May 18, 1993

Painted Desert Serenade(1993)
  
Delilah Blue(1995)

Release date
  
18 May 1993

Length
  
36:51

Artist
  
Joshua Kadison

Label
  
SBK Records

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Genres
  
Pop music, Soft rock, Piano rock

Producers
  
Rod Argent, David Kershenbaum, Peter Van Hooke

Similar
  
Joshua Kadison albums, Pop music albums

Joshua kadison painted desert serenade


Painted Desert Serenade is the debut studio release from American pianist/singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison, released in 1993 on SBK (a subsidiary of Capitol Records). It featured two singles, both of which reached the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100: "Jessie" peaked at number 26 in the US (while placing three spots in Sweden a year after its release), while the track "Beautiful in My Eyes" managed a chart placing of 19 in 1994.

Contents

Joshua kadison jessie original videoclip


Track listing

All songs written by Joshua Kadison.

  1. "Jessie" 5:18
  2. "Painted Desert Serenade" 2:56
  3. "Beau's All Night Radio Love Line" 4:26
  4. "Invisible Man" 4:57
  5. "Mama's Arms" 3:00
  6. "Beautiful in My Eyes" 4:07
  7. "Picture Postcards from LA" 4:33
  8. "When A Woman Cries" 3:31
  9. "Georgia Rain" 4:03

Personnel

  • Joshua Kadison: piano, lead vocals
  • Sherwood Ball, Adele Bertei, Carmen Carter, Lance Ellington, Kathy Hazzard, David Lasley, Valerie Mayo, Arnold McCuller, Joseph Powell, Ian Shaw, Helen Terry, Ruby Turner, Carmen Twillie, Fred White: choir & chorus vocals
  • Rosemary Butler, Gene Miller, Tessa Niles: backing vocals
  • Mark Cresswell, Tim Pierce, Tim Renwick: guitars
  • Dave "Clem" Clempson: acoustic, electric & twelve-string guitars; mandolin
  • Paul Jones: harmonica
  • Phil Parlapiano: accordion
  • Rod Argent: keyboards & Hammond organ, backing vocals
  • Jeffrey "CJ" Vanston: Hammond organ
  • John Giblin, Chris Laurence, John Pierce: bass guitar
  • Denny Fongheiser, Ian Thomas, Neal Wilkinson: drums
  • Martin Ditcham: percussion
  • Frank Ricotti: congas & percussion
  • Peter Van Hooke: piano, drums, percussion
  • Strings arranged by Rod Argent; conducted by Gavyn Wright
  • Violins: Mark Berrow, Ben Cruft, Roger Garland, Wilfred Gibson, Roy Gillard, Tim Good, Rita Manning, Peter Oxer, Bill Penham, Barry Wilde, David Woodcock, Gavyn Wright
  • Viola: Stephen Tees, Robert Smissen, George Robertson, Andrew Parker, Susie Hansen
  • Celli: Paul Kegg, Ben Kennard, Helen Liebmann, Roger Smith
  • Frank Morgan, Richard Morgan: oboe

    • Production

  • Produced by Rod Argent, David Kershenbaum & Peter Van Hooke
  • Recording Engineers: John Kurlander, Simon Smart, Kevin Smith
  • Mixed by Rob Eaton, David Kershenbaum & Kevin Smith
  • Mastered by Bob Ludwig

    • Reception

    Reviewing the album for Allmusic, Bryan Buss called it "chock full of odes to finding romance, longing for romance and losing romance".

    Songs

    1Jessie5:18
    2Painted Desert Serenade2:57
    3Beau's All Night Radio Love Line4:26

    References

    Painted Desert Serenade Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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