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Rites of Passage (Roger Hodgson album)

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Released
  
1997 (1997)

Producer
  
Karuna Hodgson

Artist
  
Roger Hodgson

Label
  
Mundo Records

Length
  
60:28

Rites of Passage (1997)
  
Open the Door (2000)

Release date
  
1997

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Recorded
  
2 August 1996, Miners Foundry, Nevada City, California

Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock

Similar
  
Roger Hodgson albums, Progressive rock albums

Rites of Passage is the third album by Roger Hodgson, recorded in 1996 near Hodgson's home in Nevada City, California and his first live album. It was the last gig of several Californian dates in the summer of 1996.

Contents

The album features three Supertramp hits, six songs by Hodgson (five previously unrecorded), two songs written and performed as lead vocalist by Mikail Graham and one song written and performed as lead vocalist by Hodgson's son Andrew.

The cover features the painting The Accolade (1901) by Edmund Blair Leighton.

Personnel

musicians
  • Roger Hodgson – lead vocals (1–6, 8, 10, 12), guitar (9, 11), piano (2, 3, 5, 10), twelve-string guitar (1, 4, 6, 8, 12)
  • Andrew Hodgson – drums (1–6, 9–12), lead vocals (7), piano (7), percussion (8), didgeridoo (8), harmonica (9)
  • John Helliwell – saxophone (1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10–12), percussion (3), backing vocals (2–6, 10)
  • Mikail Graham – guitar (1–4, 6, 8–12), lead vocals (9, 11), backing vocals (1–6, 10, 12), keyboards (5, 8), percussion (5, 8), harmonica (5)
  • Rich Stanmyre – bass (1–6, 8–12), backing vocals (1–6, 11, 12)
  • Jeff Daniel – keyboards (1–6, 8–10, 12), Hammond organ (1–6, 10, 11, 12), percussion (3, 6, 8–11), backing vocals (1–6, 10, 12)
  • Terry Riley – tambura (8), backing vocals (8)
  • Josh Neumann – cello (7)
  • Ian "Biggles" Lloyd-Bisley – noises (1)
    • technicians
  • Biff Dawes – live recording engineer
  • Harry Andronis – live sound engineer
  • Tony Shepherd – lighting direction, video direction
  • Joe Gastwirt – mastering
  • Ramón Bretón – mastering assistant
  • Brian Foraker – mixing engineer
  • Karuna Hodgson – production
  • Ian "Biggles" Lloyd-Bisley – stage production manager
    • art work
  • Daniel Clark – art direction, design
  • Cole Thompson – photography
  • Sunja Park – typography, layout
  • Karuna Hodgson – liner notes

    • Production details

  • mixed at Unicorn Studio
  • recorded on the Westwood One mobile recording truck, 2 August 1996, Miners Foundry, Nevada City, California
  • live sound by Delicate Productions
  • mastered at Oceanview Digital Mastering

    • Songs

    1Every Trick in the Book5:52
    2In Jeopardy5:13
    3Showdown4:45

    References

    Rites of Passage (Roger Hodgson album) Wikipedia
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