The Man on the Burning Tightrope

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Released June 17, 2003 Artist Firewater Label Jetset Records Producers Tod Ashley, Tamir Muskat		Length 46:51 Release date 17 June 2003 Genre Indie rock

Recorded Vibromonk Studios, Brooklyn, New York The Man on the Burning Tightrope(2003) Songs We Should Have Written(2004) Similar Songs We Should Have Writ, Psychopharmacology, The Ponzi Scheme, Get Off the Cross - We Need the, The Golden Hour

Firewater the man on the burning tightrope

The Man on the Burning Tightrope is the fourth album by Firewater, released on June 17, 2003 through Jetset Records.

All tracks written by Tod Ashley, except where noted.

Firewater

Tod Ashley – vocals, bass guitar, Mellotron, bouzouki, production, design

Oren Kaplan – guitar

Tamir Muskat – drums, loops, production, mixing

Paul Wallfisch – organ, piano, celesta

Additional musicians and production

Dave Ballou – trumpet, flugelhorn on "Too Many Angels"

Joe Fiedler – trombone on "The Vegas Strip", "Ponzi's Revenge" and "Don't Make It Stop"

Victoria Hanna – vocals on "Dark Days Indeed" and "Dark Days Revisited"

Scott Hull – mastering

Yuri Lemeshev – accordion on "Dark Days Indeed", "Dark Days Revisited" and "Before the Fall"

Willy Martinez – percussion on "Too Much (Is Never Enough)", "The Truth Hurts" and "Ponzi's Revenge"

James Moore – cover art

Morgan St. Boot Boys – stomping on "Dark Days Indeed"

The Muskat Orchestra – horns on "Anything at All", strings on "Secret", arrangement on "Secret" and "The Vegas Strip"

Ramallah Orphan Choir – backing vocals on "Dark Days Indeed"

Asaf Roth – glockenspiel and cymbal on "Fanfare" and "Before the Fall", marimba on "The Vegas Strip"

Dan Shatsky – mixing

Itamar Ziegler – bass guitar on "Too Much (Is Never Enough)" and "Secret"

1Fanfare0:22
2Anything at All4:21
3Too Much (Is Never Enough)4:01

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