Cruel Inventions
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Cruel Inventions is the sixth (studio) album from American
United States
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 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips (singer)
Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an American singer and a songwriter.-Biography:Phillips was born in Glendale, California. She began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Christian artists Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and others...

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Track listing

All songs by Sam Phillips.
  1. "Lying" – 3:52
  2. "Go Down" – 3:38
  3. "Cruel Inventions" – 3:00
  4. "Standing Still" – 3:10
  5. "Tripping Over Gravity" – 5:21
  6. "Now I Can't Find The Door" – 3:36
  7. "Private Storm" – 4:10
  8. "Raised On Promises"– 3:11
  9. "Hole In Time" – 3:19
  10. "Where The Colors Don't Go" – 3:02

Personnel

  • Sam Phillips: Vocals, Guitars, Chamberlain
  • T Bone Burnett: Guitars, Chamberlain
  • Marc Ribot
    Marc Ribot
    Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...

    : Guitars
  • Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

    : Guitars
  • Van Dyke Parks
    Van Dyke Parks
    Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....

    : Chamberlain
  • Jerry Scheff
    Jerry Scheff
    Jerry Obern Scheff is an American bassist, perhaps best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the early 1970s as a member of his TCB Band and his work on The Doors' final recordings....

    : Bass
  • Sandy Bull
    Sandy Bull
    Alexander "Sandy" Bull was an American folk musician who was active from the late 1950s until his death.Born in New York City, he was the only child of Harry A. Bull, an editor in chief of...

    : Ude
  • Jim Goodwin
    Jim Goodwin
    James "Jim" Goodwin is an Irish footballer, currently playing for Scottish Premier League side St. Mirren.-Early career:...

    : Piano
  • Michael Blair: Drums and percussion
  • Ralph Forbes: Drums and percussion
  • Mickey Curry
    Mickey Curry
    Michael Timothy Curry is an American drummer. He is best known for his long-term collaboration with the singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, although he has also worked with Hall & Oates, Cher, Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sam Phillips, Tom Waits, The Cult, Steve Jones and...

    : Drums and percussion
  • David Kemper
    David Kemper
    David Kemper is a drummer. He was a long-time member of both the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Dylan's band . He was with the Jerry Garcia Band for the last eleven years of Garcia's life...

    : Drums and percussion
  • Scott Musick: Drums and percussion
  • Alex Acuña
    Alex Acuña
    Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist, in the Afro-Cuban jazz style.Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved...

    : Drums and percussion
  • String Quartet Arranged by Van Dyke Parks.
  • The Sid Page Strings are: Sid Page
    Sid Page
    Sid Page is an American based violin player who has been playing since the late 1960s. He became a member of Dan Hicks & The Hotlicks replacing violinist David LaFlamme...

    : Violin, Joel Derouin: Violin, John Acevedo: Viola, and Larry Corbett: Cello.

Production notes

  • Produced by T Bone Burnett.
  • Recorded by Stacy Baird, Rik Pekkonen, Joe Schiff.
  • Mixed by Tchad Blake
    Tchad Blake
    Tchad Blake is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including State Radio, Apartment 26, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Brazilian Girls, Sheryl Crow, November 2nd, Travis, Marike...

     and Kevin Killen.
  • Recorded at Eagle Audio, Fort Worth, Texas
    Fort Worth, Texas
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    ; Ocean Way Recorders, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    ; Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Reggie Fisher's, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
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  • Mixed at Ocean Way Recorders.
  • Assistant Engineers: Eric Rudd, Max Garcia, Mark Guilbeault, Julie Last, Chris Niswander, Brian Soucy, Tom Nellen and Jeff Ward.
  • Mastered by Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....

     at Masterdisc.
  • Photography: Anton Corbijn
    Anton Corbijn
    Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...

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  • "Hole In Time" dedicated to Walker Percy
    Walker Percy
    Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962...

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