Lost Souls is the debut album by Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

-based American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

/Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

/Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

  folk

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

/roots rock

Roots rock

Roots rock is a term now used to describe rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. It is particularly associated with the creation of hybrid sub-genres from the later 1960s including country rock and Southern rock, which have been seen as responses to the...

 band The Raindogs

The Raindogs

The Raindogs were a band formed in Boston, United States around 1985 after several members had disbanded the rock band The Schemers. They combined Celtic and American music to form their own hybrid of rock and roll...

, released in 1990 on the Atco

Atco Records

ATCO Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment.-Beginnings:Atco Records was founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records. It was devised as an outlet for productions by one of Atlantic's founders, Herb Abramson, who...

 label. Entirely written by lead singer Mark Cutler

Mark Cutler

Mark Cutler is a recording artist and singer-songwriter from Providence, Rhode Island. Mark Cutler has been the lead singer and songwriter for The Schemers, The Raindogs, and The Dino Club.-External links:...

 and featuring the band's trademark hybrid roots rock sound with Celtic

Celtic music

Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...

 elements, Lost Souls garnered a great deal of critical attention and praise in Boston and New England

New England

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. A national breakout could not be achieved however, and the album's market remained largely confined to the said region.

Track listing

(All tracks written by Mark Cutler

Mark Cutler

Mark Cutler is a recording artist and singer-songwriter from Providence, Rhode Island. Mark Cutler has been the lead singer and songwriter for The Schemers, The Raindogs, and The Dino Club.-External links:...

)

1. "I'm Not Scared" 3:23
2. "May Your Heart Keep Beating" 3:50
3. "Phantom Flame" 3:31
4. "The Higher Road" 3:04
5. "Too Many Stars" 3:19
6. "Nobody's Getting Out" 3:18
7. "Cry for Mercy" 3:37
8. "Adventure" 3:04
9. "This Is the Place" 3:57
10. "Under the Rainbow" 3:59
11. "I Believe" 4:17
12. "Something Wouldn't Be the Same" 4:43

Personnel

Mark Cutler

Mark Cutler

Mark Cutler is a recording artist and singer-songwriter from Providence, Rhode Island. Mark Cutler has been the lead singer and songwriter for The Schemers, The Raindogs, and The Dino Club.-External links:...

 - Lead vocals/guitar

Johnny Cunningham

Johnny Cunningham

Johnny Cunningham was a Scottish folk musician. He was a founding member of Silly Wizard, as well as a member of Relativity, The Raindogs, and Nightnoise. Throughout his career, Cunningham was also a fiddler, composer and producer. His younger brother, Phil Cunningham, is a multi-instrumentalist...

 - Fiddle/mandolin

Jim Reilly

Jim Reilly

James G. "Jim" Reilly is the second drummer for the Northern Ireland based punk band Stiff Little Fingers, with whom he played from 1979 to 1981. He played on the LPs Nobody's Heroes, Go for It and Hanx. In 1981 he moved to the United States, where he played in two bands, Red Rockers, followed by...

- Drums

Darren Hill - Bass

Emerson Torrey - Guitar/vocals

Jim Fitting - Harmonica

Gordon Beadle/Scott Shetler/Curtis Stone/Myanna Pontoppidan - Horns

Richard Reed/Peter Henderson - Keyboards

Cheryl Hodges - Background vocals

Tony Cuffe - Whistles

Sa Davies - Percussion

Ralph Tufo - Accordion