Souls For Sale is the first album

Album

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 by rock band Verbena

Verbena (band)

Verbena was a rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, founded in the early 1990s by Scott Bondy, and Daniel Duquette Johnston who would become mainstays for the entirety of the bands career, despite undergoing several line-up changes...

, released in 1997

1997 in music

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 and would be the only album in which they would appear as a quartet

Quartet

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. It is of note that the UK version of the album features an entirely different, alternative take of "Postcard Blues" clocking in at 2:30. The album was released on Setanta Records

Setanta Records

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, under license to Merge Records

Merge Records

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 in the US.

Track listing

All songs written by Verbena

Verbena (band)

Verbena was a rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, founded in the early 1990s by Scott Bondy, and Daniel Duquette Johnston who would become mainstays for the entirety of the bands career, despite undergoing several line-up changes...

.

1. "Hot Blood" – 3:46
2. "Shaped Like A Gun" - 3:21
3. "Junk For Fashion" - 5:03
4. "The Song That Ended Your Career" - 4:25
5. "The Desert" - 3:16
6. "Hey, Come On" - 3:01
7. "Me & Keith" - 4:21
8. "So What" - 3:23
9. "Postcard Blues" - 2:54
10. "Kiss Yourself" - 3:48

Personnel

• Scott Bondy - vocals and guitar
• Anne Marie Griffin - guitar and vocals
• Duquette Johnston - bass
• Les Nuby - drums

Production

• Producer: Dave Fridmann
  Dave Fridmann
  Dave Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. From 1990 onwards he co-produced all releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips...
  
   and Verbena
  Verbena (band)
  Verbena was a rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, founded in the early 1990s by Scott Bondy, and Daniel Duquette Johnston who would become mainstays for the entirety of the bands career, despite undergoing several line-up changes...
  
  
• Producer: Jim Jones (tracks 2, 8, 9, and 10)
• Engineer: Dave Fridmann
  Dave Fridmann
  Dave Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. From 1990 onwards he co-produced all releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips...
  
   and Verbena
  Verbena (band)
  Verbena was a rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, founded in the early 1990s by Scott Bondy, and Daniel Duquette Johnston who would become mainstays for the entirety of the bands career, despite undergoing several line-up changes...
  
  
• Mixing: Phil Thornally
• Design: Arcrane
• Photography: Mark Gooch