Winter Pays For Summer is an album released in 2005 by Glen Phillips

Glen Phillips

Glen Phillips is a songwriter, lyricist, singer and guitarist. He is best known as the singer and songwriter of 1990s alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket.-Personal life:...

. The album was Phillips' debut for Lost Highway/Universal Records

Universal Records

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. It was recorded during 2003 and 2004. It was produced by John Fields at Paramount Studios

Paramount Pictures

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 and Mansfield Lodge, and features guest appearances by Jon Brion

Jon Brion

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, Sam Phillips

Sam Phillips

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, Ben Folds

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, Andy Sturmer

Andy Sturmer

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, Kristin Mooney

Kristin Mooney

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, and Jonathan Foreman

Jon Foreman

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. The album boasts a well-produced, radio-ready sheen unheard since Phillips' days with Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986. The band consists of singer/guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with the singles "Walk on the Ocean," "All I Want,"...

.

It includes the debut single "Thankful", which was Phillips' first radio release for a major label since Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986. The band consists of singer/guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with the singles "Walk on the Ocean," "All I Want,"...

's 1997 release Coil

Coil (album)

Coil is an album by Toad the Wet Sprocket released in 1997. It is their fifth studio album, and the final one before the band broke up in 1998. As with previous albums, Coil was released under the Columbia Records label and produced by Gavin MacKillop....

. However the song was pulled from radio following a slow start and "Duck And Cover" was pushed to stations as the album's first single.

After being in stores only a few months Lost Highway dropped promotion for the album mid-tour and Glen Phillips asked to be let out of his record deal to create the quiet, and less radio-geared "Mr. Lemons"

Track listing

All songs written by Glen Phillips, except where noted otherwise.

1. "Duck and Cover" – 3:23
2. "Thankful" – 2:59
3. "Courage" – 3:30
4. "Released" (Phillips, Dan Wilson
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   ) – 4:04
5. "Cleareyed" (Phillips, Wilson) – 3:59
6. "Falling" – 3:15
7. "Half-Life" – 4:14
8. "True" (Phillips, Wilson) – 3:14
9. "Easier" – 3:18
10. "Finally Fading" – 3:27
11. "Simple" – 4:05
12. "Gather" – 3:10
13. "Don't Need Anything" – 2:35

Known Studio Outtakes

1. "Courage" (Alternate Version)
2. "Brain Trust Kid"
3. "Let's Ruin Everything Tonight (Featuring 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...
   
   )"
4. "Better Off Here"
5. "The Hole"
6. "Revelator" (Gillian Welch Cover)
7. "Make Me Forget (released as "Good As Ever" on WPA)"
8. "Black Dog Beside Me"
9. "Always Returning" (Phillips, Danny Wilde
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   )
10. "I Still Love You (Featuring Sam Phillips
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    )"
11. "The Innocent"
12. "Chapel Perilous"

"The Hole" song was used in a Breaking Bad episode from the first season called "Cat's in the bag..."