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His Name Is Alive: Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth

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On August 7, 2001, “4AD” label released “Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth”, the sixth His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded 1998 – 2000 and was produced by Steve King and Warn Defever.

Personnel:

  • Warn Defever – various instruments
  • Fred Thomas – acoustic guitar, bass
  • Steve King – bass
  • Zach Wallace – upright bass
  • Scott Goldstein – drums
  • Brett Lyman – drums, congas
  • Lovetta Pippen – vocals
  • Ida Pearl – violin
  • Jake Danziger – violin
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Vaughan Oliver – art direction, design
  • Lucien Rudaux – images

Track listing:

All tracks by Warn Defever.

  1. Nothing Special
  2. Interlude
  3. Happy Blues
  4. Solitude
  5. Write My Name in the Groove
  6. Your Cheating Heart
  7. Our Last Affair
  8. One Year
  9. Interlude
  10. Karin’s Blues
  11. Are We Still Married?
  12. Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth
  13. Last Time

His Name Is Alive: Ft. Lake

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On June 22, 1998, “4AD” label released “Ft. Lake” (Fort Lake), the fifth His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded 1997 – 1998 and was produced by Steve King, Chad Gilchrist, Erika Hoffmann, Karin Oliver, Lovetta Pippen, Scott Goldstein, Trey Many and, Warn Defever.

Personnel:

  • Chad Gilchrist – performer
  • Erika Hoffmann – performer
  • Karin Oliver – performer
  • Lovetta Pippen – performer
  • Scott Goldstein – performer
  • Trey Many – performer
  • Warn Defever – performer
  • Andy Krieger – performer
  • Dara – performer
  • Jake – performer
  • Zack – performer
  • Vaughan Oliver – art direction, design
  • Timothy O’Donnell – design
  • Dominic Davies – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Chad Gilchrist, Erika Hoffmann, Karin Oliver, Lovetta Pippen, Scott Goldstein, Trey Many and Warn Defever.

  1. Don’t Glue the World
  2. Everything Takes Forever
  3. The Waitress
  4. No Hiding Place Down Her
  5. Can’t Always Be Loved
  6. Wish I Had a Wishing Ring
  7. Red Haired Girl
  8. Spirit Needs a Spirit Tool
  9. Up Your Legs Forever
  10. How It’s Gotta Be
  11. Always Turn Me On
  12. Rock & Roll Girl from Rock & Roll City
  13. Last American Blues

Sponge: Wax Ecstatic

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On July 2, 1996, “Columbia” label released “Wax Ecstatic”, the second Sponge studio album. It was recorded in 1996, and was produced by Tim Patalan, Vinnie Dombroski, Michael Cross, Tim Cross, Joey Mazzola and Charlie Grover.

Personnel:

  • Vinnie Dombroski– vocals, guitar, drums
  • Michael Cross – guitars, bass
  • Tim Cross – bass
  • Joey Mazzola– guitars
  • Charlie Grover – drums
  • Chris Codish – acoustic piano
  • Richard Butler– additional vocal
  • Johnny Evans – tenor, alto and baritone sax
  • Mando Dorame– sax solo
  • Steve Baxter – trombone
  • Donald Hayes – saxophone
  • Anne King – trumpet
  • Tim Patalan – cello, recording
  • Andy Patalan, Matt Hanson – recording assistants
  • Steve King – engineer
  • Lamont Hyde – engineer assistant
  • Tim Palmer– mixing, additional production
  • Jamie Seyberth – additional engineering
  • Mark O’Donoughue – mixing
  • Mike Corbett – post production edit
  • Howie Weinberg– mastering
  • Mary Maurer – art direction
  • SITE – design
  • Melanie Nissen – photography

Track listing:

  1. My Purity – Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross
  2. Got to Be a Bore – Vinnie Dombroski
  3. Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) – Vinnie Dombroski
  4. The Drag Queens of Memphis – Vinnie Dombroski
  5. I Am Anastasia – Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross, Joey Mazzola
  6. Silence is Their Drug – Vinnie Dombroski
  7. Have You Seen Mary – Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross
  8. My Baby Said – Vinnie Dombroski, Joey Mazzola
  9. The Death of a Drag Queen – Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross, Joey Mazzola
  10. Velveteen (contains the hidden track Imagine You) – Vinnie Dombroski