CD Details
- Released: January 23, 2001
- Label: Appleseed Records
Entertainment Reviews:
Dirty Linen - 8-9/01, pp.53-4
"...The disc showcases some adventurous arrangements and fine writing..."
Tracks:
- 1.Good Morning (I Just Woke Up)
- 2.Your Ghost (Don't Scare Me No More)
- 3.Window Seat
- 4.Burn
- 5.It's All My Fault
- 6.Sweat Tears Blood And Come
- 7.Poor Heart
- 8.Miss Fortune
- 9.Songs I Wrote Myself In The Future
- 10.Something To Write Home About
- 11.You're Looking At Me
- 12.You So & So
- 13.I'm Staying Here (And I'm Not Buying A Gun)
- 14.Good Bye (Late O'Clock)
- 15.Wooden Overcoat
- 16.Jackson Cage
- 17.Punch 'n' Judy
- 18.I Just Woke Up
- 19.Wreck On The Highway - (live, featuring Bruce Springsteen)
Product Description:
Personnel: John Wesley Harding (vocals, acoustic, electric & 12 string guitars, E-bow, keymonica, piano, Leslie piano, organ, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, bass, cymbal, sleigh bells, tubular bells, triangle, percussion, samples); Bruce Springsteen (vocals, acoustic guitar); Kelly Hogan (vocals); Scott McCaughey (various instruments, piano, background vocals); Kurt Bloch (12 string guitar); Chris von Sneidern (E-bow, bass, background vocals); Chuck Prophet (guitar); Robert Lloyd (mandolin, accordion, Hammond organ, organ); Carrie Bradley (violin); Peter Straus, Jim Sangster (bass); Steve Bowman, Mike Musburger (drums); Allison Faith Levy (background vocals); The Glass Armonica Orchestra of Hastings and St. Leonards.
Producers: John Wesley Harding, Chris von Sneidern.
Engineers: John Wesley Harding, Chris von Sneidern.
Recorded at: Ordophon-upon-Avon, San Francisco, California; Low Beat West, Seattle, Washington; McCabes, Santa Monica, California. Originally released on Zero Hour (1210).
Digitally remastered by Paul "The Gaul" Stubblebine.
Personnel: John Wesley Harding (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, strings, piano, organ, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, 12-string bass, cymbals, triangle, tubular bells, percussion, bells, sleigh bell, sampler); Bruce Springsteen (vocals, acoustic guitar); Kelly Hogan (vocals, background vocals); Chuck Prophet (guitar, electric guitar, percussion); Kurt Bloch (guitar, 12-string bass); CVS (electric guitar, E-bow, shaker, percussion, background vocals); Robert Lloyd (mandolin, piano, organ); Carrie Bradley (violin); Scott McCaughey (piano, background vocals); Mike Musburger, Steve Bowman (drums); Alison Faith Levy (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Chris Sneidren.
Recording information: Low Beat, Seattle, WA (06/18/1994-??/??/1997); McCabes, Santa Monica, CA (06/18/1994-??/??/1997); Ordophon-Upon-Avon, San Francisco, CA (06/18/1994-??/??/1997).
Photographers: Trudy Fisher; Sheila Sachs; Jim Newberry.
Arranger: Chris Sneidren.
Billed as John Wesley Harding and the Gangsta Folk, Dare seems to be an attempt to recast the singer/songwriter in a different light, incorporating elements of electronica to earn more street cred. The Gangsta Folk are in truth not a band, but rather Harding handling multiple instruments (often of the more exotic variety like e-bow, moogs, and mellotron), along with a few guests like Scott McCaughey, Robert Lloyd, Kelly Hogan, and pop purist Chris von Schneidern. And while the experimentation is implemented quite well -- especially in the lighter-and-match-strike percussion loop of "Burn" -- Harding's craft remains untouched. His acid-tongued, always-clever phrasing, folky leanings, and strong sense of melody show him to be one of the finest (and unfairly overlooked) songwriters of the '90s. ~ Chris Woodstra
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