Keep Your Courage (Limited Edition, Transparent gold vinyl)

~ Release by Natalie Merchant (see all versions of this release, 3 available)

Tracklist

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1▼12" Vinyl
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A1Big Girls
guest lead vocals [special guest vocals]:
Abena Koomson-Davis (Performer, educator & wordsmith)
horn [horn arrangement] arranger:
John Mills (American saxophonist, composer, and arranger)
strings [string arrangement] arranger:
Stephen Barber (US composer, arranger and musician)
recording of:
Big Girls
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
44:57
A2Come On, Aphrodite
guest lead vocals [special guest vocals]:
Abena Koomson-Davis (Performer, educator & wordsmith)
horn [horn arrangement] arranger:
Steve Davis (jazz trombonist)
recording of:
Come On, Aphrodite
lyricist and composer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
45:20
A3Sister Tilly
orchestrator:
Gabriel Kahane (American composer)
recording of:
Sister Tilly
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
7:42
B1Narcissus
orchestrator:
Megan Gould (violinist, formerly Megan Weeder) and David Spear
recording of:
Narcissus
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
6:02
B2Hunting the Wren
orchestrator:
Megan Gould (violinist, formerly Megan Weeder)
recording of:
Hunting the Wren
writer:
Darragh Lynch, Cormac Dermody (Irish songwriter, fiddler, banjo player and vocalist), Lankum (formerly Lynched), Ian Lynch, John Murphy (engineer, aka John ‘Spud’ Murphy) and Radie Peat (Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist)
publisher:
Beggars Music America
5:47
B3Guardian Angel
orchestrator:
Colin Jacobsen (viola)
recording of:
Guardian Angel
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
5:56
2▼12" Vinyl
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C1Eye of the Storm
recording of:
Eye of the Storm
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
5:30
C2Tower of Babel
horn [horn arrangement] arranger:
Steve Davis (jazz trombonist)
recording of:
Tower of Babel
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
52:28
C3Song of Himself
recording of:
Song of Himself
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
4:51
C4The Feast of Saint Valentine
strings [string arrangement] arranger:
Megan Gould (violinist, formerly Megan Weeder)
recording of:
The Feast of Saint Valentine
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
6:06
D1Spring & Fall: To a Young Child
recording engineer:
Nick Wollage
assistant engineer:
Kabir Hermon (task: second assistant engineer), Brian Thorn (task: second assistant engineer), Eli Walker and Dustin Wickell (task: second assistant engineer)
producer:
Andrés Levín and Natalie Merchant
mixer:
Steve Rosenthal
bass:
Jeremy McCoy (Canadian double bassist)
bass clarinet:
Lino Gomez (Baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetist)
bass trombone:
George Flynn (trombone)
bassoon:
Marc Goldberg (bassoonist)
cello:
Jeanne LeBlanc and Eileen Moon (cellist)
French horn:
Michelle Baker (French hornist), Erik Ralske (horn player), Phil Myers (hornist) and Howard Wall (hornist)
harp:
Ina Zdorovetchi (harpist)
oboe:
Sherry Sylar (American oboist)
percussion:
Erik Charlston
tenor trombone:
Birch Johnson and Mike Davis (US jazz trombonist)
tuba:
Kyle Turner (tuba)
viola:
Karen Dreyfus (violist) and Robert Rinehart
violin:
Minyoung Baik (Classical violinist), Shan Jiang (violinist), Ann Lehmann, Lisa Kim (violinist), Matt Lehmann, Sandra Park (violinist), Arnaud Sussmann and Sharon Yamada (violinist)
lead vocals:
Natalie Merchant
orchestrator:
Natalie Merchant and Sean O’Loughlin (composer, arranger, conductor)
recorded at:
The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck (town)
mixed at:
The Magic Shop in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
recording of:
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
lyricist:
Gerard Manley Hopkins (English poet)
composer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Downtown DLJ Songs, Molly Castle Music (ASCAP-affiliated) and Words Public Domain
3:04
D2Butterfly
recording of:
Butterfly
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
5:40
D3Giving Up Everything
miscellaneous support:
Sandra Park (violinist) (task: orchestra contractor)
cello:
Ru Pie Yeh (classical cellist) and Alan Stepansky (cellist)
double bass:
Jeremy McCoy (Canadian double bassist) and Kurt Muroki (double bassist)
drums (drum set):
Shawn Pelton
electric bass guitar [electric bass]:
Jesse Murphy
electric guitar:
Gabriel Gordon
viola:
Kyle Armbrust and Robert Rinehart
violin:
Quan Ge (classical violinist), Lisa Kim (violinist), Liz Lim, Joanna Maurer (violinist), Sein Ryu (violinist) and Sharon Yamada (violinist)
background vocals [backing vocals]:
Elizabeth Mitchell and Johanna Warren (from band Sticklips)
vocals:
Natalie Merchant
strings [string arrangement] arranger:
Tony Finno and Nadége Foofat
recording of:
Giving Up Everything
writer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
4:26
D4Frozen Charlotte
engineer:
Todd Vos
assistant mixer:
Mike Scotella
mixer:
Jim Scott (US recording engineer and producer)
bass guitar:
Graham Maby
electric guitar:
Don Peris
membranophone:
Peter Yanowitz
Wurlitzer electric piano:
Natalie Merchant
vocals:
Natalie Merchant and Karen Peris
recording of:
Frozen Charlotte
lyricist and composer:
Natalie Merchant
publisher:
Indian Love Bride Music
6:03

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cello:Eleanor Norton (cellist)