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Track listing

#"Buck Fever" – 5:45 #"The Dapper Bandits" – 8:03 #"The Silent Elk of Yesterday" – 6:17 #"Crag Lake" – 0:48 #"Meteorite Showers" – 8:14 #"The Bounty Hunter" – 6:17 #"Super Buck II" (Cover of

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ground theme)– 2:35 #"Millennium Child" – 8:16 #"Trampoline Klan" – 2:02 #"Burnt Corpse" – 0:14 #"Rise n' Shine (Epic Doobie Nightmare #"1)" – 2:27 #"Bride of the Buck" – 1:39 #"A Very Intense Battle" – 8:40 #"Green Hill" – 1:25 #"Feed Your Mama's Meter (Remix 2001)" – 4:15 #"What Deers May Come" – 5:28

Album credits

The Band ("The Big Game Hunters")

* Timb Harris – solo violin, violin sections, solo and section trumpets, mandolin, euphonium, keyboards. * David Murray – drums, didjeridu, percussion, (djembe, shaker, tambourine, timpani, roto toms, dombek, orchestral percussion), new age keyboards. *

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– acoustic and electric guitars, baritone guitar, sitar guitar, banjo, lapsteel, keyboard (organs, piano, glockenspiel, toy piano, choir, chimes, electric pino, clav) * Tim Smolens – upright bass, hollowbody and electric bass, bowed bass sections, keyboard (synth bass, handclaps, organs, timpani, gong, strings, sound fx, samples, choir, new age sounds, etc.) synth programming, techno loops. *

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– tenor, alto, baritone and soprano saxophones, flute, vocals, throat singing, percussion (congas, clave, guiro, shaker, tambourine, woodblock, cowbell), accordion, piano, cp-70, electric piano, clav

Personnel ("Seasonal Hunters")

*Producer: Tim Smolens *Recording Engineer: Tim Smolens *Recording Engineer (drums): Justin Phelps,

*Mastered:

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Dedication

''Buck Fever'' was created in memory of Smith Dobson.

References

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