''Careful Confessions'' is the 2004 independently produced debut studio album by

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. In addition to seven studio tracks, the album features four songs recorded during live performances. Several of the songs on the album were re-recorded to appear on Bareilles' second album, '' Little Voice,'' her major label debut. The album was recorded and mixed at Asylum Recording Studios in

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, over roughly a one-month period in 2003. Bareilles produced alongside college friend Gabriel Mann, prolific singer/songwriter, music producer, television and video game music composer, and member of Los Angeles alternative rock band

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. Mann had produced two albums for Awaken, the college a cappella group Bareilles sang in while attending

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. After Bareilles was signed to

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in 2005 and the success of her second and major-label debut ''Little Voice'' in 2007, ''Careful Confessions'' was reissued in early 2008.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Sara Bareilles; track 3 additional composition by Javier Dunn

Personnel

*Sara Bareilles –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Josh Day –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(tracks 1-7, 11) *Travis Carlton –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

(tracks 1-8, 11) *Javier Dunn –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

*Mona Tavakoli - drums, background vocals (tracks 8-10) *Chaska Potter - background vocals (tracks 8-10) *Josh Archibec - bass (tracks 9, 10)

References

Sara Bareilles albums 2004 debut albums {{2000s-pop-album-stub