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Track listing

#"Circles Around The Sun" (Urmston) - 3:35 #"Not Messin'" (Urmston) - 3:45 #"Get Ready Boy" (Urmston) - 2:31 #"Sign Of The Times" (Heimbold/Corrigan/Urmston) - 2:51 #"Josaphine" (Urmston) - 5:53 #"Flag" (Corrigan) - 3:34 #"Come To Me" (Heimbold) - 4:43 #"Never Or Now" (Urmston) - 3:31 #"We Hold A Gun" (Corrigan) - 4:17 #"Feels So Good" (Heimbold) - 3:56

Personnel

*Brad Corrigan - vocals, drums, rhythm & lead guitar, ukulele, charango, keyboards, harmonica, percussion *Pete Francis - vocals, bass guitar, rhythm & lead guitar, keyboards, drums *Chadwick Stokes Urmston - vocals, rhythm & lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion ;Additional musicians *Craig Dreyer - keyboards, tenor saxophone, flute - all tracks *Reinaldo DeJesus - percussion - all tracks except track 5 *Boo Reiners - banjo, mandolin - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 *Kenny Shaw - drums - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 *Background vocals on Feels So Good - Paul Maddison, Kenny Shaw, Rey DeJesus *Hand Claps on Circles Around The Sun - Jen Bruecker, Jeff Breucker and Kirk Leftwich *Adam Young - additional drum programming, mixing, production *Peter Katis, Greg Giorgio - production, engineering

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