''Eveningland'' is the second album by

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group

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. It was released on

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after a delay caused by the folding of the DreamWorks music division. The album features a cover of

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's famous song "Jackson," as well as more orchestral arrangements, a change from the sometimes-stark instrumentation of their previous album, '' Rabbit Songs''. The album features backing vocal contributions from multi-instrumentalist

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on a number of songs, and singer-songwriter

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on "Carry Me Home." "Pacific Street" was used in a season 3 episode of ''

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Track listing

All songs written by Dan Messé, except where noted. # "The Fire Thief" - 4:07 # "Lucky" (Messé, Gary Maurer) - 3:49 # "Receiver" - 4:06 # "Redwing" - 4:14 # "My Father’s Waltz" - 2:10 # "Hollow" (Steve Curtis) - 3:54 # "A-Hunting We Will Go" (Messé, Curtis) - 4:17 # "An Easy One" (Messé, Maurer) - 3:10 # "Strays" - 3:51 # "Cincinnati Traveler" (Curtis) - 1:02 # "

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" (

Billy Edd Wheeler Billy Edd Wheeler (December 9, 1932 – September 16, 2024) was an American songwriter, performer, writer, and visual artist. His songs include " Jackson" ( Grammy award winner for Johnny Cash and June Carter) " The Reverend Mr. Black", "Dese ...

Jerry Leiber Leiber and Stoller were an American songwriting and record production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber (; April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller (born March 13, 1933). As well as many R&B and pop hits, they wr ...

) - 3:32 # "Dance with Me" (Curtis) - 3:04 # "The Beautiful Sea" - 2:37 # "Eveningland" - 1:01 # "Pacific Street" - 3:10 # "Carry Me Home" - 5:15

Personnel

*Sally Ellyson -

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 ...

*Dan Messé -

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

glockenspiel The glockenspiel ( ; or , : bells and : play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a Musical keyboard, keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the v ...

*Gary Maurer -

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 ...

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

*Steve Curtis - guitar, mandolin,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

, back-up vocals *Catherine Popper -

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

, back-up vocals *Mark Brotter -

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 ...

*Bob Hoffnar -

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

*Heather Zimmerman -

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

*Greg Pliska - orchestration

References

2004 albums Hem (band) albums Rounder Records albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub