''Safe Inside the Day'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter
Baby Dee. Released on January 21, 2008, it was her debut album on the
Drag City label. It was Dee's first album to feature collaborators. It was produced by and features
Will Oldham
Joseph Will Oldham (born January 15, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Son ...
and
Matt Sweeney
Matt Sweeney (born July 2, 1969) is an American musician and record producer best known as a guitarist of Skunk, Chavez, and supergroup Zwan.
Early life and education
Sweeney was born in New Jersey. His father was John D. Sweeney, a profess ...
. It also features friend and future producer
Andrew WK on bass and drums.
Track listing
All songs written by Baby Dee.
#"Safe Inside the Day" – 6:22
#"The Earlie King" – 5:27
#"A Compass of the Light" – 3:34
#"The Only Bones That Show" – 5:18
#"Fresh out of Candles" – 6:04
#"Big Titty Bee Girl (from Dino Town)" – 3:02
#"Christmas Jig for a Three-Legged Cat" – 1:14
#"Flowers on the Tracks" – 4:02
#"The Dance of Diminishing Possibilities" – 4:11
#"Bad Kidneys" – 4:36
#"You'll Find Your Footing" – 4:54
Personnel
*Baby Dee – vocals (1–6,9-11), piano (1–9,11),
harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...
(8,9),
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 ...
(10),
fender rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...
(10),
bird calls
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply ''birdsong'') are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizatio ...
(10), maniacal laughter (10)
*Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – vocals (1,2,4,5,9,10), fun machine (10)
*Matt Sweeney – guitar (1,3–5,9),
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.
...
(2,9), vocals (2,10), bass (3,9), drums (9,10)
*Andrew WK – bass (1,2,4,5,10,11), drums (3,9)
*Max Moston – violin (1–5,7–9,11)
*Bill Breeze –
viola
The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...
(1–5,9,11)
*John Contreras – cello (1–5,7–9,11)
*Robbie Lee –
woodwinds
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and re ...
(2,4,5,7,10)
*Lia Kessel – vocals (2,4,9)
*James Lo – drums (2,4,5)
*Reggae Paul – drum fill (2,(0.39)), guest bass slide (11, (0.59))
References
External links
"The Dance of Diminishing Possibilities" music video
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2008 albums
Baby Dee albums
Drag City (record label) albums