''Time Stand Still'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band the Hooters, released in Europe on September 14, 2007, and released in the US on February 5, 2008.

Background

The Hooters gathered in October 2006 at keyboard player Rob Hyman's Elmstreet Studios, in suburban

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, for the recording of basic tracks, followed by additional recording at guitarist Eric Bazilian's Red Door Recording studio. Several of the songs on the album had been previewed during the Hooters' live shows in 2005 and 2006, with one of the tracks, "Until You Dare," originally recorded on Bazilian's 2000 solo album ''The Optimist.'' There is a

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of Don Henley's 1984 song " The Boys of Summer" that came about as a result of Hyman and Bazilian being asked to participate in a show for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation in

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, where bands from the 1980s were asked to play their own songs while also choosing a song that they wished that they had written from the 1980s. After performing the song as part of their live shows the previous two years, they decided to record a studio version for inclusion on the album. The final mixes were completed in May 2007.

Release Schedule

The album was commercially released in

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and

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on September 14, 2007, with pre-release copies available during the band's summer tour of Europe from June through August, featuring shows in

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, The Netherlands and

. The album was released in the

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on February 5, 2008 and was released in other countries in early 2008.

Track listing

Personnel

;The Hooters * Eric Bazilian – lead vocals,

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s, bass, mandolin, harmonica, recorder, keyboards,

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, saxophone * Rob Hyman – lead vocals, piano, keyboards,

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

, mandolin, accordion, melodica * John Lilley – guitar, mandolin, dobro * Fran Smith Jr. – bass, backing vocals * David Uosikkinen –

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 ...

;Technical *Eric Bazilian – producer *Rob Hyman – producer *John O. Senior – engineer *Jesse Honig – assistant engineer * George Marino – mastering *Paul Hammond – technician *Graham Perry – art direction *Lauren Lyons – photography *Lisa Schaffer – photography *Stephan Kohler, Hans-Georg Krumm, Candy Langbein, Douglas A. Lockard, Brigitte Morgenstern, Graham Perry – live photos

References

External links

TIME STANDS STILL FOR THE HOOTERS CO-FRONTMAN ROB HYMAN
''iF Magazine'', March 6, 2008

'' Daily News'', March 2, 2008
Hooters 'Time' again
'' The Philadelphia Inquirer'', February 5, 2008
Still Hooter-Rific
'' Philadelphia Daily News'', February 5, 2008 {{Authority control 2007 albums The Hooters albums Albums produced by Eric Bazilian Albums produced by Rob Hyman