Absolutely is Sister Hazel

Sister Hazel

Sister Hazel are an alternative rock band from Gainesville, Florida, whose style also blends elements of folk rock, pop, classic rock 'n' roll and southern rock. Their music is characterized by highly melodic tunes and generally optimistic lyrics. The band's instrumentation often features abrupt...

's sixth studio album. It was released on October 10, 2006 by Adrenaline/Wandering Hazel Records. It is Sister Hazel's first album since departing from their previous record label, Sixthman. "Mandolin Moon", was the first single. The album was leaked to torrent websites on August 10, 2006. The leaked version was an advance copy of the CD and featured a short spoken-word track in place of "Hello It's Me."

Track listing

1. "Shame" (Carrier, Newell) 3:41
2. "Mandolin Moon (featuring Shawn Mullins
   Shawn Mullins
   Shawn Mullins is an American singer-songwriter who specializes in folk rock, instrumental rock, adult alternative, and Americana music. He is best known for the 1998 single, "Lullaby", which hit number one on the Adult Top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award.-Career:Mullins was born in...
   
   )" (Beres, Block, Newell) 3:34
3. "Meet Me In The Memory (featuring Richard Marx
   Richard Marx
   Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
   
   )" (Block, Marx) 3:23
4. "Beautiful High" (Brice, Copeland, Lynch) 3:07
5. "Hey Hey" (Block) 3:07
6. "Hello It's Me" (Block) 4:03
7. "Tear By Tear" (Block) 5:27
8. "Where Do You Go" (Block) 4:03
9. "Anyway" (Carrier, Newell) 3:47
10. "This Kind Of Love" (Copeland, Lynch) 3:36
11. "Truth Is" (Block) 4:25
12. "One Time" (Beres, Block) 3:35
13. "Everything Else Disappears" (Block) 3:50

Bonus Tracks

All of these 4 bonus tracks were released the following year on BAM! Volume 1

BAM! Volume 1

BAM! Volume 1 is Sister Hazel's first compilation album. It was released on June 5, 2007. It is a "hybrid" album, combining tracks from the Absolutely sessions, live demos, and unheard rare tracks....

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• "Little Black Heart" (iTunes Bonus Track)
• "Cant Get You Off My Mind" (Limited Edition Online Bonus Track. Also found as a hidden track at the end of Track 13 on the initial pressing that is referred to as the Limited Edition Track.)
• "On Your Mind" (Yahoo Online Bonus Track)
• "Wrong the Right Way" (Rhapsody Bonus Track)

Personnel

• Ken Block - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  Steel-string acoustic guitar
  A steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...
  
  
• Jett Beres - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , harmony vocals
• Andrew Copeland
  Andrew Copeland
  Drew Copeland is a member of the band Sister Hazel. He plays baritone, rhythm and acoustic guitar, and sings lead and background vocals for the band. He also originally played harmonica...
  
   - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Ryan Newell - lead
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
   and slide
  Slide guitar
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
  
   guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , harmony vocals
• Mark Trojanowski - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....