After the Morning After is the second solo EP of singer/songwriter Todd Carey

Todd Carey

Todd Carey is an American musician and singer-songwriter currently signed to Rock Ridge Music. Born and raised near Chicago, Illinois, he later relocated to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California for a degree in music. At USC, Carey formed a band, Telepathy, with other students...

. It was released in the US on June 14, 2010.

History

After the Morning After was the first major release from Todd Carey after releasing Watching Waiting

Watching Waiting

Watching Waiting is the third studio solo album of singer/songwriter Todd Carey. It was distributed by High Wire Music/Fontana in the US on March 27th, 2007.-History:...

in 2007. After spending two years touring and supporting the Watching Waiting album, Carey moved from Chicago

Chicago

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 to Brooklyn, New York to begin work on material for another album. Carey assembled songs and demos that he recorded in his Park Slope apartment with the intent on self-producing his next release. At some point Carey flew to Los Angeles

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 with a CD of songs and played them for producer Mikal Blue, whom he knew through Brendan James

Brendan James

Brendan James is an American singer-songwriter originally from Derry, New Hampshire, who started in New York City but is currently residing in California...

, who had worked with Blue to produce his last album, The Day is Brave

The Day is Brave

The Day Is Brave is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Brendan James. It was released on June 3, 2008. The album is an extension of his previous four-song EP The Ballroom Break In which released in 2007....

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After meeting and listening to Carey's music, Blue asked Carey to begin recording together and working on material, which they did. They ended up producing a full album's worth of material, but the release was cut down to an EP. Carey self-published and distributed the EP to iTunes

ITunes

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and other retailers with little marketing, but the EP debuted in the top 40 on iTunes charts.

Track listing

All songs written by Todd Carey, except for "The Kind of Man I Am" which was written by Todd Carey/Mikal Blue.

Musicians

• Todd Carey: vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, whirly
• Mikal Blue: bass, acoustic guitar, strings, whirly
• Victor Indrizzo: drums
• Steve Black: cello
• Amber Rubarth: vocals ("Gotta Be Next to You")

Production

• Mikal Blue: engineering, recording, production, mixing
• Jeff Sojka: assistant recording engineering
• Andrew Dixon: assistant recording engineering
• Brian Gelber: executive producer
• Laura Crosta: photography
• Peter Michels: cover design