Change No Change, is the only solo album released by Elliot Easton

Elliot Easton

Elliot Easton plays lead guitar and sings backing vocals for The Cars. His guitar solos are integral part of the band's hit singles. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music...

 of The Cars

The Cars

The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...

. It was originally released in 1985 by Elektra Records

Elektra Records

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, re-released in 1995 by Rhino Records, and most recently, by Wounded Bird in 2006.

The original album consists of ten songs written by Elliot Easton and Jules Shear

Jules Shear

Jules Mark Shear is a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost 20 albums to date...

, who also contributed background vocals. Easton plays all guitars, including 12-string guitar, as well as sitar

Sitar

The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...

 and bass

Bass guitar

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The 1995 and 2006 releases feature five tracks from the unreleased debut album by Band of Angels (not to be confused with the mid-60s pop group A Band of Angels

A Band of Angels

A Band Of Angels were a mid 1960s pop group, featuring Mike d'Abo , John Edward Baker , John Christian Gaydon , Andrew Charles Malcolm Glywn Petre , David Robert Wilkinson ....

), a project Easton formed with singer Danny Malone. Easton does not sing lead on these tracks. "Walk on Walden" is an instrumental on 12-string guitar in drop D tuning

Drop D tuning

Drop D tuning, also known as DADGBE, is an alternate, or scordatura, form of guitar tuning — specifically, a dropped tuning — in which the lowest string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D.- Uses of drop D tuning :In drop D the three bass strings...

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Track listing

All songs written by Elliot Easton and Jules Shear

Jules Shear

Jules Mark Shear is a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost 20 albums to date...

.

1. "Tools of Your Labor"
2. "(Wearing Down) Like a Wheel"
3. "Shayla"
4. "Help Me"
5. "(She Made it) New for Me"
6. "I Want You"
7. "The Hard Way"
8. "Fight My Way to Love"
9. "Change"
10. "Wide Awake"

Bonus tracks from Band of Angels

1. "Lonely is the Dark"
2. "Walk on Walden"
3. "Long, Long Time"
4. "Stop the World from Turning"
5. "Let it Slide"

Personnel

• Elliot Easton - vocals, guitars, electric sitar, bass
• Stephen George
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   - drums
• Brad Hallen - bass
• Jon Mathias - synthesizer, background vocals
• Jules Shear
  Jules Shear
  Jules Mark Shear is a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost 20 albums to date...
  
   - background vocals
• Danny Malone - vocals on bonus tracks
• Stan Lynch
  Stan Lynch
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   - drums on bonus tracks
• Benmont Tench
  Benmont Tench
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  - keyboards on bonus tracks