Dreaming Out Loud is the fourteenth album from The Radiators

The Radiators (US)

The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are a rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, who have combined the traditional musical styles of their native city with more mainstream rock and R&B influences to form a bouncy, funky variety of swamp-rock they call fish-head music...

, and their seventh original studio album overall. Recorded in New Orleans not long after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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 had devastated that city, and initially released on The Radiators' own Radz Records label, Dreaming Out Loud did not receive wide distribution until it was picked up by SCI Fidelity Records.

Track listing

1. "Ace in the Hole" (Ed Volker
   Ed Volker
   Ed Volker, aka Zeke is a singer, songwriter and keyboard player from New Orleans, Louisiana, and a founding member of the legendary New Orleans band, The Radiators...
   
   , Dave Malone
   Dave Malone
   Dave Malone born August 29, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana is best known as the guitarist/vocalist, and sometimes songwriter, of The Radiators. He has also worked with a wide variety of other musicians, in and out of New Orleans. He has recorded more than a dozen albums with the Radiators,...
   
   ) — 4:11
2. "Dreaming Out Loud" (Volker) — 6:19
3. "Wrestling with the Angel" (Volker) — 3:53
4. "Rub It In" (Volker) — 4:29
5. "Lost Radio" (Volker) — 5:17
6. "The Man Who Lost His Head" (Volker) — 3:44
7. "7 Devils" (Volker) — 5:32
8. "Don't Pray for Me" (D. Malone, Tommy Malone) — 4:08
9. "Rollercoaster" (Volker) — 2:21
10. "The Death of the Blues" (Volker, D. Malone) — 5:37
11. "Desdemona" (Volker) — 2:51
12. "Good Things" (Volker) — 5:11
13. "Shine Tonight" (Volker, D. Malone) — 4:13

Credits

• Ed Volker – vocals, keyboards
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• Dave Malone – vocals, electric and acoustic guitar
  Guitar
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  s, baritone guitar, TEO mando, banjo and E-bow
• Camile Baudoin
  Camile Baudoin
  Camile Baudoin is a guitar player from New Orleans, Louisiana and a founding member of The Radiators.Baudoin shares lead guitar duties in The Radiators with Dave Malone, and plays with or without a slide...
  
   – guitars
• Frank Bua, Jr. – drum
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  s
• Reggie Scanlan
  Reggie Scanlan
  Reggie Scanlan is a bass guitar player and photographer from New Orleans, Louisiana and a founding member of swamp rock band, The Radiators.According to Matthew Haggman of radio station WWOZ in New Orleans, "In the early seventies Scanlan made enough of a name for himself as a bassist to record...
  
   – bass
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• Mark Bingham
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   – producer
  Record producer
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• The Radiators – producer
• Mike Skinkus – percussion ("Dreaming Out Loud", "Wrestling with the Angel", "Don't Pray for Me" and "Rollercoaster")
• Tim Green – tenor sax
  Tenor saxophone
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   ("The Man Who Lost His Head" and "Rollercoaster")
• Susan Cowsill
  Susan Cowsill
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  – vocals ("Shine Tonight" and "Don't Pray for Me")
• Darcy Malone – vocals ("Shine Tonight" and "Don't Pray for Me")