Eventually is the second solo album that Paul Westerberg

Paul Westerberg

Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...

 released after the breakup of The Replacements.

The album started out in Atlanta with producer Brendan O'Brien

Brendan O'Brien (music producer)

Brendan O’Brien is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.At age 14, O'Brien played guitar for the Atlanta-based cover band Pranks. In the late 1970s, he moved on to writing, performing and recording with the Samurai Catfish band...

. Although those sessions produced good results—the leadoff single, "Love Untold", among them—Westerberg and O'Brien parted ways. O'Brien was pressed for time, and Westerberg needed more time to write enough songs to fill out a full album. Westerberg regrouped with Lou Giordano

Lou Giordano

Lou Giordano is a record producer and recording engineer who worked at Radiobeat Studios and Fort Apache Studios. He has produced a wide variety of bands, including Hüsker Dü, the Goo Goo Dolls, and many others....

.

The song "Good Day" was written for late Replacements guitarist Bob Stinson

Bob Stinson

For the baseball player, see Bob Stinson Bob Stinson was the founding member and lead guitarist for the American rock band The Replacements.-The Replacements:...

. It references "Hold My Life", a track from the album Tim

Tim (album)

Tim is an album released in October 1985 on Sire Records by the alternative rock band The Replacements. It was their first major label release...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Westerberg, except where noted

1. "These Are the Days" – 3:58
2. "Century" – 4:35
3. "Love Untold" – 4:16
4. "Ain't Got Me" – 3:25
5. "You've Had It with You" – 3:11
6. "MamaDaddyDid" – 2:57
7. "Hide n Seekin'" – 3:06
8. "Once Around the Weekend" – 3:56
9. "Trumpet Clip" – 3:17
10. "Angels Walk" – 3:22
11. "Good Day" – 4:19
12. "Time Flies Tomorrow" – 4:33

Japanese edition bonus track

13. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" (Barry Mann
    Barry Mann
    Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.-Career:...
    
     and Cynthia Weil
    Cynthia Weil
    Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with her husband Barry Mann....
    
    ) – 3:34

Personnel

• Paul Westerberg
  Paul Westerberg
  Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
  
   – 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  , organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , piano
  Piano
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  , saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Brendan O'Brien
  Brendan O'Brien (music producer)
  Brendan O’Brien is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.At age 14, O'Brien played guitar for the Atlanta-based cover band Pranks. In the late 1970s, he moved on to writing, performing and recording with the Samurai Catfish band...
  
   – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Tommy Stinson
  Tommy Stinson
  Thomas "Tommy" Eugene Stinson is an American musician best known for his work as the bassist for The Replacements and Guns N' Roses as well as the post-Replacements groups Bash & Pop, where he performed guitar duties, and Perfect...
  
   – bass guitar and trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  on "Trumpet Clip"