Fair Ain't Fair is Tim Fite

Tim Fite

Tim Fite is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, living and working in Brooklyn. His past releases have run the gamut from indie to alternative to country to hip hop.-History:...

's second studio album released on ANTI- Records

ANTI-

ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus has shifted over the last decade from mostly punk rock, nowadays ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from country , hip hop , reggae , Soul , folk , rap-rock , indie rock...

. As with Gone Ain't Gone

Gone Ain't Gone

Gone Ain't Gone is Tim Fite's second album, his first for the ANTI- label. Many of the sounds on this record are sampled from CDs "rescued" from the dollar bins in used record stores...

, Fite created this album with a mixture of real instrumentation and sampling

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

, resulting in a sound composed of rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 and hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 elements.

Franz Nicolay

Franz Nicolay

Franz Nicolay is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He is perhaps best known for playing the accordion and the piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and playing keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010...

, of The Hold Steady

The Hold Steady

The Hold Steady is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2004. The band consists of Craig Finn , Tad Kubler , Galen Polivka , Bobby Drake , and Steve Selvidge...

, listed the album among his favourite albums of 2008.

Track listing

All songs written by T. Sullivan

Tim Fite

Tim Fite is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, living and working in Brooklyn. His past releases have run the gamut from indie to alternative to country to hip hop.-History:...

, except "Harriet Tubman" (T. Sullivan/C. Lind)

1. "Roots of a Tree" (1:54)
2. "Trouble" (3:26)
3. "The Barber" (3:25)
4. "Big Mistake" (3:28)
5. "Inside Man" (2:02)
6. "Rats and Rags" (3:25)
7. "Yesterday's Garden" (3:14)
8. "Thought I Was a Gun" (2:03)
9. "The Names of All the Animals" (4:24)
10. "Motorcade" (1:37)
11. "More Clothes" (3:28)
12. "Harriet Tubman" (1:36)
13. "My Hands" (4:00)
14. "Heaven Is War" (1:46)
15. "Sing Along" (3:29)
16. "Line by Line" (3:26)

Samples

• "Roots of a Tree" samples the song "Kettle" by Frances
• "Trouble" samples the song "When We Were Wolves" by My Latest Novel
  My Latest Novel
  - Background :A four piece, , My Latest Novel are from the small town of Greenock, near Glasgow in Scotland. They augment the traditional rock line up of guitars, drums, bass and keyboards, with the use of violins, xylophones, samples and undulating percussion, as well as multi-part vocals...
  
  
• "The Barber" samples the song "Spin Me Around" by Kip Boardman
• "Big Mistake" samples the song "Kitty and Her Beautiful Lady" by Remate
• "Motorcade" samples the song "Black Holes" by Needle
• "Yesterday's Garden" samples the song "Whistle and Water" by East Ghost West Ghost
• "More Clothes" samples the song "Bubbles" by Trunk Federation
• "My Hands" samples the song "I Can't Fall Asleep" by Picastro
  Picastro
  Picastro is a sleep rock band from Toronto.Currently members include guitarist/vocalist Liz Hysen, cellist Nick Storring and drummer Brandon Valdivia...
  
  
• "Sing Along" samples the song "Poison" by Constantines
  Constantines
  -History:The band was formed by Steve Lambke, Bryan Webb, Doug MacGregor, and Dallas Wehrle in 1999, following the break-up of Webb and MacGregor's emotional hardcore band Shoulder...
  
  

Major Contributors

• Dr. Leisure: Tape sounds, singing, live show
• Rob Bedenoch: Engineering, audio tweaking
• Justin Riddle: Drums, percussion
• Shawna Enyart: Elephants
• Chris Lind: Slack key guitar
• Andy, Matt, and Anti
  ANTI-
  ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus has shifted over the last decade from mostly punk rock, nowadays ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from country , hip hop , reggae , Soul , folk , rap-rock , indie rock...
  
  : Business
• Jacob Harris: Management
• Dan Kinsley: Guitar, piano, mandolin
• Ryan Foregger: Video specialization
• Adam Gustavson: Guitar, banjo, pedal steel, bass
• Dan Saks: Guitar
• Merle Hansen: Viola
• Pepi Ginsberg: singing
• Shars Worden: singing, ghosting
• The Bloody Nose Boys: singing
• Danielle Stech Homsy: singing
• Dave Kutch: Mastering
• Tim Fite: Everything else and nothing else