Field Trip is an album by The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath (band)

The Grapes of Wrath are a Canadian folk rock band, who were one of Canada's most successful pop bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s before disbanding in 1992. With the band name tied up in litigation, most of the band continued to record through the 1990s as Ginger. The Grapes of Wrath briefly...

, released in 2000. The album marked the reunion of Kevin Kane

Kevin Kane

Not to be confused with the drummer for the band Bad City.Kevin Kane is a Canadian songwriter, musician, and record producer.He was a founding member of The Grapes of Wrath in 1983, but was ejected from that band in 1992...

 and Tom Hooper as songwriting partners and bandmates for the first time since 1991's These Days

These Days (Grapes of Wrath album)

These Days was a 1991 album by The Grapes of Wrath.Produced by John Leckie, the album found the band attempting to expand their traditional folk rock sound in a more guitar-heavy alternative rock direction....

, although they were the only two original band members to appear on the album. Session musicians filled in the remaining slots left by departing members Chris Hooper and Vincent Jones, including Pete Bourne on drums and Dave Genn on keyboards.

The album was also packaged with a bonus disc comprising new renditions of several of the band's older songs. Matt Brain drums on the bonus disc.

A video was released for the song "Black Eye".

After the tour for this album, Hooper and Kane said that they, "...had taken the reunion as far as they could take it" and decided to part ways. No further albums have been released under the Grapes of Wrath name, though the group once again reunited for live dates in 2010.

Track listing

1. Black Eye (Kane)
2. Like a Fool (Hooper/Little)
3. 18 (Kane)
4. Sell the Goat (Hooper)
5. Rivers Flow (Kane)
6. Hitchhiker (Hooper)
7. Dropping the Y (Kane)
8. Head in My Hands (Hooper)
9. Jack's Dilemma (Kane/Collins/Kravec)
10. Begin Communication (Hooper/Little)
11. But Oh Well (Kane)
12. Still Confused (Hooper)

Bonus Disc ("Extended Field Trip")

This disc was recorded June 12-16, 2000 in Vancouver. Tracks 1-4 are new acoustic versions of Grapes of Wrath hit singles. Note that the author credits as listed on this disc differ from the author credits as found on the original recordings.

Tracks 5 and 6 are cover versions of songs by The Monkees

The Monkees

The Monkees are an American pop rock group. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1966 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork,...

 and Albert Hammond

Albert Hammond

Albert Hammond OBE is a British singer, songwriter and record producer from Gibraltar.-Birth and early success:Hammond was born in London, England, where his family had been evacuated to from Gibraltar during World War II. His family returned to Gibraltar shortly after his birth, and there he grew...

, respectively.

1. Misunderstanding (Hooper/Kane/Hooper)
2. You May Be Right (Hooper/Jones/Hooper)
3. All the Things I Wasn't (Kane)
4. What Was Going Through My Head (Hooper/Jones/Hooper)
5. Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)
   Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)
   "Porpoise Song " is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and performed by pop/rock quartet The Monkees on their album Head. The song was released as a single in 1968, and reached #62 on the Billboard Hot 100....
   
   (Goffin/King)
6. Ninety Nine Miles from L.A. (Hammond)