Reception

Writing for Allmusic, Thom Jurek gave the album three and a half stars out of five. He said that it "won't set the charts on fire" but called it "a mature mark from an under-the-radar artist". He cited the track "Fall Like Margarite" as a highlight, calling it "simply gorgeous." Ronni Radner of Out

Out (magazine)

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called the album "an impressive set of thoughtfully crafted songs" and said that it "pays a definite homage to [...] trailblazing femme troubadours" like Bonnie Raitt, Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...

 and Carole King

Carole King

Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...

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Track listing

1. "Red Dress" (Richey, Sharp) – 4:02
2. "Something Wild" (Dulaney, Sharp) – 3:57
3. "A Home" (Sharp, Sharp) – 4:37
4. "The Reminder" (Fisher, Sharp) – 3:56
5. "Regular Jane" (Majors, Sharp) – 3:37
6. "Flood" (Robin, Sharp) – 2:30
7. "Kinder Blues" (Addison, Sharp) – 5:06
8. "Firefly" (Poltz, Sharp) – 3:19
9. "Wisdom" (Crowley, Sharp) – 3:21
10. "Fall Like Margarite" (Middleman, Sharp) – 2:50
11. "Come Back to Me" (Batteau, Sharp) – 4:09
12. "Fine Upstanding Citizen" (Coppola, Rowe, Sharp) – 2:18

Personnel

Music

• Mark Addison – bass, mandolin, piano, electric guitar, melodica, Indian banjo
• David Batteau
  David Batteau
  David Batteau is an American singer-songwriter. Batteau is the son of Blanca Batteau and Dr. Dwight Wayne Batteau, of Harvard University and Tufts University. He is the brother of singer/songwriter Robin Batteau.-History:...
  
   – acoustic guitar
• Chris Carmichael
  Chris Carmichael (musician)
  Chris Carmichael is a musician and arranger born in San Antonio, Texas on July 6, 1962. The son of an Air Force fighter pilot, Chris moved extensively before taking up the violin while living in Hampton, Virginia...
  
   – violin, viola
• Andy Georges – acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, electric guitar
• Mickey Grimm – percussion, drums
• David Henry – cello
• Brad Jones
  Brad Jones (musician)
  Brad Jones is a Power pop music producer, and singer/songwriter. He has produced music for Cotton Mather, Matthew Sweet, Imperial Drag, Jill Sobule, and Marshall Crenshaw-Gilt-Flake:Label: Ginger Records Release: June 6, 2000Tracks:*The Blunderbuss...
  
   – organ, acoustic guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, bass guitar, harmonium, timpani, vibraphone, nylon string guitar
• Richard Julian – backing vocals
• Will Kimbrough
  Will Kimbrough
  Will Kimbrough born in Mobile, Alabama in 1964 is an American Singer-Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.-Biography:...
  
   – percussion, electric guitar, backing vocals
• Ronnie Manaog – percussion, drums, tambourine, shaker
• Greg Morrow – drums
• Kim Richey
  Kim Richey
  Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category, her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts...
  
   – backing vocals
• Janet Robin
  Janet Robin
  -Career:Robin began her career as the youngest and only female guitar student of Randy Rhoads. She started performing professionally as a teenager in the mid-80's playing guitar in the all-female hard rock band Precious Metal . After Precious Metal broke up, Robin took studio work as a session...
  
   – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Joshua Segal – violin, viola
• Maia Sharp – acoustic guitar, clarinet, flute, electric guitar, piano, saxophone, djembe, vocals
• Randy Sharp – acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals, bass harmonica
• Nina Singh – percussion, drums
• Jill Sobule
  Jill Sobule
  Jill Sobule is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless...
  
   – voices
• Josef Zimmerman – bass, bass guitar

Production

• Mark Addison – producer, sampling, loop
• Tom Briggs – creative director
• Jeff Chenault – creative director
• Jim DeMain – mastering
• Jeremy Ferguson – engineer
• Andy Georges – sampling
• Brad Jones – producer, engineer, sampling, mixing, audio production
• Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
   – author
• Maia Sharp – producer, engineer, audio production
• Randy Sharp – producer, engineer, sampling

Design

• Jeff Chenault – art direction, design
• Donna Gast – make-up, hair stylist
• Zoe Joeright – stylist
• Mitch Tobias – photography, composite