Fool's Parade
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Fool's Parade is the fifth solo album
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 by Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf is an American Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Rock and Roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983; and for a successful musical solo career to date with writing partner Will Jennings.- Life and career :Wolf was born in the Bronx, New York...

, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music
1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...

).

Track listing

  1. "Long Way Back Again" (Will Jennings
    Will Jennings
    Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...

    , Wolf) – 3:43
  2. "Turnin' Pages" (Taylor Rhodes, Wolf) – 3:38
  3. "Anything at All" (Jennings, J. Kellar, Wolf) – 4:30
  4. "Pleasing to Me" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:36
  5. "The Cold Heart of the Stone" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:02
  6. "All Torn Up" (Rhodes, Wolf) – 4:13
  7. "Roomful of Angels" (Rhodes, Wolf) – 4:29
  8. "If You Wanna Be With Somebody" (S. Jordan, Wolf) – 4:01
  9. "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy" (Darryl Carter, Charles Hodges, O.V. Wright
    O.V. Wright
    Overton Vertis "O. V." Wright was an American singer who is regarded as one of Southern soul's most authoritative and individual artists...

    ) – 3:31
  10. "Ride Lonesome, Ride Hard" (Jennings, Wolf) – 4:05
  11. "Waiting on the Moon" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:40

Personnel

  • Peter Wolf – 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...

    , background vocals
  • Johnny A.
    Johnny A.
    Johnny A. is an American guitarist/songwriter, born in Malden, Massachusetts.Growing up in Boston as a young child, he became interested in music, starting with drums at age six. Upon being exposed to The Beatles in 1964 , Johnny bought a $49 Lafayette Electronics guitar. In the late seventies, he...

     – 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...

    , electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Tony Beard – drums
    Drum kit
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  • Crispin Cioe – horn
  • John Conte – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , upright bass
  • Steve Conte
    Steve Conte
    Steve Conte is an American singer and rock musician and lead singer of the band The Contes, along with his brother John Conte, both formerly members of the band Crown Jewels. He is perhaps more popularly known for his collaborations with composer Yoko Kanno, as well as being former lead guitarist...

     – guitar
  • Cornell Dupree
    Cornell Dupree
    Cornell Luther Dupree was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis and Steve Gadd, appeared on David Letterman, and wrote a book on soul and blues guitar: Rhythm and Blues Guitar ISBN 0-634-00149-3...

     – guitar
  • Ada Dyer – vocals, background vocals
  • Laurence Etkin – horn
  • Bob Funk – horn
  • Jeff Golub
    Jeff Golub
    Jeff Golub is an American jazz guitarist.- Biography :Jeff Golub is a contemporary jazz guitarist with 11 solo albums and 3 CD's as the leader of the instrumental band "Avenue Blue"...

     – guitar
  • Arno Hecht – horn
  • Bashiri Johnson – percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Robert White Johnson – background vocals
  • Stanley Jordan
    Stanley Jordan
    Stanley Jordan is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and pianist, best known for his development of the tapping technique for the guitar....

     – guitar, keyboard
    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...

  • Curtis King – background vocals
  • Will Lee
    Will Lee (bassist)
    Will Lee aka William Franklin Lee IV is an American musician and bassist, best known for his work on the CBS television program The Late Show with David Letterman as part of the CBS Orchestra....

     – bass
  • Duke Levine – guitar
  • Shawn Pelton – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Leon Pendarvis – keyboard
  • Taylor Rhodes – background vocals
  • Vaneese Thomas – background vocals
  • Marco Vitali – violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

  • Jimmy Vivino – guitar
  • Kenny White – bass, keyboard, background vocals
  • Teresa Williams – background vocals

Production

  • Producers: Peter Wolf, Stanley Jordan, Taylor Rhodes, Kenny White
  • Engineers: Rob Eaton, Stanley Jordan, Taylor Rhodes
  • Assistant engineers: Dave Fisher, Karen Rome
  • Mixing: Rob Eaton
  • Mastering: Ted Jensen
    Ted Jensen
    Ted Jensen is an American recording engineer. Jensen is the chief mastering engineer at Sterling Sound. He started his career as a mastering engineer in 1976 and is currently the most active Mastering Engineer in the industry...

    , Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....

  • Art direction: Margery Greenspan
  • Photography: Nancy Hodgins, Ken Schles
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