It's Heavy In Here
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It's Heavy in Here is the debut solo studio album
by American singer-songwriter
Eric Matthews. It was released by Sub Pop Records on September 26, 1995. A track from the album, "Fanfare", was released as a single in the UK only, but failed to chart.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by American singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Eric Matthews. It was released by Sub Pop Records on September 26, 1995. A track from the album, "Fanfare", was released as a single in the UK only, but failed to chart.
Track listing
Personnel
- Phil Baldino - clarinets on "Angels for Crime"
- Robin Baldino - violin on "Soul Nation Select Them", "Three-Cornered Moon" and "Poisons Will Pass Me"
- Karen Bryan - violin on "Soul Nation Select Them", "Three-Cornered Moon" and "Poisons Will Pass Me"
- Kim Burton - viola on "Three-Cornered Moon" and "Poisons Will Pass Me"
- Dennis Conti - tenor saxophone on "Three-Cornered Moon"
- Curtis Daily - string bass on "Three-Cornered Moon" and "Poisons Will Pass Me"
- Jason FalknerJason FalknerJason Falkner is an American pop and rock musician. Active since the late 1980s, he has performed with several bands. In addition to releasing several albums as a solo artist, he is a prolific session musician and producer who has contributed to dozens of other recordings by other bands and...
- electric guitar on "Fanfare", "Forging Plastic Pain", "Hop and Tickle", "Distant Mother Reality" and "Flight and Lion"; bass on "Fanfare", "Soul Nation Select Them", "Hop and Tickle", "Distant Mother Reality", "Flight and Lion" and "Sincere Sensation"; drums on "Soul Nation Select Them" and "Lust Takes Time"; acoustic guitar on "Distant Mother Reality"; piano on "Flight and Lion" - Steve Hanford - drums on "Angels for Crime", "Hop and Tickle", "Flight and Lion" and "Sincere Sensation"
- Wendy Karden - flutes on "Soul Nation Select Them"
- Tony Lash - drums on "Forging Plastic Pain"; tambourine on "Sincere Sensation"
- Eric Matthews - all vocals; electric guitar on "Fanfare", "Lust Takes Time" and "Distant Mother Reality"; acoustic guitar on "Soul Nation Select Them", "Angels for Crime", "Hop and Tickle", "Flight and Lion", "Sincere Sensation" and "Fanfare (reprise); piano on "Soul Nation Select Them" and "Fried Out Broken Girl"; trumpets on "Fanfare", "Fried Out Broken Girl" and "Three-Cornered Moon"; harpsichord on "Faith to Clay" and "Three-Cornered Moon"; bass on "Angels for Crime" and "Lust Takes Time"; organ on "Three-Cornered Moon" and "Poisons Will Pass Me"; tenor recorder on "Distant Mother Reality"; Hammond B-3 organ on "Sincere Sensation"; percussion on "Sincere Sensation"
- Wes Matthews - acoustic guitar on "Faith to Clay"
- Lori Presthus - cello on "Soul Nation Select Them", "Three-Cornered Moon" and "Poisons Will Pass Me"
- Karen Strand - oboe on "Soul Nation Select Them"
External links
- Wilonsky, RobertRobert WilonskyRobert Elliott Wilonsky is an American journalist and the former host of Higher Definition, an interview program on the cable television network HDNet.-Early life:Wilonsky was born in Dallas, Texas to Margaret and Herschel Wilonsky...
. "Who gives a Hootie? Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget" (Dallas Observer, December 28, 1995) - Athitakis, Mark. "The Lateness of the Hour" (Salon.com, September 4, 1997)
- Perry, Douglas. "Eric Matthews wants you (but only if it's the right way)" ("The Oregonian", January 16, 1908; includes photograph of Eric Matthews)