Recado is the fourth album by 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...

 Vince Bell

Vince Bell

Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...

. It was released on May 8, 2007. According to Bell: "Recado is a collection of messages that wind like a long dirt road through the years of my writing. There's the first song I wrote after moving to Austin, written on a whore-house piano that writer-friendly Strait Music sold me for 150 bucks--delivered. There's one about taking chances in Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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 while I collaborated with Bob Neuwirth

Bob Neuwirth

Bob Neuwirth is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. A mainstay of the early 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts, folk scene, he subsequently became a friend and associate of Bob Dylan alongside whom he appears in D.A...

 on my first album, Phoenix

Phoenix (Vince Bell album)

Phoenix is the first album by the singer-songwriter Vince Bell and was released on July 16, 1994, almost twelve years after Bell was broadsided by a drunk driver, leaving him with a severe traumatic head injury, broken ribs, multiple lacerations to his liver, and a mangled right forearm...

. Two are from the high desert south of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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 where you can see for a hundred miles. I also chose a masterful one from Townes

Townes Van Zandt

John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...

. Altogether they portray at least a couple of lifetimes of lyric like I like it, with music that says the same thing."

Track listing

1. "Isla"
2. "Give Chance a Chance"
3. "Where the Late Night Crowd Is Led"
4. "Ranch Land"
5. "Done That Too"
6. "Gypsy"
7. "Caribbe"
8. "Labor of Love"
9. "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold"
10. "Even Cowboys Get the Blues"
11. "Goodnight Lullaby"

Song Credits

• "Isla," "Ranch Land," "Done That Too," "Gypsy": Vince Bell, Vince Bell Publishing (SESAC), administered by Bug Music
• "Give Chance a Chance," "Caribbe": Vince Bell, Bug Music (BMI)/Vince Bell Publishing (SESAC), administered by Bug Music
• "Where the Late Night Crowd is Led," "Labor of Love," "Even Cowboys Get the Blues," "Goodnight Lullaby": Vince Bell, Bug Music (BMI)/Black Coffee Music (BMI), administered by Bug Music
• "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold": Townes Van Zandt
  Townes Van Zandt
  John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...
  
  , TVZ Music (ASCAP)/Katie Belle Music (ASCAP)/Will Van Zandt Publishing (ASCAP), administered by Bug Music

Album Facts

• Because "message," the English translation of the album's title, appeared on the back cover of the CD, the album was sometimes mistakenly identified in reviews as Message.

Personnel

• Vince Bell
  Vince Bell
  Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...
  
   -Pawless v2 model mesquite dreadnought acoustic guitar and vocals
• Bill Browder - piano and acoustic guitar
• Cam King - electric guitar, electric bass, keyboards, autoharp, harmonica, percussion
• Freddie Steady Krc - percussion
• Tammy Rogers - fiddle and mandolin
• Michael Woody - mandolin

Production

• Producer: Cam King
• Executive producers: Sarah Wrightson and Vince Bell
• Mixing and mastering: Cam "El Mixador" King and Layton DePenning at Elmo's Lab, Manchaca, Texas
• Recording locations: The Real Deal, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Santa Fe, New Mexico
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  ; DynaMike Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
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  ; Bowie Street Recorders, Fredericksburg, Texas; Elmo's Lab, Manchaca, Texas; SteadyGo Recording, Austin, Texas
  Austin, Texas
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External links

• Vince Bell official site
• Vince Bell's MySpace page
• Daryn Kagan profiles Vince Bell
• Vince Bell's artist bio at the H.A.A.M. (Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians) website
• “Introducing the Vince Bell "Handmade Hardtop Acoustic Dreadnaught Line”: lutier Vince Pawless describes custom-making a guitar for Vince Bell
• Elmo's Lab Recording Studio