Release is Sister Hazel

Sister Hazel

Sister Hazel are an alternative rock band from Gainesville, Florida, whose style also blends elements of folk rock, pop, classic rock 'n' roll and southern rock. Their music is characterized by highly melodic tunes and generally optimistic lyrics. The band's instrumentation often features abrupt...

's seventh studio album. It was released on August 18, 2009 through Croakin' Poets/Rock Ridge.

Unlike previous Sister Hazel albums, all of the band members contributed to the songwriting. According to Ryan Newell, the album got its name because they "Took a different approach on this record and 'released' the past method."

Track listing

1. "Release" (Emerson Hart
   Emerson Hart
   Emerson Hart is a songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and producer. He grew up in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.-Biography:Emerson Hart is the lead singer and songwriter of the alternative rock band Tonic...
   
   , Pat McGee
   Pat McGee (musician)
   Pat McGee is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Annandale, Virginia, and is a founding member and frontman of the Pat McGee Band.-Biography:...
   
   , Ryan Newell) - 3:51
2. "Take A Bow" (Mike Daly, McGee, Newell) - 3:00
3. "I Believe In You" (Andrew Copeland
   Andrew Copeland
   Drew Copeland is a member of the band Sister Hazel. He plays baritone, rhythm and acoustic guitar, and sings lead and background vocals for the band. He also originally played harmonica...
   
   , Stan Lynch) - 2:51
4. "Run For The Hills" (Copeland, Britton Cameron) - 3:41
5. "Better Way" (Ken Kelly, Lindsey Kelly, Mark Trojanowski) - 3:56
6. "Walls And Cannonballs" (Ken Block) - 3:14
7. "Vacation Rain" (Jett Beres) - 3:51
8. "See Me Beautiful" (Block) - 4:06
9. "One Life" (Cameron, Copeland, Lynch) - 5:13
10. "Take It Back" (Kelly, Kelly, Trojanowski) - 3:49
11. "Fade" (Newell, Chuck Carrier) - 3:29
12. "Ghost In The Crowd" (Beres) - 5:07

Personnel

• Ken Block - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  Steel-string acoustic guitar
  A steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...
  
  
• Jett Beres - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , harmony vocals
• Andrew Copeland
  Andrew Copeland
  Drew Copeland is a member of the band Sister Hazel. He plays baritone, rhythm and acoustic guitar, and sings lead and background vocals for the band. He also originally played harmonica...
  
   - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Ryan Newell - lead
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
   and slide
  Slide guitar
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
  
   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...
  
  , harmony vocals
• Mark Trojanowski - 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 ....