Say It Is So is the fifth solo album by New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 singer/songwriter Tim Finn

Tim Finn

Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...

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After the release of Before & After Finn was left without a record company but with a lot of inspiration. He met producer Jay Joyce in Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

, TN in 1998 with whom he worked. The problem was that there was still no label willing to release Finn's work. In the end this album was released independently. Websites credit this album as having a 2000 release, but the first run of albums released through the Frenz of the Enz fanclub have a 1999 stamp, making this the original year of release.

Track listing

• All songs written by Tim Finn
  Tim Finn
  Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...
  
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1. "Underwater Mountain" – 3:56
2. "Shiver" (Marie Azcona, Finn) – 4:21
3. "Good Together" (Azcona, Finn) – 3:15
4. "Roadtrip" (Azcona, Finn) – 3:25
5. "Currents" – 3:50
6. "Need to Be Right" – 4:32
7. "Twinkle" (Azcona, Finn) – 3:30
8. "Big Wave Rider" – 3:20
9. "Death of a Popular Song" – 4:23
10. "Some Dumb Reason" – 3:03
11. "Rest" (Finn, George Upu, Traditional) – 4:39

In the track Some Dumb Reason there is the line "feeding the gods". This became the title of Tim's next album

Feeding The Gods

Feeding the Gods is the sixth solo album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn.After the release of Say It Is So Finn felt that he wanted to try something a bit "friskier" and more energetic...

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Personnel

• Tim Finn
  Tim Finn
  Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...
  
   - vocals, piano, acoustic guitar
• Jay Joyce - guitars, keyboards, sounds
• Chris Feinstein - bass
• Ken Coomer
  Ken Coomer
  Ken Coomer was the last drummer for the band Uncle Tupelo as well as the drummer for Chicago based-band Wilco until Yankee Hotel Foxtrot...
  
  - drums
• Giles Reaves - drums on Underwater Mountain, Shiver, Twinkle, Rest

Additional personnel

• Bruce Bouton - pedal steel
• Matt Johnson - drums on Currents
• Kalai Lam - ukulele, log drum, nose flute on Currents
• Laurence Maddy - guitar on Shiver
• Julie Miller - backing vocals
• Jackie Orsazky - second bass guitar & string arrangement on Underwater Mountain