Track listing

1. "Fireroad (for Two)" – 3:26
2. "Soft Dangerous Shores" – 4:10
3. "As Day is Long" – 3:30
4. "Valley of the Innocents" – 3:28
5. "City of Women" – 6:36
6. "Times Square Machine (N.Y.C. February 1991)" – 0:54
7. "Her Furious Angels" – 3:11
8. "Last Million Miles" – 4:21
9. "Medicine Wheel" – 4:33
10. "End Game Holiday" – 4:22
11. "Breath of Shadows" – 3:53
12. [unnamed] – 0:18

Trivia

• Soft Dangerous Shores was the first time Whitley and Burn had worked together since Living with the Law
  Living with the Law (album)
  Living with the Law is the debut album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley.Malcolm Burn produced, mixed and played on the album...
  
  (1991).

• The album title was inspired by 'The Writings Depart', a poem by André Breton
  André Breton
  André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....
  
  .

• "Valley of the Innocents" refers to residents of the Elbe River Valley
  Dresden Elbe Valley
  The Dresden Elbe Valley is a former World Heritage Site in Dresden, Germany. The valley, extending for some 20 kilometres and passingthrough the Dresden Basin and the city of Dresden, is one of two cultural landscapes along the Central European river Elbe...
  
   in Dresden
  Dresden
  Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
  
  , Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  , whose freedom from media-saturated sophistication was lost with the fall of the Iron Curtain
  Revolutions of 1989
  The Revolutions of 1989 were the revolutions which overthrew the communist regimes in various Central and Eastern European countries.The events began in Poland in 1989, and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and...
  
  .

• "Her Furious Angels" is a re-interpreting of the song originally found on War Crime Blues
  War Crime Blues
  War Crime Blues is the eleventh album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his ninth studio album.It was produced by Whitley. The album was recorded by Edgar M...
  
  (2004).

Personnel

• Chris Whitley – 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...
  
  , guitars, and banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  
• Heiko Schramm – bass guitars
• Matthias Macht – drums
  Drum kit
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   and percussion
• Malcolm Burn
  Malcolm Burn
  Malcolm Burn is a Canadian-born music producer, recording engineer and musician. In 2001, he won a Grammy Award with Jim Watts and Emmylou Harris for his work on Harris's Red Dirt Girl. -Biography:...
  
   - keyboards, programming
  Programming (music)
  Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
  
  , and processing

Additional personnel

• Trixie Whitley - vocals on 9
• Dan Whitley – guitar on 1 and 2
• Aaron Comess - drums on 8