The Woman's Boat is the third album by the American

United States

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 singer/songwriter Toni Childs

Toni Childs

Toni Childs is an American singer-songwriter from Orange, California. She has released four studio albums and is best known for her songs "Don't Walk Away" , "I've Got To Go Now", a Top 5 hit in Australia in 1991, and the Emmy-winning "Because You're Beautiful" Toni Childs (born October 29, 1957)...

. Released in 1994, it was Childs' first and only album for the Geffen Records

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 label and would be her last studio album for fourteen years.

The album was not a commercial success and failed to chart, although the single "Lay Down Your Pain" reached #13 on the U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart in January 1995 and also earned Childs a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

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Track listing

1. "Womb" 4:49
2. "Welcome to the World" 6:15
3. "Predator" 6:46
4. "I Just Want Affection" 5:58
5. "I Met a Man" 4:44
6. "The Woman's Boat" 5:04
7. "Wild Bride" 4:02
8. "Sacrifice" 5:16
9. "Lay Down Your Pain" 6:10
10. "Long Time Coming" 4:33
11. "Death" 10:27

Personnel

• Toni Childs - vocals, synthesizer
• Sultan Khan - sarangui
• Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn
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   - stick
• Ron Aslan - programming, engineer
• Caroline Dale - cello
• Robert Fripp
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   - guitar
• Lee Harris - percussion
• Sabine Kabongo - voices
• Peter McKinney - drums
• David Rhodes - guitar
• Carol Rowley - voices
• Jimmy Smyth - synthesizer, bass, guitar, piano
• Kate St. John - cor Anglais
• Martin Tillman - cello
• Dinesh - tabla, voices), Eric Flickinger
• Ben Findlay - voices
• Kirsty Allen - voices
• Jules Brooks - programming
• Ron Reeves - didjerid