Track listing

1. "The Three of Us" – 2:35
2. "Whipping Boy" (Darrow) – 5:31
3. "Breakin' Down" (Harper, Plunier) – 4:00
4. "Don't Take That Attitude to Your Grave" – 4:25
5. "Waiting on an Angel" – 3:53
6. "Mama's Got a Girlfriend Now" – 2:29
7. "Forever" – 3:23
8. "Like a King" – 4:18
9. "Pleasure and Pain" – 3:44
10. "Walk Away" – 3:49
11. "How Many Miles Must We March" – 3:07
12. "Welcome to the Cruel World" – 5:36
13. "I'll Rise" (Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
    
    , Harper) – 3:35
    • Contains the hidden track
      Hidden track
      In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
      
       "...By and By I'm Going to See the King"

Credits

• Ben Harper - 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...
  
  , multiple instruments
• Clyde Allen - background vocals
• Clarence Butler - background vocals
• Richard Cook - Uillean pipes
• Rock Deadrick - percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , 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 ....
  
  , background vocals
• Tom Freund
• Clabe Hangan - background vocals
• Jelani Jones - background vocals
• Suzie Katayama - cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Ken McDaniel - background vocals
• John McKnight - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  
• John Taylor - background vocals
• Kevin Williams - background vocals

Production

• Producers: Ben Harper, J.P. Plunier
• Associate producer: Jeff Gottlieb, Mikal Reid
• Engineer: Mikal Reid
• Assistant engineer: Bradley Cook
• Mixing: Mikal Reid
• Mastering: Eddy Schreyer
• Advisor: Ben Elder
• Art direction: Tom Dolan, J.P. Plunier
• Research: Ben Elder
• Photography: Jeff Gottlieb