When I Woke is the second album and major-label debut of the American world

World music

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 rock

Rock music

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 band, Rusted Root

Rusted Root

Rusted Root is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for their unique fusion of acoustic, rock, world and other styles of music, with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, Native American, and Indian influences...

. It has since been certified Platinum in the United States.

Track listing

All songs written by Michael Glabicki and Rusted Root except where noted.

1. "Drum Trip" – 3:45
2. "Ecstasy" – 5:02
3. "Send Me on My Way" – 4:23
4. "Cruel Sun" – 8:00
5. "Cat Turned Blue" (Glabicki, Wertz) – 3:43
6. "Beautiful People" – 4:10
7. "Martyr" – 4:26
8. "Rain" – 3:43
9. "Food & Creative Love" – 4:13
10. "Lost in a Crowd" – 4:01
11. "Laugh as the Sun" – 5:59
12. "Infinite Tamboura" – 1:53
13. "Back to the Earth" (Bunyak, Glabicki, Wertz) – 5:27

Success of "Send Me on My Way"

The third track, "Send Me on My Way", was the most commercially popular single released by the band. The song hit #72 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 in 1995. It has since maintained wide recognition through its frequent use in motion picture soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

s, and in other media, including:

• Ban Cuss (1995)
• Two Guys Talkin' About Girls (video) [a.k.a. At First Sight] (1995)
• Matilda
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  (1996)
• Pie in the Sky
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  (1996)
• Race the Sun
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  (1996)
• The Theory of Flight
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  (1998)
• Ice Age
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  (2002)
• Standing Still (2005)
• YTV Canada's Are We There Yet?: World Adventure
• The theme song of the successful Israeli sitcom Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol
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  .
• Chuck
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  (2011)
• Featured song in campaign for Enterprise Rent-A-Car
  Enterprise Rent-A-Car
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   (2011)
• Ice Age: Continental Drift
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  (2012)

NASA engineers also chose the song as "wake-up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21.