''Adam's Rib'' is the second album by Juno-Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter

Melanie Doane Melanie Doane is a Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and music educator. Early years Daughter of J. Chalmers Doane, a music educator and member of the Order of Canada, Doane learned many instruments at a young age, including piano, bass gui ...

. It was first released on September 28, 1998, in Canada on

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, and subsequently on

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on August 24, 1999, in the United States. The album was produced by Rick Neigher.

Track listing

# "Adam's Rib" (Melanie Doane, Rick Neigher) – 3:37 # "Happy Homemaker" (Melanie Doane, Rick Neigher) – 3:51 # "There Is No Beautiful" (Melanie Doane, Rick Neigher) – 3:37 # "Absolutely Happy" (Melanie Doane, David Martin) – 3:27 # "Goliath" (Melanie Doane, Rick Neigher) – 3:51 # "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (Melanie Doane, Kevin Fox) – 3:56 # "Waiting for the Tide" (Melanie Doane, Rick Neigher) – 4:09 # "How You Cried" (Melanie Doane) – 4:26 # "The Space Between Us" (Melanie Doane, Creighton Doane, Steve Mayoff) – 5:04 # "Mel's Rock Pile" (Traditional, Melanie Doane, Rick Neigher) – 3:27 # "Good Gifts" (Melanie Doane) – 3:04 # "Sweet Sorrow" (Melanie Doane, David Martin) – 4:04

Song placements

* Brothers and Sisters – "Good Gifts" *

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– "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" *

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– "Absolutely Happy", "Waiting For The Tide" * That's Life – "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" *

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Hawaii – "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" *

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– "Absolutely Happy", "Waiting For The Tide", "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "How You Cried", "Good Gifts"

Personnel

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on the CD and from the album review on

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– vocals,

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, violin, piano, bass, programming,

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

, loops, main performer, arranger * Rick Neigher – acoustic guitar, bass, arranger, electric guitar, background vocals, engineer, producer *

Tim Pierce Tim Pierce (born 1959 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and the C ...

– acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Boomerang guitar *

John Shanks John Matthew Shanks (born December 18, 1964) is an American songwriter, record producer and guitarist. Early life and education John Matthew Shanks was born in New York City. Shanks moved to Los Angeles when he was 17 years old. He was in a ban ...

– acoustic guitar, electric guitar,

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, bass *

Tommy Emmanuel William Thomas Emmanuel (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist. Regarded as one of the greatest acoustic guitarists of all time, he is known for his complex fingerstyle technique, energetic performances and use of percussive effects on ...

– acoustic guitar * Kevin Savigar – cello,

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piano,

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, keyboards,

Fender Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

* David Raven – drums * Alex Neigher – drums *

Debra Dobkin Debra Dobkin is an American vocalist, percussionist, music producer, and painter. Biography Early history Music and the fine arts have always played important roles in Dobkin's life. She was selected at age 6 for children's scholarship classe ...

– percussion * Howard Willing – assistant engineer * Kevin Breit – acoustic guitar * Jim Hanson – bass * Gail Marowitz –

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, design * Al Lay – assistant engineer * Michael Daks – photography *

Mike Roth Mike Roth, originally from Northampton, Massachusetts, is an A&R man, notable for discovering and developing numerous famous Canadian bands including Our Lady Peace, Chantal Kreviazuk, Amanda Marshall, The Philosopher Kings, Prozzäk, Junkhouse ...

– A&R * Greg Calbi – mastering * Marc DeSisto – engineer, mixing * Kevin Dean – assistant engineer * Erik Gloege – production coordination

Release history

References

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