Amen (Paula Cole Album)
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''Amen.'' is the third
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Paula Cole Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel's 1993–1994 Secret World Tour, she released her first album, ''Harbinger (Paula Cole album), Harbing ...
. It is officially credited to "The Paula Cole Band." The album was stylistically a major departure from Cole's previous album, '' This Fire'', and was met with mixed reviews. Commercially, the album failed to match the success of ''This Fire'', peaking at #92 on the Billboard 200 chart, and selling 116,000 copies to date. The album ''did'', however, score a moderate
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radio format peaked at #18 on the
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, and also attained moderate airplay.


Track listing


Personnel

* Jamshied Sharifi – arranger, orchestra and string quartet conductor *
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– bass, electric upright bass,
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* Alfredo Hidrovo – bongos, shaker *
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– drums, tambourine, snare oy shaker, hihat dditional* Kevin Barry – electric guitar ah acoustic guitar, e-bow, electric sitar guitar, baritone guitar, Moog guitar], Fillanoma guitar, mandolin, acoustic slide guitar * Paula Cole – electric piano
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bass
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synthesizer
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piano, bass uno electric guitar ow-tuned Clavinet, ahclarinet, finger snaps, vocals * Susan Jolles – harp *
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– scratches *
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– pedal steel guitar * Tionne "T-Boz" Wattkins – backing vocals


References

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