''Bayleaf'' is the first studio album by American musician

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, best known as the guitarist for Pearl Jam. It was released on September 11, 2001, on Epic Records.

Overview

The album features ten songs written over a span of four to five years.Stout, Gene
"Gossard Picks Up the Mike on Solo Album"
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''. September 11, 2001. The album was recorded by Gossard over a -year period in

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and completed in 2001. Gossard worked with producer

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. Gossard sang lead vocals on seven out of the album's ten tracks, while guest vocalists Pete Droge and Ty Willman sang on the remaining three tracks. Gossard also contributed drums and piano to the album, as well as guitar, bass and vocals. Former Pearl Jam drummer

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contributed his drumming to two tracks, "Bore Me" and "Fits". The album was mixed by

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. The album's cover art was illustrated by Beth Haidle. The album's songs feature a mellow sound influenced by

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, and

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. The album charted at number 37 on ''Billboards

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chart. Greg Prato of

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said, "While not as strong as his output with

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, ''Bayleaf'' still has its moments."

Track listing

;Japanese bonus track ;Online bonus track

Personnel

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

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and acoustic guitars,

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, drums,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, conga,

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 us ...

;Additional musicians and production *

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– Nord Lead synthesizer *

– keyboards,

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, mixing * Edward Brooks at RFI CD Mastering – mastering *

– drums on "Bore Me" and "Fits" * Tony Coleman –

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

, percussion * Guy M. Davis – bass guitar, background vocals * Mike Dillon –

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

– background vocals,

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, Prophet 5 synthesizer, slide guitar, clavinet, mellotron, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, acoustic guitar,

production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stati ...

* Beth Haidle – artwork and

photo A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now crea ...

transfer * Paul Haidle – CD artwork * Brad Klausen –

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design' ...

and

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* Lance Mercer – photos * Mike Stone – drums * Ron Weinstein – piano, Hammond C3 organ * Ty Willman – lead vocals on "Cadillac", "Unhand Me", and "Fend It Off", background vocals * Steve Wilmans – engineering on "Hellbent"

Chart positions

References

2001 debut albums Epic Records albums Stone Gossard albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub