''Burning the Daze'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter

Marc Cohn Marc Craig Cohn (; born July 5, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992. Cohn is best known for the song " Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album, which was a Top 40 ...

, released in 1998 on Atlantic Records. The album peaked at number 114 on the ''Billboard'' 200 Chart.

Track listing

All tracks written by Marc Cohn, except where noted.

Personnel

* Marc Cohn – lead vocals, acoustic guitar (1, 2, 3, 8, 11), percussion (1, 10), acoustic piano (4, 6, 7), backing vocals (4),

tack piano A tack piano (also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and junk piano) is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the ha ...

(5), guitar (5), slide guitar (9) *

John Leventhal John Leventhal (born December 18, 1952) is a musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for William Bell, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Sarah Jarosz, Rod ...

– keyboards (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10), guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10), bass (1, 2, 3, 7, 10), percussion (1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10), harmonica (1), electric guitar (2),

nylon string guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...

(2), tamboura (2), glockenspiel (3), organ (4), mandolin (5, 7), backing vocals (5), horn arrangements (6), acoustic piano (8),

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usua ...

(8), high string guitar (11) *

Malcolm Burn Malcolm Burn (born October 4, 1960) is a Canadian-born music producer, recording engineer and musician. Emmylou Harris's ''Red Dirt Girl'', produced by Burn, won Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 2001 Grammys. Biography Born in Cornwall, Ont ...

– organ (6), percussion (6), backing vocals (8) *

Tom "T-Bone" Wolk Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (December 24, 1951 – February 28, 2010) was an American musician and bassist for the music duo Daryl Hall & John Oates and a member of the ''Saturday Night Live'' house band. Life and career Wolk was born and raised in Y ...

– accordion (9),

cittern The cittern or cithren ( Fr. ''cistre'', It. ''cetra'', Ger. ''Cister,'' Sp. ''cistro, cedra, cítola'') is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is d ...

(9), bass (9) *

Jon Brion Jon Brion is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has ...

–

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. Th ...

(11) * Bill Dillon – guitar (6) *

Larry Campbell Larry W. Campbell (born 28 February 1948) is a Canadian politician that served as the 37th mayor of Vancouver, Canada from 2002 until 2005 and since 2005 has been a member of the Senate of Canada. Before he was mayor, Campbell worked for th ...

– acoustic guitar (11) *

Mark Plati Mark Plati is a New York–based musician, record producer, and songwriter, best known for his work in the 1990s with David Bowie. Plati also has worked with Spookey Ruben, The Cure, Duncan Sheik, Hooverphonic, Robbie Williams, Joe McIntyre, D ...

– bass (4, 5, 8) * Toby Myers – bass (6) *

Shawn Pelton Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and percussionist. He has recorded with a wide range of artists and has been a first call player since moving to New York in the late 1980s. Shawn has recorded with artists such as Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, ...

– drums (1-5, 7, 9), percussion (4) * Aaron Comess – drums (6) *

Brady Blade Brady L Blade Jr. (born 1965 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American rock, pop and country drummer, record producer and composer, who currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the son of Dorothy and Pastor Brady Blade Sr. (Pastor of ...

– drums (8) *

Rodney Crowell Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album '' Diamonds & Dirt''. ...

– handclaps (5) * Rick Depofi – tenor saxophone (1, 6),

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

(3), handclaps (5) * Larry Farrell – trombone (6) *

Chris Botti Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an award-winning American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album ''Impressions''. He was also nominated in ...

– trumpet (1), flugelhorn (7) * Peter Gordon –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(9) *

Jane Scarpantoni Jane Scarpantoni (born 1960)https://www.myheritage.com/names/jane_scarpantoni is a classically trained American cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums. She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-1 ...

– cello (11) *

Patty Griffin Patricia Jean Griffin (born March 16, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.Griffin, Patrici She is a vocalist and plays guitar and piano. She is known for her stripped-down songwriting style in the folk music genre. Her songs ha ...

– harmony vocals (1, 4), backing vocals (3) * Catherine Russell – backing vocals (3) * Martin Sexton – harmony vocals (3) * Frank Floyd – backing vocals (4) * Curtis King, Jr. – backing vocals (4) *

Kenny White Kenny White is a New York City–based singer-songwriter, studio musician, and writer. For many years, White was a fixture in the NY studio scene, writing and producing hundreds of commercials for TV and radio. In this capacity, he worked with ...

– backing vocals (4), percussion (9) *

Rosanne Cash Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife. Although she is often classified as a country art ...

– harmony vocals (7) * Darryl Johnson – backing vocals (8)

Production

* Marc Cohn – producer (all tracks), engineer * John Leventhal – producer (1-8, 10), engineer, mixing * Paul Samwell-Smith – producer (4, 9) * Malcolm Burn – producer (6, 8), engineer * Rick Depofi – engineer, assistant engineer *

Frank Filipetti Frank Filipetti is an American record producer, audio engineer and mixer, who was born in Bristol, Connecticut, United States. Filipetti has seven Grammy Awards and ten nominations for his work on ''The Color Purple'', ''The Book of Mormon'', ''W ...

– engineer, mixing * Mark Plati – engineer, mixing *

Bob Clearmountain Bob Clearmountain (born January 15, 1953) is an American recording engineer, mixer and record producer. He has worked with many major acts, including Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Toto (band), Toto, Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams, with whom he ...

– mixing * Kevin Killen – mixing * Craig Bishop – assistant engineer * Dante de Sole – assistant engineer, mix assistant * Suzanne Dyer – engineer, assistant engineer * Ken Feldman – assistant engineer * Scott Gormley – assistant engineer * Matt Knobel – assistant engineer * John Bleich – mix assistant * Jim Caruana – mix assistant * Ryoji Hata – mix assistant * James Saez – mix assistant * Chris Theis – mix assistant * Bob Ludwig – mastering * Thomas Bricker – art direction, design * Viktor Koen – illustrations * Cynthia Levine – photography * Frank Ockenfels – photography

References

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