''Careful Confessions'' is the 2004 independently produced debut studio album by

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. In addition to seven studio tracks, the album features four songs recorded during live performances. Several of the songs on the album were re-recorded to appear on Bareilles' second album, '' Little Voice,'' her major label debut. The album was recorded and mixed at Asylum Recording Studios in

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, over roughly a one-month period in 2003. Bareilles produced alongside college friend Gabriel Mann, prolific singer/songwriter, music producer, television and video game music composer, and member of Los Angeles alternative rock band

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. Mann had produced two albums for Awaken, the college a cappella group Bareilles sang in while attending

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. After Bareilles was signed to

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in 2005 and the success of her second and major-label debut '' Little Voice'' in 2007, ''Careful Confessions'' was reissued in early 2008.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Sara Bareilles; track 3 additional composition by Javier Dunn

Personnel

*Sara Bareilles –

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 keyboa ...

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 without ...

*Josh Day –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

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. Exc ...

(tracks 1-7, 11) *Travis Carlton – bass (tracks 1-8, 11) *Javier Dunn –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*Mona Tavakoli - drums, background vocals (tracks 8-10) *Chaska Potter - background vocals (tracks 8-10) *Josh Archibec - bass (tracks 9, 10)

References

Sara Bareilles albums 2004 debut albums {{2000s-pop-album-stub