''Donna Jean and the Tricksters'' is an album by Donna Jean and the Tricksters, a rock band led by former

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singer

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. The group, which later changed its name to the

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, also features lead guitarist and singer

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, who wrote or co-wrote several songs on the album, along with other members of the

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. ''Donna Jean and the Tricksters'' was released by Dig Records in 2008.

Track listing

# "All I Gotta Say" (

) – 4:59 # "So Hard" (Dave Diamond) – 5:49 # "No Better Way" (Will McFarlane) – 4:34 # "Weight of the World" (Dave Diamond) – 5:26 # "Shelter" (Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay,

) – 5:38 # "Travelin' Light" (Jeff Mattson, M. Marston) – 7:07 # "He Said/She Said" (Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Jeff Mattson) – 5:14 # "Moments Away" (Tom Circosta) – 4:27 # "Farewell Jack" (

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, Brian Godchaux) – 4:22 # "A Prisoner Says His Piece" (Jeff Mattson) – 6:57 # "Me and Kettle Joe" (Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay) – 13:24 # "Reno" (Klyph Black, John Edward McNeill) – 4:00

Credits

Donna Jean and the Tricksters

* Klyph Black –

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 ...

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 ...

* Tom Circosta –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

, vocals * Dave Diamond –

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 ...

, vocals *

– vocals * Wendy Lanter – vocals *

–

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

, vocals * Mookie Siegel –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

, vocals

Additional musicians

* Jason Crosby –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

on "He Said/She Said" and "A Prisoner Says His Piece" * Dave Eggar –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

on "Shelter" and "He Said/She Said" * Randi Mattson – handclaps on "Shelter"

Production

* Donna Jean and the Tricksters – producer * James Brooks – executive producer * Joe Napoli – recording * Tim Stiegler – additional engineering * Jason Corsaro – mixing * Michael Ferretti and Dante Portella – assistant engineers * Chris Gehringer – mastering * Gary Houston – cover art and layout * Susana Millman – photography * Dennis McNally – publicity, management Donna Jean and the Tricksters Overview ''allmusic.com'', Retrieved May 20, 2008.

References

{{Authority control Donna Jean Godchaux albums 2008 albums