''Downhauler'' is the fifth studio release by

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–based singer-songwriter

Marc Douglas Berardo Marc Douglas Berardo is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Port Chester, New York, and raised in Rye, New York. He currently resides in Westerly, Rhode Island. Berardo's songwriting has been compared to that of John Prine, James ...

. All songs were written by Berardo with the exception of Quiet Places which was co-written with Abbie Gardner, Laurie McCallister and Carolann Solebello of

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. Downhauler was ranked No. 20 on the Folk DJ-L radio list of Top Albums and Songs of 2011. In the review of the album, Roger Zee of WorkingMusician.com had this to say, "These songs examine the dreams and hopes that motivate us all."

Track listing

# "Ruby" # "Something Real (Neal and Jenny)" # "Smokegun Jack Daydreams" # "Cuba 1953" # "Havana" # "Better Days" # "Everything Will Be Alright" # "Ruby Reprise" # "Passing Through" # "Quiet Places" With

# "Thinking It Over"

Personnel

Musicians

* Marc Douglas Berardo –

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 ...

, background vocals, acoustic guitar, nylon classical guitar, percussion * Dick Neal – electric guitars,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

* Paulie Triff – drums, percussion * Scott LeBish – drums * Arturo Baguer – bass, Cuban bass * Jordan Jancz – bass * Larry Deming – violin, harmonium * Liam Bailey –

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

s * Chris Berardo – vocals, harmonica,

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, background vocals,

harmony vocals Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical chora ...

* Vic Steffans –

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

keys Key or The Key may refer to: Common meanings * Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptography algorithm * Key (lock), device used to control access to places or facilities restricted by a lock * Key (map ...

, keyboard,

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

B-3, drums * Laurie McCallister – vocals,

* Carolann Solebello – vocals * Abbie Gardner –

Dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

, vocals * Pete Szymanksi – bass * Jim Kimball –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

Production

*Produced by: Dick Neal and Marc Douglas Berardo *Engineered by: Dick Neal and Vic Steffens *Mixed by: Dick Neal and Vic Steffens *Mastered by: Vic Steffens at Horizon Studio, West Haven, Connecticut March 2010

Artwork

*Photography: Kim Mitchell *Graphic Design and Layout: Marc Douglas Berardo and Chris Brown

References

{{Authority control 2011 albums Marc Douglas Berardo albums