''Fair Ain't Fair'' is

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's second studio album released on

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. As with '' Gone Ain't Gone'', Fite created this album with a mixture of real instrumentation and sampling, resulting in a sound composed of

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and hip hop elements.

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, of

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, listed the album among his favourite albums of 2008.

Track listing

All songs written by T. Sullivan, except "Harriet Tubman" (T. Sullivan/C. Lind) #"Roots of a Tree" (1:54) #"Trouble" (3:26) #"The Barber" (3:25) #"Big Mistake" (3:28) #"Inside Man" (2:02) #"Rats and Rags" (3:25) #"Yesterday's Garden" (3:14) #"Thought I Was a Gun" (2:03) #"The Names of All the Animals" (4:24) #"Motorcade" (1:37) #"More Clothes" (3:28) #"Harriet Tubman" (1:36) #"My Hands" (4:00) #"Heaven Is War" (1:46) #"Sing Along" (3:29) #"Line by Line" (3:26)

Samples

*"Roots of a Tree" samples the song "Kettle" by

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*"Trouble" samples the song "When We Were Wolves" by

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*"The Barber" samples the song "Spin Me Around" by Kip Boardman *"Big Mistake" samples the song "Kitty and Her Beautiful Lady" by Remate *"Motorcade" samples the song "Black Holes" by Needle *"Yesterday's Garden" samples the song "Whistle and Water" by East Ghost West Ghost *"More Clothes" samples the song "Bubbles" by Trunk Federation *"My Hands" samples the song "I Can't Fall Asleep" by Picastro *"Sing Along" samples the song "Poison" by

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Major contributors

*Dr. Leisure – Tape sounds, singing, live show *Rob Bedenoch – Engineering, audio tweaking *Justin Riddle – Drums, percussion *Shawna Enyart – Elephants *Chris Lind – Slack key guitar *Andy, Matt, and

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– Business *Jacob Harris – Management *Dan Kinsley – Guitar, piano, mandolin *Ryan Foregger – Video specialization *Adam Gustavson – Guitar, banjo, pedal steel, bass * Dan Saks – Guitar *Merle Hansen – Viola *Pepi Ginsberg – singing *Shars Worden – singing, ghosting *The Bloody Nose Boys – singing *Danielle Stech Homsy – singing *Dave Kutch – Mastering *Tim Fite – Everything else and nothing else

References

External links

Fair Ain't Fair on ANTI- Records' website
2008 albums Tim Fite albums Anti- (record label) albums {{2008-hiphop-album-stub