''Farewell to Paradise'' (1973) is the fourth album by

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of "Tame the Lion", but at a slow tempo and chords from a

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. The initial pressings of this album were mispressed and featured the audio from the unreleased album by Toronto band Dixie Rumproast - Well Done. Many of them are still in circulation.

Track listing

All songs by

# "Warm Self Sacrifice" # "See No Evil" # "Drawn to You" # "Blue Horizon" # "Shoot the Moon" # "Only Lovers Decide" # "Trust Once More" # "Nights Are Lonely" # "Bad Man" # "In Desperate Need" # "Those That Die" # "Farewell to Paradise"

Personnel

*Emitt Rhodes - all instruments and voices *

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- mixdown engineer * Richard Dashut - assistant mixdown engineer

References

* ''Emitt Rhodes: Recorded at Home'', by Kevin Ryan, ''

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