''Fool's Parade'' is the fifth
solo album
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by
Peter Wolf
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Early life and education
Wolf was born Peter Walter Blankfield on March 7, 1946, in the Bronx ...
, released in 1998 (see
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*#Classical music, 1998 in classical music
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). The album was named one of the Essential Recordings of the '90s by ''
Rolling Stone
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The magazine was first known fo ...
s
Jann Wenner
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.
Track listing
#"Long Way Back Again" (
Will Jennings
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, Wolf) – 3:43
#"Turnin' Pages" (
Taylor Rhodes, Wolf) – 3:38
#"Anything at All" (Jennings, John L. Keller, Wolf) – 4:30
#"Pleasing to Me" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:36
#"The Cold Heart of the Stone" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:02
#"All Torn Up" (Rhodes, Wolf) – 4:13
#"Roomful of Angels" (Rhodes, Wolf) – 4:29
#"If You Wanna Be with Somebody" (
Steve Jordan, Wolf) – 4:01
#"I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy" (Darryl Carter,
Charles Hodges
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Ho ...
,
O. V. Wright) – 3:31
#"Ride Lonesome, Ride Hard" (Jennings, Wolf) – 4:05
#"Waiting on the Moon" (Jennings, Wolf) – 3:40
Personnel
* Peter Wolf – vocals, backing vocals (7, 10)
*
Leon Pendarvis – keyboards (1, 2, 8, 9, 10), backing vocals (10)
*
Kenny White – keyboards (1-6, 9, 11), guitars (8, 10), backing vocals (8, 10), bass (9)
*
Steve Jordan – keyboards (8), guitars (8), bass (8), drums (8)
*
Cornell Dupree
Cornell Luther Dupree (December 19, 1942 – May 8, 2011) was an American jazz fusion and Rhythm and blues, R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis, and Steve Gadd, appeared on ''L ...
– guitars (1, 9)
*
Duke Levine – guitars (1-6, 9, 10, 11), backing vocals (10)
*
Jeff Golub – guitars (2, 6, 11)
*
Taylor Rhodes – guitars (2, 7), backing vocals (2, 7)
*
Jimmy Vivino – guitars (6)
*
Johnny A. – guitars (10), backing vocals (10)
*
Will Lee – bass (1, 2, 10), backing vocals (10)
* John Conte – bass (3-7, 11)
*
Shawn Pelton – drums (1-5, 7, 10, 11), backing vocals (10)
* Tony Beard – drums (6, 9)
*
Bashiri Johnson
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– percussion (1-6, 8-11), backing vocals (10)
* Marco Vitali – violin (1, 11)
* The Uptown Horns (4, 6, 9)
** Crispin Cioe – saxophones
** Arno Hecht – saxophones
** Bob Funk – trombone
** Larry Etkin – trumpet
* Ada Dyer – backing vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10), vocals (4)
*
Robert White Johnson – backing vocals (2)
* Curtis King – backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
*
Vaneese Thomas – backing vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
* Teresa Williams – backing vocals (3)
*
Steve Conte – backing vocals (5), guitars (9)
Technical personnel
* Peter Wolf – producer
* Kenny White – producer
* Taylor Rhodes – producer (7), additional engineer
* Steve Jordan – producer (8), additional engineer
* Rob Eaton – engineer, mixing
* Dave Fisher – assistant engineer
* Karen Rome – assistant engineer
*
Ted Jensen
Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' '' Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''.
Early life ...
– mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
*
Bob Ludwig
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– mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, ME)
* Jayne Gradd – project coordinator
* Margery Greenspan – art direction
* Nancy Hodgins – photography
*
Ken Schles
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– photography
* Betty Bonney – business coordinator
* Mimi Fox – business coordinator
* Paul Sternburg – business coordinator
Notes
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Albums produced by Taylor Rhodes
Albums produced by Kenny White