''From the Mint Factory'' is the second studio album by American R&B band

Mint Condition Mint condition is an expression used to denote the quality of a pre-owned good as displaying virtually no imperfections and being in pristine condition relative to its original production state. Originally, the phrase related to the way collect ...

. The album was released on October 5, 1993 on

Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born June 6, 1959) and Terry Steven Lewis (born November 24, 1956) are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. They have enjoyed great success since the 1980s with various artists, most ...

' record label Perspective Records. The album peaked and charted at number 104 on the Billboard 200 and number 18 on the Top R&B Albums chart.

Track listing

Credits adapted from liner notesMint Condition - From The Mint Factory (CD liner notes). Perspective Records. 31454-9005-2 and

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Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes, Discogs and

. * Stokley Williams -

drum programming Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These ...

, drums,

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 ...

, djembe drum, bass synth,

steel pan The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. Descriptio ...

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. Ex ...

B-3 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 ...

, clavinet, lead vocals,

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

* Keri Lewis - keyboards, drum programming, bass synth, background vocals * Lawrence Waddell -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, keyboards, B-3 Organ, background vocals * Homer O'Dell -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, keyboards, drum programming, background vocals * Ricky Kinchen - bass, background vocals * Jeffrey Allen -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

, keyboards, fender rhodes, background vocals

Additional personnel

* Jellybean Johnson - guitar solo * Chris "Daddy" Dave - drums * Foley - guitar solo * James "Popeye" Greer - background vocals * Lisa Dixon - background vocals * Chris "Daddy" Dave - background vocals * Alice Paguyo - background vocals * Heidi Valera - background vocals * Cajun Joe - background vocals * Mint Condition - record engineering * Bradley Yost - record engineering * Jeff Taylor - record engineering * Steve Hodge - record engineering * Steve Hodge - mixing * Dave Rideau - mixing *

Brian Gardner Brian Knapp Gardner, also known as Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, is an American mastering engineer. He has worked on a number of recordings since the mid-1960s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B, hip hop, pop punk and dance- ...

- mastering * Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - executive production * Jeff Katz -

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

* Rowan Moore - art direction and design

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control 1993 albums Mint Condition (band) albums Perspective Records albums