''Full Force Galesburg'' is the fourth studio album by

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, released in 1997. It consists of songs written and recorded by

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. Darnielle has stated that most, if not all, of the album was written in

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. Most of the songs were performed by Darnielle singing and playing guitar solo, and recorded on his Panasonic RX-FT500

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; however, several songs also feature stringed instrumentation from Alastair Galbraith.

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's Peter Hughes adds backing vocals and guitar work on a few tracks as well.

Track listing

Personnel

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 ...

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 stri ...

* Alastair Galbraith -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(13, 15) * Peter Hughes -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

*Bob Durkee - organ

References

External links

Complete lyrics to the album
{{Authority control 1997 albums The Mountain Goats albums