''Harbor'' is the fourth studio release of all original music by

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–based singer-songwriter

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Track listing

# "Blue Wave" # "Shake Out The Dust" # "Take It Along" # "Where The Road Turns to Shell and Sand" # "Harbor" # "Working" # "Abuse" # "So, Regarding Me and You" # "Better After All" # "Ricky" # "Trust Fund Sally" # "The Ghosts We Left Behind" # "I Will See You in My Dreams"

Personnel

Musicians

* Marc Douglas Berardo –

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 ...

, acoustic guitar,

harmonies In music, harmony is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into whole units or compositions. Often, the term harmony refers to simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches ( tones, notes), or chords. However, ...

* Dick Neal –

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

, electric guitar, organ,

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

Pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptua ...

, piano, Classical guitar,

Twelve-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...

, percussion * Steve Combs – electric and acoustic Bass guitar * Chris Berardo – percussion, box drum kit,

harmony vocals Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical chora ...

* Liam Bailey – electric guitar, piano, resonator guitar,

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

* Mark Mirando – acoustic piano * Larry Deming –

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

, violin * Susan Spalding –

french horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

Production

*Produced by: Dick Neal *Mixed by: Dick Neal assisted by Pete Szymanski April 2005 to August 2005 *Recorded by: Michael Branden at Hayloft Studios,

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*Mastered by: Gene Paul at DB Plust Digital Services, New York City, October 2005

Artwork

*Photography: Kim Mitchell *Graphic Design and Layout: Chris Brown

References

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