''Join Dan Sartain'' is the fourth album by the

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musician

Dan Sartain Daniel Fredrick Sartain (August 13, 1981 – March 20, 2021) was an American musician. His music encompasses a variety of genres, including rockabilly, punk rock and the blues. Career After releasing two self-produced albums through independe ...

, released in 2006 by

Swami Records Swami Records is a San Diego-based independent record label specializing in punk rock and rock music. The label was founded in 2000 by John Reis, who also has his own radio show, ''Swami Sound System'', on station 94.9FM KBZT KBZT (94.9 FM, ...

. Several additional musicians recorded on the album, including Swami Records owner

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. Several songs from the album were released as singles in the

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and charted on the Independent Singles chart there. "Replacement Man" reached #18, while "Flight of the Finch" reached #16 and "Thought it Over" reached #21. "Gun vs. Knife" was released as a single in the

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but did not chart.

Track listing

Performers

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 ...

*Raj Parmely -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

and

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. Exc ...

*Brian Moon -

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

and

xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...

on track 15 *Al Sartain - backing vocals on track 7 *Mariachi Real de San Diego -

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band on tracks 4 and 10 *

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, guitar, percussion and arrangements on tracks 4, 5, 6, 10, and 11; backing vocals on track 12;

maraca A maraca (), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas (from Guaraní ), also known as tamaracas, were r ...

s on track 9 *Gar Wood - backing vocals on track 13 *Ben Moore -

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 keyboa ...

on track 5

Album information

*Record label:

*Tracks 4, 5, 6, 10. and 11 recorded by Ben Moore *Tracks 2, 8, and 12 recorded by Liam Watson at Toe Rag studios *Tracks 7 and 15 recorded by Brian Moon in

*Tracks 4, 5, 6, 10, and 11 arranged and produced by John Reis *Tracks 1, 3, 9, 13, and 14 recorded by Gar Wood at Strange Sounds studio *Mastered by Dave Gardner at Magneto Mastering *Portraits and artwork by Dan Sartain, based on photographs taken by Wez Frazer, Rachel Lipschwitz, Jonathan Purvis, and Johnny Donhowe *Layout by Joey Mansfield {{Authority control 2006 albums Dan Sartain albums