''Lex Rex'' is the sixth studio album by American
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. In ...
band
Glass Hammer
Glass Hammer is an American progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee, created and led by Steve Babb and Fred Schendel.
Babb and Schendel, who founded the band in 1992, are the only constant members in the lineup, having surrounded the ...
, released on September 1, 2002.
It is the first album of the band to be released with the same line-up as its predecessor.
This line-up, consisting of Fred Schendel, Steve Babb, Susie Bogdanowicz and Walter Moore, would last until their tenth studio album, 2007's ''
Culture of Ascent
Culture of Ascent is the ninth studio album by American progressive rock band Glass Hammer, released on October 23, 2007. It is a concept album based on Jon Krakauer's novel ''Into Thin Air''.
It was the last album with singer Carl Groves before ...
''.
Track listing
Personnel
Glass Hammer
* Fred Schendel – lead and backing vocals,
steel guitars, electric and acoustic guitars,
Hammond organ, piano,
pipe organ, keyboards, synthesizers,
Mellotron,
mandolin,
recorder
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, drums, percussion
* Steve Babb – lead and backing vocals, four and
eight-string bass guitars, keyboards, pipe organ, Hammond organ, Mellotron
* Susie Bogdanowicz – lead vocals and backing vocals
* Walter Moore – lead and backing vocals
Additional musicians
* Sarah Lowell – lead and backing vocals
* Haley McGuire – lead and backing vocals
* Carrie Streets – backing vocals
* Bjorn Lynne – lead guitar on "Tales of the Great Wars"
* Charlie Shelton – lead guitar on "One King"
* David Carter – lead guitar on "Further Up and Further In"
Production
* Fred Schendel – producer
* Steve Babb – producer
* Rosana Azar –
cover art
References
Glass Hammer albums
2002 albums
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