''Michigan Rain'' is the debut album from

Gregg Alexander Gregg Alexander (born Gregory Aiuto; May 4, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known as the frontman of the New Radicals, who had an international hit with " You Get What You Give" in late 1998. He dissol ...

, released in 1989 by

A&M Records A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distr ...

. The album was originally supposed to be titled ''Save Me from Myself'', but the title was changed at the last minute, because, as Alexander explained, " ..the cover was me standing on a bridge with a broken mirror on my wrist and it was before the suicide chic thing." "In The Neighborhood" was released as a single, backed with "Don't Cry, Mrs. Davis". "Michigan Rain" was later re-recorded for his 1992 album ''

Intoxifornication ''Intoxifornication'' is the second album by Gregg Alexander, released on May 5, 1992. It includes three tracks ("Loving You Sets Me Free", "Cruel with Me" and "The World We Love So Much") that had already been released on Alexander's 1989 debut ...

''. The album also featured an extended mix of "Save Me From Myself", and identically reprised tracks "Loving You Sets Me Free", "Cruel With Me" and "The World We Love So Much". The album was not very successful on release, being a minor hit in Italy. Despite Alexander's later success with New Radicals, ''Michigan Rain'' was taken out of print when he was dropped from A&M, and has long been rare and out of print. It is also the only one of his albums to have been released on vinyl, though CD and cassette versions were also produced.

Track listing

All songs written by Gregg Alexander. # "In the Neighborhood" – 4:08 # "Michigan Rain" – 2:47 # "Loving You Sets Me Free" – 4:27 # "Cruel with Me" – 4:05 # "Save Me from Myself" – 5:16 # "Ev'ry Now and Then" – 3:48 # "Don't Cry Mrs. Davis" – 5:51 # "Sinner Times Ten" – 3:41 # "Five and Dimes and Petty Crimes" – 2:48 # "The World We Love So Much" – 4:12

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 ...

electric Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by ...

and

acoustic guitars An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

Kenny Aronoff Kenny Aronoff (born March 7, 1953) is an American session drummer. Early life Aronoff grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts He developed an interest in music at an early age and gravitated to the drums as "drumming was one hundred percent ene ...

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 ...

N'Dea Davenport N'Dea Davenport (born September 22, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and producer. She was the lead vocalist in the UK acid jazz band the Brand New Heavies and made pioneering contributions to the genre of acid jazz. Career He ...

- principal

background vocalist Background may refer to: Performing arts and stagecraft * Background actor * Background artist * Background light * Background music * Background story * Background vocals * ''Background'' (play), a 1950 play by Warren Chetham-Strode Record ...

* Denny Fongheiser - drums * Laura Harding - additional background vocals * Charles Judge - keyboards, acoustic piano *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitch ...

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 ...

* David Munday - additional background vocals *

Rick Nowels Richard Wright Nowels Jr. is an American songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and arranger. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles with multiple artists 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 ...

and

acoustic 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 ...

, additional background vocals * John Pierce - bass * Rudy Richman - drums * Ben Schultz - guitars * Robbie Seidman - additional background vocals * Sandy Stewart - additional background vocals *

Maria Vidal Maria Elena Vidal (born August 1, 1960) is an American singer songwriter. She is known for her hit single "Body Rock", which reached No. 8 on the US Dance Charts, No. 48 on the Hot 100, No. 5 on the Springbok Charts in South Africa, and No. 11 i ...

- additional background vocals

References

External links

NewRadicals.Us
Unofficial forum covering New Radicals, Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois. {{Authority control Gregg Alexander albums 1989 debut albums Albums produced by Rick Nowels A&M Records albums