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, released on April 14, 2009. Four tracks were released on the band's web-site in 2007, with a fifth track being posted later.
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formats, as well as two music videos for songs not among the album's audio tracks, "

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" and "Tell Me It's OK". It was released on the "A Minor Label" label. The album was produced using XOΔE (CODE), a high fidelity audio standard and optimization system created by producer Burnett. All the main band members are credited with providing

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, and management, booking, legal, art/design, and photography personnel all have "(and Bass)" attached to their credits, part of an

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related to the band's fictitious origin story.

Music videos

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was produced for the track "Listen to Those Eyes" produced by

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Track listing

Studio tracks from official page # "Bleeding of Love" # "Unspoken Words" # "I'm Glad You Think So" (R. McNamee) # "Blink of an Eye" (

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" # "Kick It Open" (

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) # "Listen to Those Eyes" (A. McNamee) # "I Ain't Ever Satisfied" (

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) # "Dance Inside the Lightning" # "Dusty Streets of Cairo" # "This Changes Everything"

Personnel

Moonalice

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– guitars, vocals, bass *

– guitar, vocals, bass *

Barry Sless Barry Sless (born December 22, 1955) is an American musician from Baltimore, Maryland. He is plays both traditional six-string guitar and the pedal steel guitar. Performances with *Section 8 *David Nelson Band *Phil and Friends *Moonalice * Kin ...

– guitar, vocals, pedal steel guitar, bass *

– keyboards, vocals, accordion, bass *

Jack Casady John William "Jack" Casady (born April 13, 1944) is an American bass guitarist, best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco Sound. Singles including " So ...

– bass * James Sanchez – drums, bass *

– percussion, vocals, bass

Guest artists

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— drums, percussion *

T Bone Burnett Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, guitarist and songwriter. He rose to fame as a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band during the 1970s. He has received multiple Grammy awards for his work in film ...

— guitar *

Dave Way Dave Way is an American producer, mixer and audio engineer based in Los Angeles, California, United States. He has worked with Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Kesha, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Macy Gray, Ringo Starr, Shakira, Phoebe Bridgers, John Doe, Sa ...

— bass *

Roger Love Roger Love is an American vocal coach based in Los Angeles who has worked with many singers, actors and public speakers. Career Love took his first singing lessons when he was 13 years old. By 16 or 17 he studied vocal pedagogy in Seth Riggs's ...

— background vocals *

Stacy Parrish Stacy Parrish (born Stacy Parrish Whitehead, October 18, 1968, St. Charles, Missouri), and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an American songwriter, musician, engineer, and record producer. Biography Parrish began playing piano at age 7. He ...

— background vocals * Children's chorus on "This Changes Everything" — Simone Burnett, Madison Love, Riley Way

References

* ''Moonalice'' liner and DVD audio notes. 2009 albums Albums produced by T Bone Burnett {{2000s-album-stub