''Retrospective'' is the name of an anthology album by the music group

Monkey House Monkey House is a musical group founded by Don Breithaupt, a Canadian-born pianist, singer/songwriter, composer, arranger, producer and author. The group got its name from a 1970 book by Kurt Vonnegut. History The band formed in 1992, performing ...

, which was released in 2013 on the Green Dolphin Music label. Monkey House is a rock/pop/jazz group led by

Don Breithaupt Don Breithaupt (born April 8, 1961) is a Canadian pianist, singer/songwriter, composer, arranger, producer and author. He received his musical education at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied Jazz Composition and Arranging, and h ...

. This release has a total of 44 tracks: 38 songs, plus six interviews. It includes almost every tune from their first two albums, ''Welcome to the Club'' (1992), and ''True Winter'' (1998), and also has four newer songs that were on the 2005 release entitled ''Big Money: Singles Remasters Rarities 1992-2005''. Additionally, six tunes not previously released are on this anthology album, five of them being instrumentals, as well as the tune "I'm Not That Guy" from the ''Headquarters'' (2012 album) sessions, but had not been included on that album. Special guests include

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drummer

Richie Hayward Richard "Richie" Hayward (February 6, 1946 – August 12, 2010) was an American drummer best known as a founding member and drummer in the band Little Feat. He performed with several bands and worked as a session player. Hayward also joined ...

and former

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member David Blamires.

Track listing

All songs written by

Personnel

- lead and backup vocals, keyboards, percussion, arranger, producer *

Rich Dodson Rich Dodson (born 1947) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who is the guitarist, vocalist and a founding member of the rock trio The Stampeders. He is best known for penning the group's biggest hit, "Sweet City Woman", which hit number 1 i ...

- producer, guitar *Mark Kelso – drums on track 1, brushes, hi-hat *

- drums *Rick Gratton - drums *Pat Kilbride - bass on track 1 *Mike Francis - guitar, electric sitar * John David (Dave) Dunlop - guitar *Kenny Vehkavaara - guitar *Asher Horowitz - guitar *Peter Smith - guitar *Carlos Lopes - guitar *Anthony Vanderburgh - guitar *

Kevin Breit Kevin Breit is a Canadian musician from Northern Canada. Breit has collaborated in numerous bands, and recorded solo albums on his own Poverty Playlist label, and Stony Plain Records. He is also well known for session work on numerous Grammy awa ...

- guitar, mandolin, backup vocals *Burke Carroll - pedal steel guitar *Perry White – saxophone *John Johnson – saxophones, EWI *Tony Carlucci - trumpet *Dave Dunlop - cornet, trumpet *Gord Myers - trombone *Terry Promane - trombone *Rikki Rumball - backup vocals, lead vocal on tracks 20 & 33 *David Blamires - backup vocals *Lorraine Lawson - backup vocals *Debbie Johnson - backup vocals *Suzanne Zrinscak - backup vocals *Densil Pinnock - backup vocals, scat & octave vocals on track 24 *Jeff Breithaupt - character voice on track 13 *Aashna - voices *MC Squared - rap lines on track 13 *Ross Breithaupt - congas

References

External links

Current website

Monkey House Facebook page
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