''Safe Inside the Day'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter

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. Released on January 21, 2008, it was her debut album on the Drag City label. It was Dee's first album to feature collaborators. It was produced by and features

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and

Matt Sweeney Matt Sweeney (born July 2, 1969) is an American musician and record producer best known as a guitarist of Skunk, Chavez, and supergroup Zwan. Early life and education Sweeney was born in New Jersey. His father was John D. Sweeney, a professo ...

. It also features friend and future producer

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on bass and drums.

Track listing

All songs written by Baby Dee. #"Safe Inside the Day" – 6:22 #"The Earlie King" – 5:27 #"A Compass of the Light" – 3:34 #"The Only Bones That Show" – 5:18 #"Fresh out of Candles" – 6:04 #"Big Titty Bee Girl (from Dino Town)" – 3:02 #"Christmas Jig for a Three-Legged Cat" – 1:14 #"Flowers on the Tracks" – 4:02 #"The Dance of Diminishing Possibilities" – 4:11 #"Bad Kidneys" – 4:36 #"You'll Find Your Footing" – 4:54

Personnel

*Baby Dee – vocals (1–6,9-11), piano (1–9,11),

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

(8,9),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

(10),

fender rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(10),

bird calls Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by func ...

(10), maniacal laughter (10) *Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – vocals (1,2,4,5,9,10), fun machine (10) *Matt Sweeney – guitar (1,3–5,9),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

(2,9), vocals (2,10), bass (3,9), drums (9,10) *Andrew WK – bass (1,2,4,5,10,11), drums (3,9) *Max Moston – violin (1–5,7–9,11) *Bill Breeze –

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

(1–5,9,11) *John Contreras – cello (1–5,7–9,11) *Robbie Lee –

woodwinds Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed ...

(2,4,5,7,10) *Lia Kessel – vocals (2,4,9) *James Lo – drums (2,4,5) *Reggae Paul – drum fill (2,(0.39)), guest bass slide (11, (0.59))

References

External links

"The Dance of Diminishing Possibilities" music video
{{DEFAULTSORT:Safe Inside the Day 2008 albums Baby Dee albums Drag City (record label) albums