''Second Chance'' is the second studio release by

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...

-based singer-songwriter Marc Douglas Berardo. The songs are original songs by Berardo with a few exceptions. Berardo collaborated with Michael Branden to write "After the Show"; a song about the various carnival and circus workers that spent the off season in

Gibsonton, Florida Gibsonton, sometimes nicknamed Gibtown, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. U.S. Route 41 runs through the center of the community. The population was 14,234 at the 2010 ce ...

. The title track "Second Chance" was written Don Ojo Dunaway and released in 1995 by Rich Mountain Music. Long Way home was written by Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar. Jennifer Layton describing the songs in a review she wrote for ''Indie Music'' said, "Imagine Bruce Springsteen stories as Glen Frey would tell them. Jackson Browne would kill to cover some of these songs."

Track listing

# "Old Field Lane Intro" # "Useless" # "Ventura County Skies" # "Thin Air" # "Franklinville" # "After The Show" # "Burning" # "Downtown" # "Crow's Theme" # "Long Way Home" # "Into The Great Unknown" # "Second Chance" # "On The Last Day of Summer"

Personnel

Musicians

* Marc Douglas Berardo –

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 ...

, acoustic guitar, percussion, keyboards,

harmonies In music, harmony is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into whole units or compositions. Often, the term harmony refers to simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches ( tones, notes), or chords. However, ...

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 ...

on Second Chance * Dick Neal –

, electric guitar,

Dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

* Scott Berardo – Drums * Pete Szymanski – bass guitars and Panasonic DA-7 * Nick Vitiello – percussion,

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). ...

shaker Shaker or Shakers may refer to: Religious groups * Shakers, a historically significant Christian sect * Indian Shakers, a smaller Christian denomination Objects and instruments * Shaker (musical instrument), an indirect struck idiophone * Cock ...

snare drum The snare (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used ...

on Franklinville * Chris Berardo –

harmony vocals Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical chora ...

, harmonica, percussion * Michael Branden –

, acoustic guitar * Mark Mirando –

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 ...

* Charlene Maciejny – vocals on Downtown * CJ Masters –

pedal steel The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can p ...

Production

*Produced by: Pete Szymanski, and Marc Douglas Berardo. Burning by Dick Neal *Mixed by: Pete Szymanski and Marc Douglas Berardo at Hayloft Studios assisted by Dick Neal December 1999 to May 2000 *Recorded by: Michael Branden at Hayloft Studios, Milford, CT. *Mastered at 9West, Framingham, MA. June 2000

Artwork

*Photography: Kim Mitchell *Design and Layout: Michael Brandon

References

{{Authority control 2000 albums Marc Douglas Berardo albums