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, Barry Flast, Danny "Rio" DeGennaro, Fred Campbell, Mookie Siegel, Robbie Hoddinott, Jimmy Sanchez, and Ana Rizzo. A number of guest musicians and singers also perform on the album, including Jenni Muldaur, the daughter of

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, another former member of Kingfish, appears on several songs, and sings lead vocals on "Padlock Cufflinks", as well as a duet with Barry Flast on "Starship Ride".

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plays guitar on "Ridin' High", a track created by combining a recording session from 1973 with newly recorded parts.

Track listing

# "Hurt Enough" (Barry Flast) # "Sundown on the Forest" (Barry Flast, Michael Johnson) # "It Don't Take Much" (Marcus Strange) # "Burning in My Heart" (Barry Flast) # "Ridin' High" (Bill Cutler) # "Padlock Cufflinks" (James A. Nelson III, Barry Flast) # "Goodbye, So Long" (Marcus Strange) # "Every Little Light" (

, Marcus Strange) # "Eyes of the Night" (Barry Flast) # "

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) # "Jump for Joy" (John Carter, Tim Gilbert)

Personnel

Musicians

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* Danny DeGennaro – vocals * Barry Flast – piano, vocals, keyboard bass * Rick Anderson – bass * Fred Campbell – bass,

acoustic guitar 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, ...

, vocals * Caitlen Cornwell – vocals * Jerry Cortez – guitar * Bill Cutler – vocals * Greg Douglas – guitar * Zoe Ellis – vocals *

– guitar * Robbie Hoddinott – guitar *

– guitar * Jenni Muldaur – vocals * James A. Nelson III –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Eric Parker –

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* Ray Parnell – guitar *

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– drums * Jimmy Pew –

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* Robert Powell –

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, 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 s ...

* Ari Rios – vocals * Ana Rizzo – vocals * Jimmy Sanchez – drums * Mookie Siegel – piano,

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, percussion * David Simon-Baker – acoustic guitar *

– guitar, pedal steel guitar * Bobby Vega – bass *

– acoustic guitar, vocals

Production

* Matthew Kelly and Barry Flast – producers * Ari Rios, David Simon-Baker – mixing and mastering * Stephen Hart, Michael Semanick – basic track engineers * Eric Thompson – asst. engineer * Tad Flynn – executive producer * Mark Perlson – project coordinator * Bruce Harman – cover artwork * Sharon Carson – Kingfish logo design * Yalitza Ferreras – design and layout * Joanie Grayson, Robin Gascon – Kingfish's management

References

{{Authority control Kingfish (band) albums 1999 albums