''The Fall Risk, Volume No. 1'' is the eponymous debut album by the band

The Fall Risk The Fall Risk is an American folk rock band founded by Furthur vocalist Jeff Pehrson in 2009. History Box Set (1991-2006) Jeff Pehrson, currently a backup vocalist for Furthur, began playing guitar and writing original songs in 1985 while matr ...

. The album began production in March 2013 and was officially released on August 1, 2013, coinciding with the birthday of

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...

("Jerry Day").

Track listing

#"Cross My Heart" ( Jeff Pehrson) – 4:16 #"Wendy Ann" (Pehrson) – 4:14 #"Angeline" (Pehrson) – 4:22 #"Hollow" (Pehrson) – 3:50 #"LeClair" (Pehrson) – 3:23 #"Ode" (Pehrson) – 4:28 #"Cry" (Pehrson) – 3:31 #"Cry Baby Cry" (Pehrson) – 3:07 #"HBWA" (Pehrson) – 4:17

Personnel

;The Fall Risk * Jeff Pehrson — acoustic guitar, vocals *Phil Savell – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, resonator guitar *Mark Abbott – drums, percussion *Sammy Johnston – organ,

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 ...

, harmonica,

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

, vocals *Rich Goldstein —

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...

, lead guitar, rhythm guitar *Matt Twain – piano, keyboards, vocals *Mike Sugar – bass ;Special Guests *

Tony Furtado Tony Furtado (born October 18, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter, banjoist, and guitarist. History Furtado was born in Pleasanton, California. He took up the banjo at age 12, inspired by the Beverly Hillbillies television show and a sixth- ...

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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 ...

and bottleneck slide on "LeClair" *Jason Crosby —

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

on "Angeline" ;Production *Produced by Chris Manning *Executive producer: R. Cooper Gruen *Recorded at

TRI Studios Tamalpais Research Institute, also known as TRI Studios, is a virtual music venue in San Rafael, California; it is the brainchild of Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, currently of Dead & Company as well as Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. TRI is a state-o ...

and Salamander Sound *Artwork and design: Gelsey Maslanka *Social media and PR: BANDAID Social Media *All songs written & Copyright Controlled by Jeff Pehrson (Oenophile Music,

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fall Risk The Fall Risk albums 2013 debut albums Music of the San Francisco Bay Area