''Things Worth Fighting For'' is the debut album by solo artist

John McKeown John McKeown is a solo artist based in London, England, signed to Beatroute Records.''Music Week''Beatroute Records makes return 8 August 2009. McKeown previously fronted rock group, Hero. After a European tour with Stereophonics and a numbe ...

. The album was released digitally by Beatroute Records on the 28 September 2009. The album was produced by

Elliott Randall Elliott Randall (born June 15, 1947) is an American guitarist best known for being a session musician with popular artists. Randall played the well-known guitar solos from Steely Dan's song "Reelin' in the Years" and Irene Cara's song " Fame". The ...

Steely Dan Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired from live ...

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Track listing

#"Will You Be Mine" #"Can't Be Right" #"Touch You" #"Fade Away" #"Candy Girl" #"Dream on Valentine" #"Things Worth Fighting For" #"Up Where You Belong" #"Bleed" #"For You"

Album credits

''‘John McKeown Official Website''
‘Things Worth Fighting For’ album credits
* Produced by

and

* Recorded at RAK Studios,

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* Strings & Horns recorded at

SARM Studios Sarm Studios is an independent recording studio in London. Originally founded in east London in 1973, the studio's original location was renamed Sarm East Studios in 1982 when Jill Sinclair and Trevor Horn purchased Basing Street Studios from Isl ...

* String arrangements by Pete Murray * Horn arrangement by

Steve Sidwell Steven James Sidwell (born 14 December 1982) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Sidwell was a product of the Arsenal academy, and after winning two FA Youth Cups, he had constructive loan spells at Bren ...

* Engineered by Wes Maebe * Mixed by

& Wes Maebe * Mastered by Wes Maebe at GHQ Sonic Cuisine * Assisted by: Robbie Nelson & Tim Goalen

Session musicians

The following musicians performed on the album. * Adam Phillips (

Guitars The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

) * Arnulf Lindner (

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) * Reverend Bazil Meade (

Backing Vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

) *

( Guitars, Backing Vocals) * Hugh Wilkinson (

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 ...

) * Jenn Potter (

) * Joshua Makhene (

) * Luyanda Tezile (

) * Hugh Wilkinson (

) * Pete Murray (

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 ...

) * Peter Zorn (

Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

) *

Phebe Edwards Phebe Edwards (born 9 June) is an English singer and songwriter. She has appeared as a studio backing vocalist for a number of artists such as Stormzy, Craig David, London Grammar, Michael Kiwanuka, Donna Summer and Leona Lewis. In 2006 she san ...

(

) * Pinse Saul (

) *

Ralph Salmins The Waterboys are a folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Mike Scott has remained ...

(

Drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

) * Tshepo Rakobo (

) * Zalika King (

)

References

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