''Whalebone'' is the sixth studio release

Marc Douglas Berardo Marc Douglas Berardo is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Port Chester, New York, and raised in Rye, New York. He currently resides in Westerly, Rhode Island. Berardo's songwriting has been compared to that of John Prine, James ...

. All songs were written by Berardo except "My Mistakes", which was co-written with Abbie Gardner of

Red Molly Red Molly is a folk trio consisting of Laurie MacAllister (vocals, bass), Abbie Gardner (vocals, guitar, Dobro, lap steel guitar), and Molly Venter (vocals, guitar). They perform original works composed by each of the group members as well as ot ...

, and "Silvermine Daydreamin'", which was written by Chris Berardo. John Apice from No Depression called it "a highly polished personal collection in the tradition of many clever songwriters of the past that forged songs like short stories."

Track listing

# "Don't Wait For Me (Slow You Down)" # "Sorting Out What Happened in the Night)" # "You Are Already Gone" # "Hotel on the Bay" # "My Mistakes" # "With Every Passing Day" # "My Friend" # "Silvermine Daydreamin'" # "Our Troubles" # "This is What I Call Fun" # "Lightning" # "It's Love" # "Wherever I Go" # "Another Song"

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 ...

, background vocals, guitar, percussion, Lincoln Schleifler-Bass * Dick Neal – electric guitars * Paulie Triff – drums * Arturo Baguer –

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

* Craig Aiken – bass * Jordan Jancz – bass * Liam Bailey –

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 ...

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 ...

s * Chris Berardo – vocals, harmonica,

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

, percussion, background vocals, scat vocals,

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 ...

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 ...

, block * John Juxo –

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 ...

, organ, keyboard, piano,

Rhodes piano 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, t ...

* Abbie Gardner –

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional ...

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 ...

, vocals, background vocals * Jon Pousette-Dart of the Pousette-Dart Band – electric guitar

Production

*Produced by: Chris Berardo *Recorded by: Mark Dann Recording. Additional recording in

Stratford, Connecticut Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. Stratford is in the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was settled ...

*Mixed by: Dick Neal and Chris Berardo *Mastered by: Mark Dann

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March 2013

Artwork

*Photography: Kim Mitchell *Whale Bone Drawing – Leslie Bender *Graphic Design and Layout: Marc Douglas Berardo and Chris Brown

References

{{Authority control 2013 albums Marc Douglas Berardo albums