Vanishing Act

Meet the Players

  1. My Dumb Luck (Edward O’Connell)
  2. Lonely Crowd (Edward O’Connell)
  3. Every Precious Day (Edward O’Connell)
  4. What Have You Done? (Edward O’Connell/Peter Gilstrap)
  5. Same Old Faces (Edward O’Connell/Peter Gilstrap)
  6. I’m The Man (Edward O’Connell)
  7. Severance Kiss (Peter Gilstrap/Edward O’Connell)
  8. Odds Against Tomorrow (Edward O’Connell)
  9. Yesterday’s World (Edward O’Connell)
  10. Last To Leave (Edward O’Connell/Peter Gilstrap)
  11. Vanishing Act (Edward O’Connell/Peter Gilstrap)
  12. The End Of The Line (Edward O’Connell)

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(1), (2), (3), (6), (8), (9) and (12):
© 2014 Edward O’Connell
(Near Occasion of Song Music, BMI)

(4), (5), (7), (10) and (11):
© 2014 Edward O’Connell/Peter Gilstrap
(Near Occasion of Song Music, BMI/Peter Gilstrap Music, BMI)

Produced, engineered and mixed by Jared Bartlett

Additional engineering on (11) by Mark Williams

Recorded at Sucker Punch Studio, Bethesda, Maryland

November 2013 – April 2014 [/ezcol_1half]

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Edward O’Connell: Vocals, acoustic guitars, piano, organ, melodica, percussion

Buddy Speir: Electric guitars and solos

Jonathan Babu: Drums, percussion, pistachio shells

Jacob Chmara: Electric and acoustic basses

Jared Bartlett: Percussion; acoustic guitar on (8), electric guitar on (12)

Kevin Cordt: Trumpet on (4), (5), (7)

David Henry: Strings on (4), (11)

Fats Kaplin: Banjo, pedal steel guitar and violin on (6)

Chris Watling: Baritone and tenor saxophones on (5)

Parthenon Huxley: Backing vocals on (11)

David Kitchen: Backing vocals on (2), (8), (10), (12)

Karl Straub: Backing vocals on (2), (6), (8)

Kennedy Wright: Backing vocals on (1), (3)

Todd Wright: Backing vocals on (1), (5), (7), (12)

Strings on (4) and (11) arranged by David Henry

Horn arrangements by Karl Straub (5) and Peter Gilstrap (7), with assistance from Kevin Cordt and Chris Watling

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