Working On My Farewell is the fourth studio album by the folk-singer John Craigie. It was released in January 2015 on Zabriskie Point Records. Recorded in small studios in Santa Cruz, California, and Portland, Oregon, this album is famous for being Craigie's "electric album", with each song being played on electric guitar – a departure from his primarily acoustic style. Although promoted as electric, it is actually one of Craigie's quietest and most melancholic albums, being compared to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and Beck's Sea Change'. The title "Working On My Farewell"is taken from the lyrics of the song "Rexroth's Daughter" by Greg Brown
As with the three previous studio albums, Randy Schwartz appears on drums and Cian Riordan is chief engineer.
Track listing No.TitleLength1Skipping Like a Stone3:492Burn That Dress4:343Vast Dead Forest4:314Mourning You3:345Catalina4:526Cactus3:457Bisbee4:378Coldest Colorado4:399My Darkest Lover5:2910Vondelpark5:31
Personnel John Craigie – electric guitar, vocals, percussion, producer Randy Schwartz - drums, percussion, vocals Justin Landis- electric guitar, electric bass Niko Daoussis - electric guitar, electric bass Steve Varney - electric guitar Leigh Jones - vocals, percussion Kat Fountain - vocals Ben Darwish - piano, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, organ Jason Montgomery - pedal steel guitar Laurie Shook - ghost vocals, banjo Anna Tivel - violin Jamie Mefford - Rhodes
Production: Cian Riordan - engineering Jamie Mefford - mixing
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