Don't Do Anything
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Don't Do Anything is the eleventh studio album
Studio album
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 by American
United States
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 singer and songwriter
Songwriter
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 Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips (singer)
Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an American singer and a songwriter.-Biography:Phillips was born in Glendale, California. She began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Christian artists Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and others...

. The album is Phillips' first to be self-produced and was released on June 3, 2008.

"Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" was previously recorded by Robert Plant
Robert Plant
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 and Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
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 for their 2007 album Raising Sand
Raising Sand
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. Phillips stated the song was inspired by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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.

Track listing

All songs were written by Phillips.
  1. "No Explanations" – 3:08
  2. "Can't Come Down" – 1:58
  3. "Another Song" – 2:14
  4. "Don't Do Anything" – 3:28
  5. "Little Plastic Life" – 2:16
  6. "My Career in Chemistry" – 2:20
  7. "Flowers Up" – 2:28
  8. "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" – 2:44
  9. "Shake It Down" – 3:52
  10. "Under the Night" – 3:06
  11. "Signal" – 4:36
  12. "Watching Out of This World" – 3:03

Personnel

  • Jay Bellerose – drum
    Drum
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    s
  • Paul Bryan – bass
    Bass (instrument)
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  • Jennifer Condos – bass
  • Sam Phillips
    Sam Phillips (singer)
    Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an American singer and a songwriter.-Biography:Phillips was born in Glendale, California. She began her musical career as a vocalist in the early 1980s, singing background parts for Christian artists Mark Heard, Randy Stonehill and others...

     – acoustic guitar
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    , electric guitar
    Electric guitar
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    , piano
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    , vocals
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  • The Section Quartet
    The Section Quartet
    The Section Quartet is a string quartet that is based in Los Angeles, California. Emerging in 1998, Section features Eric Gorfain and Daphne Chen on violin, Lauren Chipman on viola, and Richard Dodd on cello. It specializes in turning popular rock songs into classical quartet pieces...

     – string section
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    • Daphne Chen – violin
      Violin
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    • Richard Dodd
      Richard Dodd
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       – cello
      Cello
      The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

    • Eric Gorfain
      Eric Gorfain
      Eric Gorfain is an American violinist and leader of The Section Quartet.He has been classically trained since the age of four and later participated in orchestras throughout his studies at UCLA, where he became symphony concertmaster....

       – banjo
      Banjo
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      , baritone guitar
      Baritone guitar
      The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...

      , electric guitar, electric mandolin
      Electric mandolin
      The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar.As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms:...

      , electric violin
      Electric violin
      An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body...

      , piano, stroh violin
      Stroh violin
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      , violin
    • Leah Katz – viola
      Viola
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  • Patrick Warren – pump organ

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