Indigo Girls (album)

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Track listing

1. "Closer to Fine" (Emily Saliers
   Emily Saliers
   
   Emily Saliers is an United States singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, bouzouki and many other instruments....
   ) – 4:02
2. "Secure Yourself" (Amy Ray
   Amy Ray
   
   Amy Elizabeth Ray is an American singer-songwriter and member of the well-known contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.On March 6, 2001 she released her first solo album, Stag , a southern and punk rock album....
   ) – 3:35
3. "Kid Fears" (Ray) – 4:34
4. "Prince of Darkness" (Saliers) – 5:21
5. "Blood and Fire" (Ray) – 4:38
6. "Tried to Be True" (Ray) – 2:59
7. "Love's Recovery" (Saliers) – 4:23
8. "Land of Canaan" (Ray) – 3:57
9. "Center Stage" (Ray) – 4:46
10. "History of Us" (Saliers) – 5:27

Bonus tracks (2000 reissue)

1. "Land of Canaan (Radio single remix)" (Ray) – 3:06
2. "Center Stage" (Live) (Ray) – 4:04 Recorded live at Shepherds Bush Empire
   Shepherds Bush Empire
   
   The Shepherds Bush Empire is a music venue in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, run by the Academy Music Group....
   , London, November 24 1994

Personnel

• Amy Ray
  Amy Ray
  
  Amy Elizabeth Ray is an American singer-songwriter and member of the well-known contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.On March 6, 2001 she released her first solo album, Stag , a southern and punk rock album....
   – lead vocals, guitars
• Emily Saliers
  Emily Saliers
  
  Emily Saliers is an United States singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, bouzouki and many other instruments....
   - lead vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  
  The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  s, twelve string electric guitar
  Twelve string guitar
  
  The twelve-string guitar is an Steel-string guitar or electric guitar guitar with twelve string in six Course , which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar....
   on 2, lead electric guitar on 6

Additional personnel

• Peter O'Toole – mandolin
  Mandolin
  
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
   on 1 2, backing vocals on 1
• Fiachna Ó Braonáin
  Fiachna Ó Braonáin
  
  Fiachna ? Braon?in plays the guitar and sings vocals with the Ireland band Hothouse Flowers. Born in Dublin, he received his school education at Scoil Lorc?in and Col?iste Eoin....
   – tin whistle
  Tin whistle
  
  The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, whistle, pennywhistle or Irish whistler, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument....
   on 1, backing vocals on 1, Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
  
  The Hammond organ is an electronic organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to Church as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, Rock and r...
   on 2
• Liam Ó Maonlaí
  Liam Ó Maonlaí
  
  Liam ? Maonla? is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Hothouse Flowers. ? Maonla? formed the band in 1985 with his schoolmate Fiachna ? Braon?in....
   – bodhran
  Bodhrán
  
  The bodhr?n is an Ireland frame drum ranging from 25 to 65cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20cm deep....
   on 1, backing vocals on 1
• Luka Bloom
  Luka Bloom
  
  Luka Bloom is an accomplished Ireland folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is also the younger brother of Irish folk music singer Christy Moore....
   – backing vocals on 1
• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussion instrument born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio and television commercials....
   – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
   on 1 2 4 8
• Dede Vogt - bass
  Bass guitar
  
  The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
   on 2 3 7 10
• Jay Dee Daugherty
  Jay Dee Daugherty
  
  Jay Dee Daugherty is an United States drummer and songwriter most well known for his work with Patti Smith, appearing on all her solo albums. As a member of the Patti Smith Group, he has been nominated twice to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
   – drums
  Drum kit
  
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
   on 2 4 8
• John Keane
  John Keane (record producer)
  
  John Keane is an American record producer based in Athens, Georgia, who has worked extensively with R.E.M. , Indigo Girls and Widespread Panic. He owns and operates John Keane Studios in Athens, which opened in 1981....
   – twelve string electric guitar on 3, bass on 4, shaker
  Shaker (percussion)
  
  The word shaker describes a large number of percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music.They are so called because the method of creating sound involves shaking them?moving them back and forth rather than striking them....
   on 6, slide guitar
  Slide guitar
  
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide is in reference to the sliding motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides, which were the necks of glass bottles....
   on 8 9, bass drum
  Bass drum
  
  A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
   on 9
• Michael Stipe
  Michael Stipe
  
  John Michael Stipe is an United States singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surrealism lyrics, as well as his social and political activism....
   – backing vocals on 3
• Bill Berry
  Bill Berry
  
  William "Bill" Thomas Berry is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer....
   – drums on 6
• Peter Buck
  Peter Buck
  
  Peter Lawrence Buck is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band R.E.M.....
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  
  An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
   on 6
• Mike Mills
  Mike Mills
  
  Michael Edward Mills is the bass guitar player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist, piano player and background singer, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, guitar, string, wind and percussion instruments....
   – bass on 6
• Jai Winding – piano
  Piano
  
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
   on 7
• Kasim Sulton
  Kasim Sulton
  
  Kasim Sulton is an American bass guitarist, keyboardist, and singer. Best known for his work with Utopia , Sulton sang lead on 1980's "Set Me Free", Utopia's only top 40 hit in the US....
   – bass on 8
• John Van Tongeren
  John Van Tongeren
  
  John Van Tongeren is a music composer, mainly for film score and television series....
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  
  A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
   on 10

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