Phoenix is the first album by the singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Vince Bell

Vince Bell

Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...

 and was released on July 16, 1994, almost twelve years after Bell was broadsided by a drunk driver, leaving him with a severe traumatic head injury, broken ribs, multiple lacerations to his liver, and a mangled right forearm. The album landed high on many critics' best-of-the-year lists for 1994.

Track listing

1. "Frankenstein"
2. "The Beast"
3. "Hard Road"
4. "Troubletown"
5. "Sun & Moon & Stars"
6. "Mirror, Mirror"
7. "I've Had Enough"
8. "Girl Who Never Saw a Mountain"
9. "Woman of the Phoenix"
10. "Just Because"
11. "No Tomorrow"

Personnel

• Vince Bell
  Vince Bell
  Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...
  
   - vocal, guitar
• Geoff Muldaur
  Geoff Muldaur
  Geoff Muldaur is an American founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band of Cambridge, Massachusetts; a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days; and an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
  
   - mandolin, banjo, guitars
• Fritz Richmond
  Fritz Richmond
  John B. "Fritz" Richmond was an American musician and recording engineer. Fritz Richmond was considered the foremost washtub bassist in the world, and was also the most successful professional jug player....
  
   - washtub bass
• Bill Rich - bass
• David Mansfield
  David Mansfield
  David Mansfield is an American violinist, mandolin player, guitarist, pedal steel guitar player, and composer....
  
   - violin
• Mickey Raphael
  Mickey Raphael
  Michael Siegfried "Mickey" Raphael is a professional harmonica player, best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Mötley Crüe, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Chesney, U2 and Neil Young.Raphael's style is mostly second...
  
   - harmonica
• Stephen Bruton - guitars, mandolin
• John Cale
  John Cale
  John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
  
   - piano
• Jim Justice - violin
• Paul Logan - bass
• Victoria Williams
  Victoria Williams
  Victoria Williams is an American singer-songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career. She is noted for her descriptive songwriting talent, which she has used to immerse the listener of her songs into a...
  
   - guest vocalist
• Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
  
  - guest vocalist

External links

• Vince Bell official site
• Vince Bell's MySpace page
• Daryn Kagan profiles Vince Bell
• Vince Bell's artist bio at the H.A.A.M. (Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians) website
• “Introducing the Vince Bell "Handmade Hardtop Acoustic Dreadnaught Line”: lutier Vince Pawless describes custom-making a guitar for Vince Bell