This Hungry Life
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This Hungry Life is the fourth solo album
by Tanya Donelly
, released in 2006. The album was recorded live in front of an audience at a closed hotel in Bellows Falls, Vermont
in August 2004.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly
Tanya Donelly is an American Grammy-nominated singer songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh. She then went on to work in The Breeders and Belly in the 1990s...
, released in 2006. The album was recorded live in front of an audience at a closed hotel in Bellows Falls, Vermont
Bellows Falls, Vermont
Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,165 at the 2000 census...
in August 2004.
Track listing
All songs by Tanya Donelly, except where noted- "New England" – 4:01
- "World on Fire" – 3:39
- "Kundalini Slide" (Donelly, Dean Fisher) – 4:18
- "This Hungry Life" – 6:13
- "Littlewing" – 4:01
- "To the Lighthouse" – 2:38
- "Invisible One" – 4:11
- "Days of Grace" (Donelly, Dean Fisher) – 4:32
- "Long Long Long" (George HarrisonGeorge HarrisonGeorge Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
) – 4:58 - "River Girls" (Donelly, Dean Fisher) – 3:58
Personnel
- Tanya Donelly – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Dean Fisher – guitars
- Rich Gilbert – pedal steel, guitar
- Joan WasserJoan WasserJoan Wasser is a violinist and singer/songwriter in the indie rock world. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders. She has released three albums as a singer songwriter, the 2006 Real Life the 2008 To Survive and the 2011 The Deep Field...
– violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
, violaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average... - Joe McMahon – upright bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
- Arthur Johnson – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Bill Janovitz – vocals
Production
- Engineer: Brian Brown
- Edited by: Dean Fisher and Brian Brown
- Mixing: Paul Kolderie
- Mixing engineer: Adam Taylor
- Photography: Richard Donelly and Christopher Donelly
- Artwork: Hamilton Hughes Design