Trancas is an LP

LP album

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 released in 1984 by John Stewart

John Stewart (musician)

John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with The Kingston Trio and as the songwriter of The Monkees' #1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own #5 hit "Gold", among several hundred original...

, former members of the Kingston Trio. This album is produced by Stewart and he also plays all instruments except for a set of electronic Oberheim DMX

Oberheim DMX

The DMX is a programmable digital drum machine introduced in 1981 by Oberheim Electronics.The Oberheim DMX was the second digital drum computer ever to be sold to the public as a product, following the Linn LM-1 in 1980...

 drums.

The album was reissued on CD in 1988 with two extra tracks recorded in April 1988.

Track listing

All compositions by John Stewart

John Stewart (musician)

John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with The Kingston Trio and as the songwriter of The Monkees' #1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own #5 hit "Gold", among several hundred original...

, except where indicated.

• Side one

1. "It Ain't the Gold" – 2:57
2. "Reasons to Rise" – 3:29
3. "Pilots in Blue" – 3:16
4. "Chasing Down the Rain" – 3:12
5. "'Til the Lights Come Home" – 2:46
   • Side two
6. "Bringing Down the Moon" – 3:03
7. "All the Lights" – 3:26
8. "Rocky Top" (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
   Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
   Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...
   
   ) – 2:32
9. "The American Way" – 4:08
10. "The Chosen" – 3:37

Personnel

• John Stewart
  John Stewart (musician)
  John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with The Kingston Trio and as the songwriter of The Monkees' #1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own #5 hit "Gold", among several hundred original...
  
   - vocals, all instruments
• Buffy Ford Stewart - background vocals
• Chuck McDermott - background vocals
• Teresa Tate - background vocals
• Nick Reynolds
  Nick Reynolds
  Nick Reynolds was an American folk musician and recording artist. Reynolds was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio, whose largely folk-based material captured international attention during the late fifties and early sixties.- Early life :Growing up in Coronado, California, his...
  
   - background vocals

Additional personnel

• John Stewart
  John Stewart (musician)
  John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with The Kingston Trio and as the songwriter of The Monkees' #1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own #5 hit "Gold", among several hundred original...
  
   - producer
• Carla Fredricks - engineer
• Fred Koch - second engineer
• Henry Diltz
  Henry Diltz
  Henry Stanford Diltz is a folk musician and photographer, who has been active since the 1960s....
  
  - photography