We Sing and Play
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We Sing and Play is the title of an E.P.
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Baboon
Baboon (band)
Baboon is a rock band originally from Denton, Texas.The band formed in 1991. Their fourth studio album, titled Baboon, was released on October 10, 2006.Baboon appeared on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger titled "Hall of Fame" in 1996...

. It was self-released in 1999. Due to the band's disenchantment with their former record label (Wind-Up
Wind-Up Records
Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, following his 1996 purchase of Grass Records. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world...

), they decided to release this disc without the support of a label. The copyright notice on the back of the disc reads "No label affiliation here, just rock band."

Track listing

  1. "Rise" - 2:49
  2. "Lushlife" - 2:54
  3. "Angels" - 5:00
  4. "Endlessly" - 3:49
  5. "Closer" - 3:56
  6. "012 seconds" - 5:37
  7. "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (hidden track, performed by Steven Barnett's grandmother) - 0:52


All songs by Baboon.

Personnel

  • Andrew Huffstetler - vocals
    Singing
    Singing 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...

    , trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

  • Mike Rudnicki - guitar
    Guitar
    The 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...

    , backing vocals
  • Steven Barnett - drums
    Drum kit
    A 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 ....

  • Mark Hughes - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Mark Reznicek - additional snare drum
    Snare drum
    The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...

     (on "Rise" and "012 seconds")
  • John "Corn Mo" Cunningham - rock'n'roll piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

     (on "Lushlife")
  • Kari Luna - organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

     (on "Closer" and "Endlessly")
  • James Henderson - mellotron
    Mellotron
    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

    (on "Angels")
  • Dan Barnett - band photograph
  • Ed Sherman - layout
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