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Wild Seed – Wild Flower is the debut full-length album by Dionne Farris

Dionne Farris

Dionne Farris is an American female R&B/soul musician who sang on three songs with the hip hop group Arrested Development...

, which she recorded after singing the song Tennessee
Tennessee (Arrested Development song)
"Tennessee" is the title of a number-one R&B single by alternative hip hop group, Arrested Development, from their album 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of.... The song contains a sample of Prince's "Alphabet St.". The music video for the song was directed by Milčo Mančevski and shot in...

by the alternative rap group Arrested Development. The lead single, "I Know

I Know (Dionne Farris song)

"I Know" is a 1995 song recorded by American R&B singer Dionne Farris. It was the first single from her debut album Wild Seed, Wild Flower and was released in March 1995. It achieved a moderate success on the charts, peaking at #41 in UK, but became a top ten hit in New Zealand and in the U.S....

" (which allmusic's Tom Demalon called "percolating and infectious"), peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

in 1995.

Track listing

"I Know
I Know (Dionne Farris song)
"I Know" is a 1995 song recorded by American R&B singer Dionne Farris. It was the first single from her debut album Wild Seed, Wild Flower and was released in March 1995. It achieved a moderate success on the charts, peaking at #41 in UK, but became a top ten hit in New Zealand and in the U.S....

" (Milton Davis, William Duval) 3:49
"Reality" (Farris, Billy Fields, Skitch Lovett) 4:42
"Stop To Think" (Farris, Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...

) 5:29
"Passion" (Farris, Fields, Lovett) 5:44
"Food For Thought" (Farris, David Harris) 6:35
"Now Or Later" (Farris, Fields, Lovett) 5:19
"Don't Ever Touch Me (Again)" (Farris, Harris) 4:27
"11th Hour" (Farris, David Frank) 4:46
"Water" (Dionne Farris, Billy Fields) 4:06
"Blackbird
Blackbird (song)
"Blackbird" is a Beatles song from the double-disc album The Beatles . Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney.-Origins:...

" (Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

, McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

) 3:08
"Old Ladies" (discussion of "Blackbird") 0:27
"Human" (Farris) 3:04
"Find Your Way" (Farris, Tim Heintz, Randy Jackson) 5:44
"The Audition" (skit) 1:38
"I Know" (NY Reprise Mix) (Davis, Duval) 3:49

Personnel

Dionne Farris: Main Vocals, Vocal Arrangements
Paul Barrere
Paul Barrere
Paul Barrere is a current member of the band Little Feat, having joined the band in 1974...

(slide
Slide guitar
Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

), Bruce Gaitsch
Bruce Gaitsch
Bruce R. Gaitsch is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is best known for working with notable musicians such as Richard Marx, Chicago, Peter Cetera, Madonna, Agnetha Fältskog and many others as a session musician and songwriter...

, Skitch Lovette, Tony Ruffin: Guitars
David Harris: Guitars, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming, Vocal Backing
Billy Fields, David Frank, Tim Heintz, David Kahne
David Kahne
David Kahne is an American record producer. Kahne started his musical career as a working musician and then became notable for his role as in-house producer and engineer at 415 Records, the first American new wave music label, and for his subsequent roles as Vice President of A&R at Columbia...

, Carl Young: Keyboards
Steve Twyman: Organ
Milton Davis, Randy Jackson, Lonnie Marshall: Bass
Anthony Johnson, Ju Ju House: Drums
John Mitchell: Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming
Pete Escovedo
Pete Escovedo
Peter "Pete" Michael Escovedo is a Mexican-American musician percussionist.-Biography:With his two brothers, Pete formed Escovedo Bros Latin Jazz Sextet, before Santana hired Pete and Coke Escovedo for his group.He led the 14-24 piece Latin Big band Azteca.Father to musician Sheila Escovedo, aka...

, Jeff Haynes: Percussion
Joel Derouin: Violin
Violin
The 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....
Suzie Katayama: Cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
Russell Mullen: Trumpet
Leesa Richards, Terry Shelton: Vocal Backing
String Arranged By Dionne Farris

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