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Michaela Anne

Bright Lights and the Fame

Release date: May 13, 2016
Label: Kingswood Records

Bright Lights and the Fame 

Michaela Anne 

1. Living Without You
2. If Only
3. Bright Lights and the Fame
4. Everything I Couldn’t Be
5. Won’t Go Down
6. Worrying Mind
7. Easier Than Leaving
8. Luisa
9. What Good Is Water
10.Liquor Up
11. Stars

 

CREDITS 

Produced by Dan Knobler
Recorded by Sean O'Brien at Farmland Studios in Nashville, TN
Mixing and additional recording by Dan Knobler at Goosehead Palace in Nashville, TN
Mastered by Alan Silverman 

Vocals & acoustic guitar: Michaela Anne
Electric/acoustic/12 string/baritone guitars, banjo, organ (Worrying Mind, What Good is Water), vibes - Dan Knobler
Pedal steel & dobro - Philip Sterk
Drums & percussion, mandolin - Aaron Shafer-Haiss
Bass - Michael Rinne
Additional musicians:
Piano, organ, rhodes - Kai Welch
Fiddle, violin, string arrangements - Russell Durham 

Cello - Emily Nelson
Banjo (Worrying Mind) - Noam Pikelny
Acoustic Guitar (Where Will I Be Found) - Kenneth Pattengale 

Rodney Crowell - harmony vocals (Luisa)
Harmony vocals - Kristin Weber, Erin Rae McCaskle, Adriel Denae (Luisa, Worrying Mind), Cory Chisel (Easier Than Leaving, Worrying Mind), Jon Seale (What Good is Water), Kenneth Pattengale (Where Will I Be Found) 

All songs written and performed by Michaela Anne, BMI except Everything I Couldn't Be & Won't Go Down (Michaela Anne & Dave Brainard, ASCAP), Easier Than Leaving (Michaela Anne & Mary Bragg, ), Luisa (Michaela Anne & Kristin Andreassen (Yellowcar Music/ASCAP), What Good Is Water (Michaela Anne & Maya DeVitry) 

Michaela’s Special Thanks:
The musicians who give my music life.
My family: Aaron Shafer-Haiss, Mom, Dad, Joe, Robin Shafer and Art Haiss, Leroy, Nola and my extended clan.
To Dan Knobler, Carrie Crowell, Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Rhine, Stephanie Edwards, Brad Paul, Todd Kwait, Rob Stegman, Dave Brainard, Mary Bragg, Krisitn Andreassen, Maya DeVitry.
To everyone who has ever listened to my music, come to a show, and made this possible. 

Dan’s Special thanks: Carrie Crowell, Gus & Millie, Rodney & Claudia, Steuart Smith, Scotty Murray