OKKERVIL RIVER is
Will Sheff: Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Harmonica, Arp and Juno Synthesizers, Realistic Concertmate, Additional Electric Guitar on 3, 5, 7 and 10.
Lauren Gurgiolo: Electric Guitars, Lap Steel.
Patrick Pestorius: Bass, Harmony Vocal on 7.
Justin Sherburn: Piano, Rhodes, Harpischord, Optigan, Glass Harmonica, Wurlitzer, B3, JX3P, Casiotone, Harmonium, and Moog and Sequential Circuits Synthesizers, Second Electric Guitar.
Michael St. Clair: Trombone, Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Dave Smith Synthesizers, Additional Percussion, B3 on 5, Additional Electric Guitar on 10.
Cully Symington: Drums and Percussion.

—AND—

Brian Cassidy: Second Electric Guitar on 3, 8 and 11.
Jonathan Meiburg: Banjo,
Harmony Vocals on 1, 5, 8, 10 and 11.
Zachary Thomas: Mandolin.

—W I T H—

David Boyle: Handclaps. Brian Donohoe: Saxophone.
Josh Johnson: Glass Harmonica. Ben Kalb: Cello.
Matt LeMay: Additional Harmony Vocals on 8.
Chris Mills: Harmony Vocals on 1, 5, 10 and 11.
Clinton Newman: Additional Electric Guitar on 8, Harmony Vocals on 1, 5, 10 and 11.
Crystals furnished by Leah Marino.
Clinton Newman appears courtesy of Bird Of Youth.

THE SILVER GYMNASIUM
Produced by John Agnello. Recorded at Church House Studios in Austin TX by John Agnello and David Boyle. And at Russell Street Studio in Brooklyn NY by John
Agnello, Crystal Snifter in Brooklyn NY by Will Sheff, the Honeyjar in Brooklyn NY by Phil Palazzolo, Cacophony Recorders in Austin TX by John Congleton, and Matt Hubbard Production in Austin TX by Matt Hubbard.

Mixed by John Agnello at Fluxivity, Brooklyn NY. Track 7 mixed at Elmwood Studios, Dallas TX by John Congleton. Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York City.

All songs by Will Sheff, Joundsongs (ASCAP).

Artwork by William Schaff. Map image by William Schaff and Daniel Murphy. Layout by Daniel Murphy, with Robin Hendrickson. Back cover map by Vernon Hood, about 1956, courtesy of the Plainfield Conservation Commission. “Plainfield Village” (1949) woodcut by Fiske Boyd, courtesy of Hillary Sundell. “I and He” by Marion
V. Cuthbert, originally published in Songs of Creation (Women’s Press, 1949). Plainfield Town Song composed by Lucy Ruggles Bishop, 1961, public domain.

—THANKS—
to the families Gurgiolo, Pestorius, Sheff, Sherburn, St. Clair, Symington, Thomas, Meiburg, and Cassidy and Barnard. And to Travis Nelsen and Scott Brackett. And Brian Beattie, John Congleton, Alex Lipsen, Carlos Hernandez, Matt LeMay, Jonathan Meiburg, Chris Mills, Clinton Newman, Phil Palazzolo, Nat Priest, William Schaff, and Erik Wofford. And Dave Godowsky, Jonathan Lethem, Sean Howe, Chris McQueen, Pal Moore, Nancy Norwalk, Tony Romano, and Hillary Sundell. And everyone at ATO Records and Constant Artists. And to C & C Drums, Istanbul Cymbals, and Røde Microphones. And Beth Wawerna, Erica Heidepriem Loml, Megan Barnard, Mike Booher, Scott Coffey and Blair Mastbaum, Johnny Margarita, and Johnny Negroni. And
to Simon Harrold.