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Blackberry Belle

Field	Value
name	Blackberry Belle
type	Album
artist	The Twilight Singers
cover	blackberrybelle.jpg
released	October 14, 2003
recorded	Los Angeles, New Orleans and Memphis
genre	Alternative rock, indie rock
length	44:39
label	One Little Indian
producer	Mike Napolitano, Mathias Schneeberger, Greg Dulli
prev_title	Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (EP)
prev_year	2003
next_title	She Loves You
next_year	2004
misc	{{Singles
name	Blackberry Belle
type	studio
single1	Teenage Wristband" / "The Killer
single1date	November 10, 2003
single2	Feathers" / "Number Nine
single2date	January 26, 2004
single3	Papillon
single3date	August 2, 2004 (promo only)

Blackberry Belle is the second full-length album released by The Twilight Singers. It was released by One Little Indian Records on October 14, 2003, and features guest appearances by Mathias Schneeberger, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Stanton Moore, Petra Haden, Kamasi Washington and Mark Lanegan. The album is a tribute to director Ted Demme, a close friend of Greg Dulli's who died of a heart attack while playing a game of basketball in January 2002. Dulli had been working on another project entitled Amber Headlights (which would later see the light of day in 2005), but abandoned those sessions due to Demme's death. The recordings which followed, fueled in part by the memory of Demme, resulted in Blackberry Belle.

The album was released on vinyl over two years after the initial CD release. Pressed on white vinyl, the LP contained an extra track "Run, Rabbit Run". This is a demo version featuring Greg Dulli on piano. He was known to perform a version of this song on the last The Afghan Whigs tour.

The Twilight Singers performed the album in its entirety for the first and only time in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall on September 17, 2011, with special guests Mark Lanegan, Petra Haden and Dave Catching joining the group on stage.

Track listing

All songs written by Greg Dulli except as noted.

"Martin Eden" – 3:39
"Esta noche" – 4:33 (Dulli, Schneeberger)
"Teenage Wristband" – 3:34
"St. Gregory" – 3:28 (Dulli, Tobias)
"The Killer" – 4:28 (Dulli, Phillips)
"Decatur St." – 4:10
"Papillon" – 4:24
"Follow You Down" – 2:24
"Feathers" – 4:02
"Fat City (Slight Return)" – 3:25
"Number Nine" – 6:32
"Run, Rabbit Run" (vinyl release only)

Personnel

Greg Dulli – vocals (all songs), piano (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10), guitar (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11), keyboards (4, 9), rhodes (5, 8), mellotron (5, 6, 7, 10), drums (10)
Amay - vocals (9)
Nikki Crawford - vocals (8)
Richard Ford - pedal steel (11)
Scott Ford - bass (1, 2, 7)
Chris Gray - trumpet (2)
Petra Haden - vocals (3, 11), violins (11)
Matt Hergert - drums (5)
Hoss - drums (3, 11)
Apollonia Kotero - vocals (3, 10)
Josh Lampkins - trombone (2)
Mark Lanegan - vocals (11)
Stanton Moore - drums (9)
Steve Myers - vocals (3)
Mike Napolitano - guitar (6), bass (9)
Ashlie Philastre - the clap (9)
Chris Phillips - synth loop (5), drums (5, 6)
Susan Phillips - the clap (9)
Mathias Schneeberger - guitar (1, 2, 5), rhodes (1, 2), mellotron (5), piano (7, 9), clavinet (7, 9, 10)
Jon Skibic - guitars (2, 7, 10, 11), vocals (7), banjo (7)
Rick Steff - clavinet (6), organ (11)
Michael Sullivan - bass (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11)
Jesse Tobias - e-bow (3), guitar (4)
Kamasi Washington - saxophone (2)
Greg Wieczorek - drums (2, 4, 6, 10), percussion (4, 10), vocals (6)
Brian Young - drums (1, 7)
Alvin Youngblood Hart - lapsteel (5)

References

{{AllMusic
[http://www.musicemissions.com/artists/albums/index.php?album_id=2621 Music Emissions - review]
[http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8211-blackberry-belle/ Pitchfork Media - review] Hartley Goldstein, January 14, 2004

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