This Must Be Life ('cause I don't see The Reaper)

Released January 2017

The inaugural album by The Burning World

Liner Notes

1. What Did You Expect?
2. The Lord Of Misrule
3. Falling
4. A Magical Midsummer’s Night
5. How To Say Goodbye
6. Widow’s Window
       Wi’ Ye No Come Back Tae Me?
       Secret Agent Widow
       Balloon Man
       Many Colours
7. You’re Not
8. The Uneventful Day
9. The King Of An Tir Is Dying
10. This Must Be Life
       (’cause I don’t see The Reaper)
Inter(continentalballisticmissile)lude
       The Hammer Of The Gods
       Death’s Merry Dance
       Any Day
11. Speed Me Up, Slow Me Down

Special thanks go to Sacha Fassaert, who opened his studio to me and spent many afternoons helping me record this album.
Thanks to the many musicians who played on this album, especially those pals who donated their time and talents, and particularly Sacha and Regan, who played on almost every track.

Gord D. Birtch - bass guitar, backing vocals
Miles Black - piano
Fraser Blackley - bodhran
Trudi Diening - backing vocals
Allan Dionne - bodhran
Edwin Dolinski - piano, organ
Sacha Fassaert - electric guitar, bass & fretless bass guitar, percussion
Sara Fitzpatrick - violin
Regan Haydu - drum kit
Scott Jacks - bass guitar, piano
Anna Lumière - accordion
Tim Niebergall - dumbek
Ross Powell - vocals, guitars, EWI, sequencing, percussion, flutes
Nancy Powell - backing vocals
Skyler Powell - vocals
Wayne Slingerland - piano, organ, harpsichord
David j. Taylor - backing vocals, guitars, percussion, keys

Engineered by Ross Powell at Arcadian Studios
and by Sacha Fassaert at The Coast Enclave Studio
Mixed and Mastered by David j. Taylor at The Purple House Studio
Produced by Ross Powell
All music and lyrics by Ross W. Powell

The Burning World Liner Notes