Produced by Mike Rinne At Beaird Music Group, Nashville TN
Troy Lancaster - Electric Guitar
Luke Moseley - Keyboards
Andy Ellison - Pedal Steel Guitar
Miles McPherson - Drums, Percussion
Ron Wallace - Backing Vocals
John Krische - Lead Vocals
Mike Rinne - Bass Guitar
Pat McGrath - Acoustic Guitar
Scotty Sanders - Pedal Steel Guitar
Dave Matheson - Backing Vocals
James Miller - Backing Vocals
David Buchanan - Mix and Master Engineer
Rob Lane - Vocals Recording Engineer
Jim DeBlanc - Tracking Recording Engineer
Additional Recording/Mixing of tracks 4 and 7: Dave Matheson at Ivy Street Studio, Toronto ON and Simon Larochette at the Sugar Shack, London, ON
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COVER ART
Anyone who drove the Talbot Line west of Clearville knew the Guyitt house, if not by name, certainly by its haunted presence on the highway. For years we've driven the highway, past the field-stone houses, the farms, the churches and historic graveyards, the lake views and the beaches, but it was the ruined house on the side of the road that captivated us most. Early on in our discovery of the house a song came to me, ‘The Talbot Line’, which imagined a story to explain how the house came to be neglected and in its haunted state. More songs followed, inspired in large part by roaming that part of the world, and always I imagined the ruined house as the image that would define the song collection. And without question I knew the artist who I wanted to render the house in illustration. Scott McKowen is a celebrated artist with an astonishing body of life work. I knew his scratchboard style would be perfect for rendering the Guyitt house, and as fortune would have it, he was immediately captivated by the photographs we shared with him. After several pencil sketches by Scott and numerous conversations a final concept was agreed upon and shortly - after years of me imagining how he might represent the house in his unmistakable style - the cover art landed and spoke fully to my expectations and imaginings. Scott's actual physical ‘scratchboard’ original is shown above in the photo, surrounded by sketches created during the artist process.
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