Parador Alternate Takes
Release Date: 2006
Track List & Lyrics
Click on song title for lyricsThis Is Everything (alternate)
Too Quick To Love (alternate)
Stayin’ Home Again (alternate)
Erase Me (alternate)
Altitudes (alternate)
Joke (alternate)
Through Any Window (alternate)
Drink Up (alternate)
Who Blew Out The Sun? (alternate)
Parador (alternate)
Album Credits
Produced by: Wisely
except 8 by Linus of Hollywood & Wisely and 3 by Dorian Crozier & Wisely
Mastered by: Ryan Perez-Daple
Photography: Orrin Anderson
Design: Pete Rosenzweig for worknonwork
All songs by William J Wisely Jr (©2005.Wisely Publishers ASCAP) except add cowriters: Tracy McMillan (©2005.Wisely Publishers ASCAP/Super Joe Music ASCAP)1, Rebecca Elizabeth Lord (©2005.Wisely Publishers ASCAP/Becky Buckskin ASCAP)2,10, James Benno Nelson (©2005.Wisely Publishers ASCAP/National Dynamite Music ASCAP)3, Andras Jones (©2005.Wisely Publishers ASCAP/Previous Music ASCAP)6,8
Additional Musicians:
Vocals: Tracy McMillan 1, Rebecca Lord 10
Guitar: Dorian Crozier 3, Linus of Hollywood 8, Paul Gilbert 8
Bass: John Fields 3, Bruce Witkin 8
Keys: Dorian Crozier 3, Linus of Hollywood 8
Drums/Percussion: Dorian Crozier 3, Adam Marcello & Peter Anderson 8
Think of it as PARADOR’s fraternal twin– the same, but different and not to be missed. Twisted arrangements, startling interpretations, alternate lyrics and beautiful artwork compliment the main release.
You crazy mofo, I love you for releasing the ALTERNATE TAKES. The tenderness, the fret buzz, it’s back and everything.
Identity Crisis: Album By Committee
Hollywood Hills, by Orrin Anderson, 2006
In 2003, in a crazed burst of artistic uncertainty while preparing to record PARADOR, I circulated a CD-R of demos to 22 friends. Unable to decide which songs to focus on for the next album, I hoped that peoples’ preferences would bring me clarity. Based on their opinions, I created a perceptual map to illustrate trends. Unfortunately, pretty much everyone liked different songs, and none of them were particularly enthralled with the lack of coherance across the entire body of work. The experiment failed. When Linus of Hollywood swooped in to produce PARADOR, I would leave it to him to choose which songs to record.
We worked on the record for the better part of two years, squeezing it in between our other projects and tours. We wrapped in late 2005, and only after sitting with the final mixes for a while did I realize that those old demos I’d circulated illuminated our process in making the PARADOR. So, I decided to release both albums on the same date, with the same song list––but in wildly different versions.
PARADOR ALTERNATE TAKES is not yet digitally available––being shot through with stolen samples that I’ll be replacing.
Co-writers include: Andy Dick, Andras Jones, Tracy McMillan, Rebecca Lord, Linus of Hollywood and Benno Nelson.