A Crash Course in Roses

A Crash Course in Roses
Studio album by Catie Curtis
Released	August 3, 1999
Genre	Folk Rock
Length	52:39
Label	Rykodisc
Producer	Catie Curtis, Ben Wisch
Catie Curtis chronology

A Crash Course in Roses is the fifth studio album by Catie Curtis, released on August 3, 1999 (1999-08-03).

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
New Internationalist	[2]

The album contains numerous love songs, with "Magnolia Street", a song about the realization that one is in love, gaining some radio airplay. While the album did not make the Billboard Music Charts, it was her most successful at that stage.

In addition to the love songs which make up the majority of the album, A Crash Course in Roses also bears two other songs: "What's the Matter", a criticism of her hometown of Saco, Maine for rejecting her when she came out as a lesbian, and "Roses", the story of a soldier conscripted into World War I.

Numerous other singer-songwriters appear in supporting roles on the album, including Mary Chapin Carpenter and Melissa Ferrick.

Track listing

Source: Official site,[3] Last.fm[4]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Gave Me Love"	3:15
2.	"World Don't Owe Me"	3:57
3.	"100 Miles"	5:03
4.	"Fall Away"	3:13
5.	"Wise to the Ways"	4:45
6.	"What's the Matter"	3:18
7.	"I'll Cover You"	4:37
8.	"Burn Your Own House Down"	4:37
9.	"Roses"	4:51
10.	"Look at You Now"	4:08
11.	"Stay up All Night"	3:16
12.	"Magnolia Street"	4:03
13.	"Start Again"	2:44
14.	"Fusco's Song"

Personnel

Catie Curtis – Vocals, producer, Wurlitzer, acoustic guitar, piano
Michael Maxwell – gut string guitar
Hugh McCracken – harmonica
Sammy Merendino – tambourine, drum programming
Catherine Russell – gut string guitar
Ben Wisch – producer, engineer, mixing, Wurlitzer
Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – accordion, sound effects, bass
Jim Ryan – gut string guitar, mandolin
Mark Spencer – electric guitar, slide guitar, National steel guitar, acoustic guitar
Kenny White – gut string guitar, organ, piano
Akira Satake – banjo
Todd Reynolds – violin
Dawn Buckholz – cello, string arrangements
Liz Marshall – gut string guitar
Duke Levine – electric guitar, mandola, omnichord, e-bow, acoustic guitar
Manolo Badrena – conga, percussion
Paul Bryan – djembe, shaker, bass pedals, organ, bass, percussion
Mary Chapin Carpenter – gut string guitar
Billy Conway – drums, snare drums, percussion
Melissa Ferrick – gut string guitar
Jennifer Kimball – gut string guitar
Jim Robeson – engineer
Jana Leon – photography
Steven Jurgensmeyer – design
Bruce MacFarlane – assistant engineer
Crit Harmon – engineer
Kevin Pickering – assistant engineer
Ted Jensen – mastering

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gollark: Implementing biased RNG is surprisingly hard.

gollark: --choice "destroy andrew" "destroy andrew"

gollark: I don't know. You may be conspiring.

gollark: But they might be secretly engaged in the conspiracy to undemote lyricly?

References

Allmusic review
New Internationalist review
"A Crash Course in Roses at official site". Retrieved 24 March 2011.
"A Crash Course in Roses". Last.fm. Retrieved 24 March 2011.

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[1] Allmusic review

[2] New Internationalist review

[3] "A Crash Course in Roses at official site". Retrieved 24 March 2011.

[4] "A Crash Course in Roses". Last.fm. Retrieved 24 March 2011.