Blackberry Belle

Blackberry Belle
One Little Indian
Producer	Mike Napolitano, Mathias Schneeberger, Greg Dulli
The Twilight Singers chronology
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (EP) (2003) Blackberry Belle (2003) She Loves You (2004)
Singles from Blackberry Belle
"Teenage Wristband" / "The Killer" Released: November 10, 2003 "Feathers" / "Number Nine" Released: January 26, 2004 "Papillon" Released: August 2, 2004 (promo only)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork Media	(7.7/10)[3]

Blackberry Belle is the second full-length album released by

(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.

1. "Martin Eden" – 3:39
2. "Esta noche" – 4:33 (Dulli, Schneeberger)
3. "Teenage Wristband" – 3:34
4. "St. Gregory" – 3:28 (Dulli, Tobias)
5. "The Killer" – 4:28 (Dulli, Phillips)
6. "Decatur St." – 4:10
7. "Papillon" – 4:24
8. "Follow You Down" – 2:24
9. "Feathers" – 4:02
10. "Fat City (Slight Return)" – 3:25
11. "Number Nine" – 6:32
12. "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)
• 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)
• lapsteel
  (5)

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