Coke Machine Glow

Personnel includes: Gordon Downie (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Julie Doiron (vocals, trumpet, piano); Josh Finlayson (acoustic guitar); Dale Moringstar (electric guitar, piano, organ); Travis Good (fiddle); Jaro Czerwinec (accordion); Andy Maize (trumpet); Kevin Hearn (piano, keyboards, bells); Jose Contreras (organ); Steven Drake (bass); Dave Clark, Don Kerr (drums).Producers include: Gordon Downie, Josh Finlayson, Steven Drake.Recorded from May 2-12, 2000.This sprawling collection of lush and often pretty numbers is the work of Gordon Downie -- lead singer for the Tragically Hip. Fans of the Hip's classic rock will undoubtedly be left scratching their heads at this album that's more country than rock, and more jazzy than poppy. The bold statements of Gordon Downie's rock heritage have been abandoned in pursuit of the subtle and the subdued. The instrumentation on this record owes more to vaudeville than to Woodstock. Loose production across the board says that these are