Brushfire Fairytales

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Brushfire Fairytales
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Studio album by
Jack Johnson
ReleasedFebruary 1, 2001 [1]
RecordedDecember 2000
Genre Folk rock
Length45:53
Label Everloving, Columbia
Producer JP Plunier
Jack Johnson chronology
Brushfire Fairytales
(2001)		 On and On
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Brushfire Fairytales is the debut album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. It was released in 2001 through Enjoy Records, a label that was later renamed Everloving Recordings. [3]

Contents

The album's primary musicians are Johnson (vocals/guitars/piano), Adam Topol (drums/percussion) and Merlo Podlewski (bass). It was produced by J. P. Plunier, recorded and mixed by Todd Burke, with assistant engineers Andrew Alekel & Chad Essig. It was recorded near Hollywood and Vine just north of 6400 Sunset at 1520 N Cahuenga in Los Angeles at Grandmaster Recorders (formerly Bijou Studios in Hollywood), King Sound, and mastered by Dave Collins. [4] Guests include Tommy Jordan (steel drums on "Flake") and Ben Harper (slide guitar on "Flake"). [5] The single "Flake" was Jack Johnson's first. [5]

In a retrospective review by The Quietus , reviewer David Bennun credits Brushfire Fairytales with helping to popularize a strain of "sensitive [and] authentic... indie-folk" that would later lead to artists such as Ed Sheeran, Passenger, and Mumford & Sons. [6]

Track listing

All songs written by Jack Johnson.

  1. "Inaudible Melodies" – 3:35
  2. "Middle Man" – 3:14
  3. "Posters" – 3:13
  4. "Sexy Plexi" – 2:07
  5. "Flake" – 4:40
  6. "Bubble Toes" – 3:56
  7. "Fortunate Fool" – 3:48
  8. "The News" – 2:26
  9. "Drink the Water" – 3:21
  10. "Mudfootball" (for Moe Lerner) – 3:03
  11. "F-Stop Blues" – 3:10
  12. "Losing Hope" – 3:52
  13. "It's All Understood" – 5:28

Japan bonus track

  2. "Inaudible Melodies" (live) [7] – 3:27

UK bonus tracks

  2. "Flake" (live) – 4:29
  3. "Inaudible Melodies" (live) – 3:27

Personnel

Additional musicians

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [19] 3× Platinum210,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [20] 2× Platinum200,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [21] 3× Platinum45,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [22] Platinum300,000‡
United States (RIAA) [23] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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