Melodrama (Joel Kroeker album)

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Melodrama
Joel-Kroeker-melodrama.jpg
Studio album by
Released2004
Recorded2004
Label True North
Producer Danny Greenspoon
Joel Kroeker chronology
Naive Bohemian
(1999)
Melodrama
(2004)
Closer to the Flame
(2007)

Melodrama is the first studio album by Joel Kroeker and the second of his albums after his 1999 independent release CD Naive Bohemian. The album was released in 2004 on True North Records and was produced by Danny Greenspoon. It was registered at the "Canterbury Sound" in Toronto, Ontario, in Canada.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Endings" (3:43)
  2. "The Wind" (3:43)
  3. "Goodbye Jane" (3:18)
  4. "Soft" (4:16)
  5. "Paradise" (3:25)
  6. "Song For a Person on a Bridge" (4:38)
  7. "The Smallest Room" (3:52)
  8. "Your Painted Face" (3:02)
  9. "Simple" (4:48)
  10. "Naked Beauty" (3:11)
  11. "With Me" (3:20)
  12. "Blue Moon Lounge" (3:48)

Single from the album

Personnel

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