One Step Closer (The String Cheese Incident album)

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ReleasedJune 28, 2005
Length53:12
Label SCI Fidelity
Producer The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident chronology
Untying the Not
(2003)
One Step Closer
(2005)
Song in My Head
(2014)
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One Step Closer is the seventh release and fifth studio album of Colorado-based jam band, The String Cheese Incident. Released in June 2005, and containing thirteen original tracks with guest songwriting collaborations, the album was produced by Malcolm Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado. One Step Closer was a return to the more roots-based music of earlier String Cheese Incident fare, while still retaining some of the pop sensibility of previous studio albums. It was also the first album to feature new member Jason Hann.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Give Me the Love" John Perry Barlow, Malcolm Burn, Michael Kang 3:33
2."Sometimes a River" Keith Moseley, Todd Sheaffer5:20
3."Big Compromise"Jim Lauderdale, Bill Nershi4:26
4."Until the Music's Over"Malcolm Burn, Keith Moseley, Todd Sheaffer4:48
5."Silence in Your Head"Malcolm Burn, Kyle Hollingsworth 3:40
6."Farther"Jim Lauderdale, Bill Nershi4:00
7."Drive"John Perry Barlow, Kyle Hollingsworth, Michael Kang3:53
8."Betray the Dark"Michael Kang2:28
9."45th of November"Kyle Hollingsworth, Robert Hunter 4:26
10."One Step Closer"Bill Nershi3:30
11."Rainbow Serpent"Ina Grigorova, Michael Travis 3:57
12."Swampy Waters"Ina Grigorova, Michael Travis4:59
13."Brand New Start"Jim Lauderdale, Keith Moseley4:12
Total length:53:12


*Bonus Material - Bonus 30 Minute DVD Documentary - The Big Compromise

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The String Cheese Incident

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