Safe Away

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Safe Away
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Studio album by Denison Witmer
Released 1998
Recorded late 1997
Genre Indie pop
Label Independently released
Producer Don Peris
Denison Witmer chronology
My Luck, My Love
(1995) My Luck, My Love1995
Safe Away
(1998)
River Bends EP
(1999) River Bends EP1999
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Safe Away is an album by Denison Witmer. It was self-released in 1998, and re-released on the Burnt Toast Vinyl label on January 16, 2002.

Denison Witmer American singer-songwriter

Denison Witmer is a singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His first release, in 1995, was a cassette titled My Luck, My Love. He has since released six studio LPs; two live albums, a cover album (Recovered); three EPs; and an LP with The River Bends—a side project consisting of members of the Philadelphia-based alt-country band One Star Hotel. Witmer's 2005 album, Are You A Dreamer?, produced by Don Peris of The Innocence Mission and featuring Sufjan Stevens, received acclaim, including positive reviews from Pitchfork Media and Entertainment Weekly. Witmer and Stevens appeared on Rosie Thomas's 2007 album These Friends of Mine, an album which included Rosie Thomas' version of Paper Doll, a track originally written and recorded by Witmer. Witmer toured with Rosie Thomas in support of that album in venues across the US and Europe.

Burnt Toast Vinyl is an independent record label based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Track listing

  1. "Steven" - 2:28
  2. "Breathe in This Life" - 3:09
  3. "Over My Head" - 2:48
  4. "This and That" - 1:57
  5. "Closer to the Sun" - 3:15
  6. "What Will Stay?" - 2:17
  7. "Miles" - 2:26
  8. "Dain" - 3:47
  9. "Los Angeles" - 2:14
  10. "Around Everything" - 3:20
  11. "I Would Call You Now" -3:43
  12. "Sarah's Bridge" - 0:58
  13. "I Won't Leave" - 3:35

The re-release of Safe Away on Burnt Toast Vinyl includes three bonus tracks:

  1. "Broken" - 3:20
  2. "Say You'll Stick Around" - 4:46
  3. "Meant to Be" - 6:36

Personnel

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