Together Alone (Donnie Iris album)

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Together Alone
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Studio album by Donnie Iris and the Cruisers
Released 1999
Genre Rock
Length1:02:54
Label Primary
Producer Mark Avsec
Donnie Iris and the Cruisers chronology
Live! At Nick's Fat City
(1998)
Together Alone
(1999)
20th Century Masters
(2001)

Together Alone is the ninth studio album by American rock singer Donnie Iris, released in 1999. [1]

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Contents

Track listing

  1. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton)
  2. "The Promise" (Hoenes)
  3. "Lay with Me" (Avsec)
  4. "Together Alone" (Avsec)
  5. "You're Holding My Heart in Your Hands" (Avsec)
  6. "Fade Away" (Avsec)
  7. "Ah! Leah!" (acoustic version) (Avsec, Iris)
  8. "I'd Rather Go Blind" (Avsec)
  9. "Holy Love" (Avsec)
  10. "Amazing Grace" (extended version) (Newton)

Personnel

Donnie Iris and the Cruisers

Mark Avsec is an American rock keyboardist / songwriter / producer, and more recently copyright lawyer, who is best known for being a member of Wild Cherry, and also Donnie Iris & the Cruisers since 1979. Avsec co-founded this band, wrote or co-wrote all of the band's music, was its sole lyricist, and produced all of its albums.

Marty Lee Hoenes is an American rock musician who is best known as the lead guitarist for the Donnie Iris and the Cruisers. He is also a freelance artist and designer, having designed many of the band's albums. He currently resides in North Canton, Ohio with his wife and daughter.

Paul David Goll, Jr. also known as Paul Goll is an American rock guitarist who is best known for being a member of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers. When he was 15, he already was playing the bass guitar professionally. Paul has been the band's guitarist since 1994, and first appeared on the live album Live! At Nick's Fat City in 1998. Goll is the son of the Paul D. Goll, Sr. Goll currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina and has been married to Elizabeth Jane Elliot since 2012. Goll currently works at Mission Hospitals Olson Huff Center for children.

Guest performers

Scott Blasey is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist for the Clarks, a position he has held since the band's inception in the mid-1980s. Aside from the Clarks, he also has a successful solo career, and three studio albums have been credited to him.

The Clarks are an American rock band from the Pittsburgh region, originating at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Over the course of thirty-plus years, they have produced eleven studio albums, two live albums, a compilation album, an EP, and four solo releases, selling near a quarter of a million copies.

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