Careful Confessions

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Careful Confessions
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 20, 2004
2008 (reissue)
Recorded2003
Length49:28
Label Tiny Bear Publishing
Epic Records (2008 reissue)
Producer Gabriel Mann
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles chronology
Careful Confessions
(2004)
Little Voice
(2007)

Careful Confessions is the 2004 independently produced debut studio album by Sara Bareilles. [1] [2] In addition to seven studio tracks, the album features four songs recorded during live performances. Several of the songs on the album were re-recorded to appear on Bareilles' second album, Little Voice, her major label debut. [3] [4]

Contents

The album was recorded and mixed at Asylum Recording Studios in Culver City, California, over roughly a one-month period in 2003. Bareilles produced alongside college friend Gabriel Mann, prolific singer/songwriter, music producer, television and video game music composer, and member of Los Angeles alternative rock band The Rescues. Mann had produced two albums for Awaken, the college a cappella group Bareilles sang in while attending UCLA. [5]

After Bareilles was signed to Epic Records in 2005 and the success of her second and major-label debut Little Voice in 2007, Careful Confessions was reissued in early 2008. [6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Sara Bareilles; track 3 additional composition by Javier Dunn [1] [7]

No.TitleLength
1."Gravity"3:59
2."Undertow"4:42
3."Love On the Rocks"4:18
4."Responsible"4:34
5."One Sweet Love"3:57
6."Fairytale"2:50
7."Come Round Soon"4:51
8."Inside Out" (Live)5:19
9."City" (Live)4:36
10."Red" (Live)4:19
11."My Love" (Live)6:03
Total length:49:28

Personnel

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