Picture Perfect Morning is the solo debut album by the American singer/songwriter Edie Brickell, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music). The video for Good Times was included as part of the multimedia samples included on Microsoft's Windows 95 Companion CD-ROM.

Personnel

*Edie Brickell - acoustic guitar, guitar, vocals

*Butch Amiot - bass

*Mingo Araujo - percussion

*Cyro Baptista - percussion

*Michael Bearden - synthesizer

*Crusher Bennett - percussion

*Herb Besson - trombone

*Phyllis Bethel - background vocals

*Michael Brecker - ewi

*David Bromberg - guitar, slide guitar

*John Bush - triangle

*Larry Campbell - guitar, pedal steel, violin

*Vivian Cherry - background vocals

*Victor Cook - background vocals

*Richard Crooks - drums

*Michael Davis - trombone

*Joel Diamond - organ

*Bill Dillon - guitar, electric guitar

*The Dixie Cups - background vocals

*Dr. John - synthesizer, piano

*Jerry Douglas - dobro

*Charles Elam III - background vocals

*Steve Gadd - drums

*Nelson Gonzalez - guitar

*Willie Green - drums

*Tony Hall - bass

*Brad Houser - bass

*Bashiri Johnson - percussion, conga

*Bakithi Khumalo - bass

*Dennis King - background vocals

*Skip LaPlante - percussion

*Maurice Lauchner - background vocals

*John Leventhal - acoustic guitar, guitar

*Terry Manuel - background vocals

*Madeleine Yayodele Nelson - background vocals, chekere

*Art Neville - organ, keyboard

*Cyril Neville - percussion

*Keith O'Quinn - trombone

*Shawn Pelton - drums

*Leon Pendarvis - synthesizer

*James Pugh - trombone

*Steve Riley - accordion

*Dave Samuels - vibraphone

*Paul Simon - acoustic guitar, guitar

*Brian Stoltz - guitar, electric guitar

*Barry White - voices

*Kenny Withrow - guitar, electric guitar

Production

*Producers: David Bromberg, Roy Halee, Paul Simon

*Engineers: David Bromberg, Malcolm Burn, Roy Halee, Andy Smith

*Assistant engineer: Dave Wittman

*Mastering: Greg Calbi

*Session coordinators: Jimmy Corona, Marc Silag

*Project coordinator: Dolores Lusitana

*Horn arrangements: Shari Feder

*Art direction: Tom Zutaut

*Photography: Michael Halsband, Vaughn Hazell, Kevin Mazur

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

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Category:1994 albums

Category:Debut albums

Category:Albums produced by Roy Halee

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Artist/Band Information

Edie Arlisa Brickell (born March 10, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.

Life and career

Brickell was born in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas. She attended high school at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

in Dallas. She attended Southern Methodist University for a year and a half. In 1985, she made the decision one night in a bar to get up on stage with a local folk rock group, New Bohemians. She would join the band as lead singer. After the band was signed to a recording contract, the label changed the group's name to Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Their 1988 debut album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars became a critical and commercial success, with the big hit, "What I Am." The band's follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog (1990), did not fare as well.

As a solo artist, Brickell released Picture Perfect Morning (1994) and Volcano (2003). In 2006 she reunited with some of the original members of New Bohemians and they released the album Stranger Things.

In late 2007, Brickell and her stepson Harper Simon formed the band The Heavy Circles. They released a single on iTunes entitled "Hands On." The Heavy Circles released a debut album on February 12, 2008, featuring Sean Lennon, Martha Wainwright, and members of Cibo Matto.

In 2010, Brickell became a founding member of new band The Gaddabouts, consisting of Steve Gadd - drums, Edie Brickell - lead vocal, guitar, Andy Fairweather Low - electric & acoustic guitars, background vocals, Pino Palladino - bass, guitar, also featuring Dan Block, Ronnie Cuber, Joey DeFrancesco, Gil Goldstein, Marcus Rojas.http://www.thegaddabouts.com/the-band/

Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film, Born on the Fourth of July. Her version of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is featured on the film's soundtrack. She also sang a cover version of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side in the 1990 film Flashback. Her "Good Times" video was included as part of the multimedia samples on the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM.

Her father, Eddie Brickell, "the Fort Worth Southpaw", was posthumously inducted into the Texas State Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 1988.

Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon on May 30, 1992.

Brickell was performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live on December 8, 1990 when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. "He made me mess the song up when I looked at him," she said with a smile. "We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'"

Discography

*It's Like This... (1986)

*Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988) US #4, 2x platinum

*Ghost of a Dog (1990)

*Picture Perfect Morning (1994)

*The Live Montauk Sessions (2000)

*The Ultimate Collection (2002)

*Volcano (2003)

*Stranger Things (2006)

*The Heavy Circles (2008)

*Edie Brickell (2011)

*The Gaddabouts (2011)

Other contributions

*Microsoft Windows 95 (1995) - "Good Times" Video

*WFUV: City Folk Live VII (2004) - "Take a Walk"

References