Ballad of the Broken Seas is an album by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, their first collaboration. It made the shortlist for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was one of NME's top one hundred albums of the decade.
The Mercury nomination provoked some criticism, as Lanegan was American and the award is for British and Irish artists only. However, Campbell wrote most of the tracks and produced the album. Campbell had written the music and some of the lyrics before sending it to Lanegan.
Track listing
Personnel
- Mark Lanegan - vocals
- Isobel Campbell - vocals, piano, cello, harpsichord, tubular bells, glockenspiel
- Alyn Cosker - drums
- Jim McCulloch - guitars
- Ross Hamilton - double bass (1,6-8), bass guitar (4,10,12)
- David Robertson - bodhran (1), percussion (8), congas (9)
- Bill Wells - bass guitar (2,3), piano (4), vibraphone (8)
- John McCusker - solo violin (4)
- Joshua Blanchard - acoustic guitar (5)
- Eddi Nappi - bass guitar (5)
- Norm Block - drums (5)
- Geoff Allen - whip (6)
- Claire Campbell - violin (8)
- Helen Thompson - harp (10)
- Chris Geddes - Hammond organ (12)
- Paul Leonard Morgan - string arrangements (3-5,9-10)
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