Sunshine Baby by Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade

Sunshine Baby, Jessica Rhaye’s second album with The Ramshackle Parade, the New Brunswick-based singer/songwriter expands her reach as a lyricist and vocalist with a set of alternately personal and observational songs that manage to be incredibly intimate and cinematic in scope simultaneously. While Rhaye illuminates the darker corners of her world on some tracks, the album’s lead single and title track makes it clear she’s never lost sight of the possibility for redemption and hope. The result is a beautiful and powerful album – one that telegraphs the joy and depth of connection Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade have found in working together in equal measure.

Tracklist

1.	Sally	1:21

2.	Snakes and Ladders	3:43

3.	I Feel Fine	3:46

4.	Cold Love	4:35

5.	Come a Little Closer	3:36

6.	Sunshine Baby	5:01

7.	I Won't Break	3:52

8.	An Apology	4:07

9.	Breathing In, Breathing Out	4:48

10.	Leave Me Wanting More	4:43

11.	Reaching Out to You	4:53

Credits

released May 5, 2023

All songs written by Jessica Rhaye *except “Snakes & Ladders” co-write with Bill Preeper, Sandy MacKay & Clinton Charlton, “Cold Love”, “Come A Little Closer” co-writes with Brent Mason, “Sunshine Baby” co-write with Preeper & MacKay, “I Won’t Break” co-write with Preeper, MacKay, Charlton & Chris Braydon, “An Apology” cowrite with Preeper, MacKay & Mason, “Breathing In Breathing Out” co-write with Preeper & MacKay, “Leave Me Wanting More” co-write with Preeper.

Jessica Rhaye: singing, acoustic guitar (tracks 3, 11), piano (tracks 1, 6) electric guitar (track 7)
Bill Preeper: singing, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar (tracks 4, 8, 10, 11), accordion, mandolin (track 3), banjo (track 3), auto harp
Sandy MacKay: singing, electric bass, upright bass, upright bowed bass, piano (tracks 4, 8, 9), banjo (track 11), mandolin (tracks 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11)
Chris Braydon: electric baritone guitar, electric guitar (tracks 3, 9), guitar loop, singing (track 7)
Jordi Comstock: drums & percussion
Dale Murray: 12 string electric guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar (track 5), electric guitar (track 5), nylon string acoustic guitar, banjo (track 11), piano (tracks 2, 5), organ (tracks 5, 10), synth
Jon & Liz Estes: strings

Produced by Dale Murray with Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade
Recorded, engineered & mixed by Dale Murray at Farmhouse Studio (Port Howe, NS, Canada)
Bed tracks recorded at the Capitol Theatre (Oxford, NS, Canada)
Additional recording at Blackberry Studio (Hampton, NB, Canada)
Strings arranged & recorded by Jon Estes. Performed by Jon & Liz Estes (Nashville, TN, USA)
*Pre production drums percussion arrangements (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11); *synth on “I Feel Fine” by Clinton Charlton
“Cold Love” demoed with Jamie Foulds at Soundpark Studios (Sydney, NS, Canada)
“I Feel Fine” group singing - Dale Murray & Christina Martin

Mastered by John McLaggan at Parachute Mastering
Illustration by Jud Haynes
Art Direction & Layout by Jessica Rhaye

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