The Will to Live
by Ben Harper
- Type: Album
- Released: 26 May 1997
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United States
- Length: 53:25
- Community rating: 3.63/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Californian singer-songwriter's third album expertly broadens his acoustic roots into heavier, more expansive blues-rock territory. Supported closely by the Innocent Criminals, the deeply passionate, emotionally resonant record seamlessly blends traditional folk and Delta blues with modern alternative rock grit.
Genres
Descriptors: male-vocals, guitars, bluesy, spirituality, folk
Tracklist
- Faded (4:49)
- Homeless Child (3:51)
- Number Three (1:43)
- Roses From My Friends (6:23)
- Jah Work (4:54)
- I Want To Be Ready (4:02)
- The Will To Live (4:57)
- Ashes (3:52)
- Widow Of A Living Man (4:10)
- Glory And Consequence (5:40)
- Mama's Trippin' (3:44)
- I Shall Not Walk Alone (5:13)
Credits
- Ben Harper - primary artist, guitar, lap steel guitar [weissenborns], baglama [saz], vocals, written-by, ba臒lama (saz) family guitar family lap steel guitar instrument
- Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - band
- Juan Nelson - bass, backing vocals, bass guitar instrument
- Dean Butterworth - drums, membranophone instrument
- Ben Elder - research [official researcher on weissenborn and related instruments], advisor [official advisor on weissenborn and related instruments]
- Alan Anderson - guitar [nylon string guitar], Guitar
- Rock Deadrick - percussion
- Louis Allen - bass [string quartet]
- Emily Wright - Cello [String Quartet]
- Brett Banducci - Viola [String Quartet]
- Danielle Charles - Violin [String Quartet]
- Agnes Baddoo - Backing Vocals
- Amy Piatt - Backing Vocals
- Patrick Brayer - Mandolin, Fiddle
- Eric Person - Saxophone
- J.P. Plunier - Written-By