Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings of 10,000 Maniacs is a compilation album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, released in 2004. It includes their biggest hits, B-sides and unreleased recordings from the Natalie Merchant era. Despite the album's title, the collection does not include "A Campfire Song" from In My Tribe (1987).
Track listing
Notes
- "Tension" originally appeared on the EP Human Conflict Number Five. The version present on Campfire Songs is from Secrets of the I Ching. A third studio recording of the same song, re-titled "Tension Makes a Tangle", appears on The Wishing Chair.
Personnel
10,000 Maniacs
- Jerome Augustyniak – drums, percussion (except CD 1, track 1)
- Robert Buck – guitars, mandolin, steel, banjo, devices, synthesizer
- Dennis Drew – organ, piano, accordion
- Steven Gustafson – guitar, bass guitar
- John Lombardo – guitars, bass guitar, occasional vocals (CD 1, tracks 1–4 and CD 2, tracks 1–2)
- Natalie Merchant – vocals, piano
Technical
- 10,000 Maniacs – producer, compilation
- Bill Waldman – producer
- Joe Boyd – producer
- Peter Asher – producer
- Paul Fox – producer
- Gary Smith – producer
- Lenny Kaye – producer
- Natalie Merchant – compilation, art direction
- Dan Hersch – remastering
- Bill Inglot – remastering
- Steve Woolard – discographical annotation
- Julee Stover – editorial supervision
- Mary Lynch – design assistance