A Crash Course in Roses

Infobox Album |
Name = A Crash Course in Roses
Type = Album
Artist = Catie Curtis


Released = August 3, 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Folk Rock
Length = 52:39
Label = Rykodisc
Producer = Catie Curtis, Ben Wisch
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9dfyl62xpeb~T1 link]
* "New Internationalist" Rating|4|5 [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_323/ai_30324558 link]
Last album = "Catie Curtis"
(1999)
This album = "A Crash Course In Roses"
(1999)
Next album = "My Shirt Looks Good On You"
(2001)

"A Crash Course in Roses" is Catie Curtis' fifth studio album, released on August 3, 1999.

The album contains numerous love songs, with "Magnolia Street", a song about the realization that one is in love, gaining some radio airplay. While the album did not make the Billboard Music Charts, it was her most successful at that stage.

In addition to the love songs which make up the majority of the album, "A Crash Course In Roses" also bears two other songs - "What's The Matter", a criticism of her hometown (Saco, Maine) for rejecting her when she came out as lesbian, and "Roses", the story of a soldier conscripted into World War I.

Numerous other singer-songwriters appear in supporting roles on the album, including Mary Chapin Carpenter and Melissa Ferrick.

Track listing

# "Gave Me Love" – 3:15
# "World Don't Owe Me" – 3:57
# "100 Miles" – 5:03
# "Fall Away" – 3:13
# "Wise to the Ways" – 4:45
# "What's the Matter" – 3:18
# "I'll Cover You" – 4:37
# "Burn Your Own House Down" – 4:37
# "Roses" – 4:51
# "Look at You Now" – 4:08
# "Stay up All Night" – 4:08
# "Magnolia Street" – 4:03
# "Start Again" – 2:44

Personnel

* Catie Curtis - Vocals, producer, Wurlitzer, acoustic guitar, piano
* Michael Maxwell - gut string guitar
* Hugh McCracken - harmonica
* Sammy Merendino - tambourine, drum programming
* Jim Robeson - engineer
* Catherine Russell - gut string guitar
* Ben Wisch - producer, engineer, mixing, Wurlitzer
* Tom "T-Bone" Wolk - accordion, sound effects, bass
* Jim Ryan - gut string guitar, mandolin
* Mark Spencer - electric guitar, slide guitar, National steel guitar, acoustic guitar
* Steven Jurgensmeyer - design
* Kenny White - gut string guitar, organ, piano
* Akira Satake - banjo
* Todd Reynolds - violin
* Dawn Buckholz - cello, string arrangements
* Bruce MacFarlane - assistant engineer
* Jana Leon - photography
* Crit Harmon - engineer
* Liz Marshall - gut string guitar
* Kevin Pickering - assistant engineer
* Duke Levine - electric guitar, mandola, omnichord, e-bow, acoustic guitar
* Manolo Badrena - conga, percussion
* Paul Bryan - djembe, shaker, bass pedals, organ, bass, percussion
* Mary Chapin Carpenter - gut string guitar
* Billy Conway - drums, snare drums, percussion
* Melissa Ferrick - gut string guitar
* Ted Jensen - mastering
* Jennifer Kimball - gut string guitar