Places I Have Never Been

Places I Have Never Been
Studio album by Willie Nile
Released	March 26, 1991
Recorded	321 Studios, The Hit Factory, Messina Music (New York City), Home Base Studios, Studio 4 (Philadelphia)
Genre	Rock
Length	52:12
Label	Columbia, MRI
Producer	Tom "T-Bone" Wolk and Stewart Lerman
Willie Nile chronology
Golden Down (1981) Places I Have Never Been (1991) Hard Times in America (1992)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Places I Have Never Been is the third studio album, and first in ten years, by singer/songwriter Willie Nile.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Places I Have Never Been"	Willie Nile, J.R. Cobb, Rick Chertoff	5:02
2.	"Rite of Spring"	Nile	4:23
3.	"Heaven Help the Lonely"	Nile, Dean Chamberlain	5:18
4.	"Café Memphis"	Nile	4:15
5.	"Yesterday's Dreams"	Nile	4:46
6.	"Everybody Needs a Hammer"	Nile	4:36
7.	"Renegades"	Nile	5:33
8.	"Don't Die"	Nile	3:12
9.	"Breakdown"	Nile, Lowry Hamner	5:12
10.	"Children of Paradise"	Nile, Martin Briley	4:56
11.	"That's Enough for Me"	Nile	4:11
12.	"Places I Have Never Been (Reprise)"	Nile, J.R. Cobb, Rick Chertoff	0:48
Total length:			52:12

Personnel

Musicians

• Willie Nile – lead & background vocals, electric , 12 string, & acoustic guitars, keyboard and piano
• Stewart Lerman - electric & acoustic guitars, 6 & 12 string guitars, maracas
• T-Bone Wolk - bass, acoustic guitar, keyboard, piano, percussion
• Mickey Curry - drums, tambourine, percussion, background vocals
• Peter Wood - keyboard, piano
• Larry Campbell - fiddle
• Roger McGuinn - guitar, 12 string guitar, background vocals
• Mark Johnson - background vocals
• James Cobb - background vocals
• Robbie McIntosh - electric guitar
• William Wittmann - acoustic guitar, background vocals, keyboard
• Paul "Wix" Wickens Hammond organ
• Richard Thompson - lead electric guitar, background vocals
• Eric Bazilian - mandolin, background vocals
• Rob Hyman - accordion
• Richard Kennedy - lead acoustic guitar
• Luke Noonan - piano, background vocals
• Terre Roche - background vocals
• Suzzy Roche - background vocals
• Loudon Wainwright III - background vocals
• Bobby Noonan - background vocals
• Mary Noonan - background vocals
• JoJo Noonan - background vocals
• Jennifer Krause - background vocals
• Anthony Acquilato - background vocals
• Kelly Moore - background vocals
• Mel Papaterpos - background vocals

Production and additional personnel

• Produced by Tom "T-Bone" Wolk and Stewart Lerman
• Executive producer Rick Chertoff
• Mixing and additional recording Produced by William Wittmann
• Recorded and mixed by John Agnello
• Recorded at 321 Studios, The Hit Factory, Messina Music (New York City), Home base Studios, Studio 4 (Philadelphia)
• Mixed at Messina Music
• Additional engineering: Tim Leitner, Ted Trewhella
• Assistant engineers: Ted Trewhella, Tom Cadley, Lance Neal, Joe Bartoldus, Phil Nicolo
• Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound (New York City)
• Art direction by Tony Sellari
• Cover Photography Lou Salvatori

References

1. Places I Have Never Been at AllMusic