The album also runs into problems in the lyrical department due to its overt AOR-styled reliance on the travails of love as its main subject matter (see "Sweet Talk" and "Love Is Blind")
Soulful Distance plays on the current global scenario and oozes the familiar smooth sounds and cruising music that Devin is best known for
deep African polyrhythms and empowering lyrics and bassist Muzi Branch
heavily promoted record designed not to woo back country fans but his crossover audience
On Avery Island 11/19/2012 The album also runs intoPersonnel: Jeff Mangum (vocals, guitar, air organ, xylophone, Casio, drums, bells, tape loops); Rick Benjamin (trombone); Robert Schnieder (air organ, organ, bass, xylophone); Lisa Janssen (bass); Marisa Bissinger, Hilarie Sidney, Dane Terry, Aaron Reedy. Principally recorded at Elephant 6, Dane Terry and Marisa Bissinger's house, Denver, Colorado between February and May 1995. Though singer songwriter bandleader Jeff Magnum would refine his