One Step Closer (The String Cheese Incident album)

One Step Closer is the seventh release and fifth studio album of Colorado-based jam band the String Cheese Incident. Released in June 2005, and containing thirteen original tracks with guest songwriting collaborations, the album was produced by Malcolm Burn at a studio in Boulder, Colorado. One Step Closer was a return to the more roots-based music of earlier String Cheese Incident fare, while still retaining some of the pop sensibility of previous studio albums. It was also the first album to feature new member Jason Hann.

One Step Closer
Studio album by the String Cheese Incident
Released	June 28, 2005
Length	53:12
Label	SCI Fidelity
Producer	The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident chronology
Untying the Not (2003) One Step Closer (2005) Song in My Head (2014)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Give Me the Love"	John Perry Barlow Malcolm Burn Michael Kang	3:33
2.	"Sometimes a River"	Keith Moseley Todd Sheaffer	5:20
3.	"Big Compromise"	Jim Lauderdale Bill Nershi	4:26
4.	"Until the Music's Over"	Burn Moseley Sheaffer	4:48
5.	"Silence in Your Head"	Burn Kyle Hollingsworth	3:40
6.	"Farther"	Lauderdale Nershi	4:00
7.	"Drive"	Barlow Hollingsworth Kang	3:53
8.	"Betray the Dark"	Kang	2:28
9.	"45th of November"	Hollingsworth Robert Hunter	4:26
10.	"One Step Closer"	Nershi	3:30
11.	"Rainbow Serpent"	Ina Grigorova Michael Travis	3:57
12.	"Swampy Waters"	Grigorova Travis	4:59
13.	"Brand New Start"	Lauderdale Moseley	4:12
Total length:			53:12

• Bonus 30-minute DVD documentary The Big Compromise

Credits

The String Cheese Incident

• Bill Nershi – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Keith Moseley – bass guitar, harmonica, electric guitar, vocals
• Kyle Hollingsworth – accordion, keyboards, vocals
• Michael Kang – mandolin, violin, viola, guitar, vocals
• Michael Travis – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals
• Jason Hann – percussion

Additional personnel

• Jim Watts – background vocals, E-bow
• Malcolm Burn – vocals

Production

• Malcolm Burn – producer, instrumentation
• Kevin Morris – management
• Dominick Maita – mastering engineer
• Jim Watts – engineer
• Jeremy D'Antonio – assistant engineer
• Jamie Janover – cover photo
• Jeremy Stein – management
• Mike Luba – management
• Jesse Aratow – management
• Nadia Prescher – management
• Breck Alan – vocal coach

References

1. Ruhlmann, William. "One Step Closer - The String Cheese Incident". AllMusic. Retrieved February 11, 2025.
2. Wild, David (June 20, 2005). "The String Cheese Incident: One Step Closer". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 18, 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2025.