Soft Dangerous Shores

Soft Dangerous Shores is the twelfth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his tenth studio album.

Soft Dangerous Shores
Studio album by Chris Whitley
Released	July 26, 2005
Recorded	2005
Genre	Rock
Length	41:07
Label	Messenger Records
Producer	Malcolm Burn
Chris Whitley chronology
War Crime Blues (2004) Soft Dangerous Shores (2005) Reiter In (2006)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]
Allmusic	[2]
PopMatters	8/10[3]
Slant Magazine	[4]

Malcolm Burn produced, mixed, and played on the album. It was recorded by Burn in Kingston, New York.

He recorded the album in 2 weeks and "basically wrote a song a day".^[5]

Track listing

All tracks written by Chris Whitley.

1. "Fireroad (for Two)" – 3:26
2. "Soft Dangerous Shores" – 4:10
3. "As Day is Long" – 3:30
4. "Valley of the Innocents" – 3:28
5. "City of Women" – 6:36
6. "Times Square Machine (N.Y.C. February 1991)" – 0:54
7. "Her Furious Angels" – 3:11
8. "Last Million Miles" – 4:21
9. "Medicine Wheel" – 4:33
10. "End Game Holiday" – 4:22
11. "Breath of Shadows" – 3:53
12. [unnamed] – 0:18

Personnel

• Chris Whitley – vocals, guitars, and banjo
• Heiko Schramm – bass guitars
• Matthias Macht – drums and percussion
• Malcolm Burn – keyboards, programming, and processing

Additional personnel

• Trixie Whitley – vocals (9)
• Dan Whitley – guitar (1, 2)
• Aaron Comess – drums (8)

References

1. "Chris Whitley: Soft Dangerous Shores album review @ All About Jazz". July 28, 2005.
2. Allmusic review
3. "Chris Whitley: Soft Dangerous Shores, PopMatters". July 21, 2005.
4. "Review: Chris Whitley, Soft Dangerous Shores". Slant Magazine. July 27, 2005.
5. "'Soft Dangerous' Blues from Chris Whitley". NPR. August 11, 2005.