Spirit (Amos Lee album)

Spirit is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Amos Lee. It was released August 16, 2016 on the John Varvatos imprint of Republic Records, Lee's first album on a label other than Blue Note Records. It is also the first album which Lee self-produced. Like all previous albums, Lee penned all thirteen songs.

Spirit
Studio album by Amos Lee
Released	August 16, 2016
Genre	Folk rock, Neo soul
Length	47:52
Label	John Varvatos/Republic
Producer	Amos Lee
Amos Lee chronology
Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song (2013) Spirit (2016) My New Moon (2018)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart at No. 3,^[2] selling 12,000 copies in its first week.

Track listing

All songs written by Amos Lee

1. "New Love" – 3:45
2. "Running Out of Time" – 3:19
3. "Spirit" – 4:50
4. "Lost Child" – 3:54
5. "Highways and Clouds" – 3:29
6. "Lightly" – 3:00
7. "One Lonely Light" – 3:35
8. "Wait Up for Me" – 3:45
9. "Till You Come Back Through" – 3:02
10. "Hurt Me" – 3:17
11. "Vaporize" – 3:51
12. "Walls" – 4:38
13. "With You" – 3:27

Personnel

• Amos Lee – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, percussion, background vocals
• Jaron Olevsky – keyboards [piano, organ, glockenspiel, synthesizer] (all), bass (3, 8, 10), accordion (8), background vocals (5)
• Zach Djanikian – electric guitar (2, 6, 7, 9, 12), bass (5), saxophone (5), mandolin (7, 8), synthesizer (11), background vocals (5, 12)
• Mark Colenburg – drums, percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12)
• Adam Blackstone – bass (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12)
• Ian Fitchuk – drums, percussion (3, 4, 5, 7), background vocals (5)
• Fred Berman – drums (8, 10)
• Doug Pettibone – electric guitar (2, 3, 10), pedal steel (10, 11)
• Luther Dickinson – electric guitar, background vocals (5)
• Andy Keenan – dobro (3), lap steel (6)
• Jeff Coffin – saxophone (1, 2, 4)
• Rashawn Ross – trumpet (1, 2, 4)
• Rob Moose – violin, viola (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
• Anthony LaMarchina – cello (10, 13)
• Vanessa McGowan – contrabass (10), bowed bass (13)
• Annie Clements – background vocals (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12)
• Kristen Rogers – background vocals (2, 6, 7, 12)
• Jason Eskridge – background vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 9)

References

1. Collar, Matt. Spirit at AllMusic. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
2. "Rock Albums: August 31, 2016". Billboard.