released September 30, 2016

Recorded at: Hi-Top Productions, Stamford, CT
Producer: Steve Hansen; co-producer: Kathy Muir
Mastered by: Alex Théorêt, Turtle Tone Studios, New York, NY
Cover photograph: Peter Orkin


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you Steve Hansen. Working with you has been amazing. You have never ceased to provide me with such creative joy across the spectrum of projects we've worked on and we continue to work on. I owe you a couple of hundred packs of dark French roast coffee.

Huge thanks to Harry Whalley. You have not only had the patience to work remotely these last three years but have done so with such musical and emotional dexterity, that it has truly been worth all the hard work and effort. Your piano playing and orchestral embellishments shine, as do you. The next time I come home to do a jam session with you, it's my turn to have the whisky and your turn to have the tea!

Thanks to Peter Orkin for a summer Connecticut shoot that captured the essence of Second Life through your photography, and for taking the time to teach me how to be a better photographer.

To my friends and family both in the States and in Scotland, thank you for all your love, support, kindness, and inspiration. You're in my heart, the rest is just geography.

To the Oxgangs, Edinburgh crowd past and present, you made the Like Warriors project become a community project. For that, I am deeply grateful and am humbled by your support, generosity, and belief that we could once more see, hear and experience even a little of the childhood we had. Ya bass!

To the White Dove Rockotel, Woodstock for giving me the best possible setting to write Born By the Water in your 'cabin in the woods'. Thank you for letting me come back to the cabin to shoot the music video in between guests leaving and arriving. You were brilliant.

To Vincent Carnavale, thank you for making the video for Born By the Water such a fantastic experience. I thought we couldn't top it, but we did. Filming Troubled Town is a memory I'll cup in my hands, drink slowly and give thanks.

Special thanks to Hope Yoneshige for your wordsmith wisdom when I wasn't always sure I was doing a song justice. You rose to the occasion each and every time. Honey Child will always be a song I will cherish as will my love and friendship for you.

To Gareth Edwards, discovering your work was the inspiration that helped truly portray the song Second Life. Seeing an artist at work is rare. Seeing that work recorded for evermore is priceless. Thank you for helping me to make Second Life breathe.

This album is dedicated to my mother and brother. My love of music started when I was young but my fondest memories, those I still hold dear, are of Curt and I growing up in the high rise flats, us listening to music together, and us staying up way too late! Mum, Troubled Town is for you.

Kathy x
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