In My Tribe is the third studio album by the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. Released on July 27, 1987 by Elektra Records, it was their second major label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant‘s songwriting partner on previous albums, had left the band in 1986, and In My Tribe saw Merchant begin to collaborate with the other members of the band, most notably with Rob Buck. In 1989, the band’s recording of Cat Stevens‘ Peace Train was removed from the U.S. CD and cassette versions of the album, after comments made by Stevens (by then a Muslim convert, known as Yusuf Islam) that were perceived to be supportive of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie. The song remained on copies released outside the United States. It was later included on the band’s 2 CD compilation Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings, released on January 24, 2004 by Elektra/Asylum/Rhino Records. The front cover of the CD edition is a black-and-white photograph of children with bows and arrows in an archery class, a theme used by record and cassette editions with different covers.
Tracklist:
- What’s the Matter Here? (Robert Buck, Merchant)
- Hey Jack Kerouac (Buck, Merchant)
- Like the Weather
- Cherry Tree (Buck, Merchant)
- The Painted Desert (Jerome Augustyniak, Merchant)
- Don’t Talk (Dennis Drew, Merchant)
- Peace Train (Cat Stevens) Omitted from later U.S. CD releases
- Gun Shy
- My Sister Rose (Augustyniak, Merchant)
- A Campfire Song
- City of Angels (Buck, Merchant)
- Verdi Cries
10,000 Maniacs
Natalie Merchant: voice
Robert Buck: guitars, mandolin, pedal steel guitar
Dennis Drew: keyboards
Steve Gustafson: bass guitar
Jerome Augustyniak: drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Michael Stipe: other voice on “A Campfire Song”
Don Grolnick: piano on “Verdi Cries”
Dennis Karmazyn: cello on “Verdi Cries”
Novi Novog: viola on “Verdi Cries”
Bob Magnusson: double bass on “Verdi Cries”
Technical personnel
Peter Asher: producer
David Campbell: string arrangement on “Verdi Cries”
George Massenburg: engineer, mixing
Frank Wolf: mixing
Sharon Rice: additional engineering
Shep Lonsdale: assistant engineer
Duane Seykora: assistant engineer
Mike Reese: mastering
Doug Sax: mastering
Edd Kolakowski: production assistant
Kosh: design, art direction
Todd Eberle: portraits of menfolk
Kris Nielson: portrait of Natalie
