Why Do Birds Sing? - Violent Femmes

Album by Violent Femmes

Released 30 April 1991

Alex Alvarez
background vocals [1], handclaps [1]
Brian Ritchie
producer, acoustic bass guitar [1-8, 10-11, 13], banjo [13], bass guitar [9], bouzouki [4], didgeridoo [1], electric bass guitar [11-12], electric guitar [1, 3-4, 13], glockenspiel [3], handclaps [1], mouth harp [13], producer, ukulele [10], vocal [1-3, 5, 7-9, 11-12]
Carmaig de Forest
background vocals [1], handclaps [1]
David Vartanian
mix [2-3, 5, 7-13]
Eric Thorngren
mix [1, 4, 6]
Gordon Gano
producer, acoustic guitar [1-8, 10-11, 13], electric guitar [1, 5-6, 9], guitar [12], handclaps [1], producer, slide guitar [10], solo [1, 10], vocal
Ilene Novog
strings [6]
Larry Corbett
strings [6]
Michael Beinhorn
producer, Hammond organ [1], background vocals [1], handclaps [1], harmonium [6], mellotron [4, 6], piano [4, 13], producer, strings [6]
Mike Kloster
background vocals [1], handclaps [1]
Sid Page
strings [6]
Susan Rogers
recording
Suzie Katayama
strings [6]
Tom Mandell
keyboard [1]
Victor DeLorenzo
producer, bell [1], congas [10], cowbell [2], cymbal [6-7, 11], drums (drum set) [4, 9, 12-13], handclaps [1], membranophone [4, 6-7, 13], other instruments [11], producer, shakers [5], snare drum [1-3, 5-8, 11, 13], tabla [2], tambourine [1, 3-6, 11], timpani [1], tom-tom [11], vocal [1-5, 7-8, 11-13], wood block [2]