No Stranger is Canadian singer Tom Cochrane's fifth solo studio album and first album for Universal Music Canada. Released in October 2006, it was his first album in seven years following Xray Sierra in 1999. No Stranger included the singles "Didn't Mean", "The Party's Not Over", "Northern Star", "Out of My Head", and a cover version of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky". The album debuted at #25 on the Canadian Albums Chart.
Recording
Recording took place at Metalworks Studios and Layastone. Cochrane produced the album and mixed it at his studio in Northern Ontario. Red Rider bandmates Ken Greer and Jeff Jones performed on the album. No Stranger received a Juno Award nomination for Canadian Adult Alternative Album of the Year.
Track listing
Personnel
Personnel taken from No Strangers liner notes.
- Tom Cochrane â vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, harmonica, production, engineering, mixing (tracks 3âÂÂ5, 8, 10âÂÂ12)
- Tony Feener â drums
- Jeff Jones â bass
- Ken Greer â electric and slide guitars, bass, additional engineering
- Bill Bell â guitars, percussion, additional engineering, mixing (tracks 7, 9)
- George Kohler â additional bass
- John Webster â additional keyboards, additional engineering, mixing (tracks 1, 2, 6)
- Tony Marriott â additional bass
- Gian Carlo Gallo â assistant engineer
- Dylan Argument â additional assistant
- Brent Whitcomb â additional assistant
- João Carvalho â mastering
- David Owen Cameron â art direction, art and design, cover photography
- Garnet Armstrong â art direction
- Roland Wilhelm â back cover photography, liner notes photography
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