Turtle Island (Paul Hyde album)

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Turtle Island
Turtle Island cover
Studio album by Paul Hyde
Released 1989
Label Capitol/EMI
Producer Davitt Sigerson
Paul Hyde chronology
Turtle Island
(1989)
Love and the Great Depression
(1996)

Turtle Island is the first solo album by Paul Hyde of the Payola$, released in 1989 by Capitol/EMI on LP, cassette and Compact Disc.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Paul Hyde, except as noted.

Side 1

  1. "What Am I Supposed to Do?" (Hyde/Nelson)
  2. "Golden Years" (Hyde/Nelson)
  3. "What Would Elvis Do?"
  4. "Love is All"
  5. "Away Away"
  6. "Happy Train" (Hyde/Nelson/May/Saunders)

Side 2

  1. "America is Sexy"
  2. "The Cloths of Heaven (You're Walking on My Dreams)" (Hyde, W.B. Yeats)
  3. "Is This How Lovers Drown?" (Hyde/Nelson)
  4. "Tennis Anyone?"
  5. "A Man Who Knows Too Much"
  6. "Jesus of the Barroom" (Hyde/Nelson)

[edit] Personnel

  • Paul Hyde: vocals, guitars, keyboards, melodica
  • Terry Bozzio: drums
  • David Faragher: bass
  • Jef Scott: bass, guitars, vocals
  • Geoffrey Kelly: bodhran
  • Jay Coot: noise
  • Joani Bye, Rachelle Paiment: vocals on "Love is All" and "America is Sexy"
  • Gail Hamilton: vocals on "America is Sexy"
  • Myriam Nelson: vocals on "What Am I Supposed to Do?", "Happy Train", "America is Sexy" and "Is This How Lovers Drown?"