Workbook (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Workbook
Type = Album
Artist = Bob Mould


Released = April 1989
Recorded = ?
Genre = Rock
Length = 52:11
Label = Virgin
Producer = Bob Mould
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ewa9qj2bojaa link]
Last album =

This album = "Workbook"
(1989)
Next album = "Black Sheets of Rain"
(1990)

"Workbook" is the title of Bob Mould's first solo album after leaving Hüsker Dü. The album is primarily acoustic and has a strong folk influence - very different from much of his group's heavier music. The single "See a Little Light" was a hit on the US Modern Rock chart. Drummer Anton Fier and bassist Tony Maimone, of Pere Ubu fame, served as Mould's rhythm section.

In the liner notes of the Hüsker Dü live album titled "The Living End", critic David Fricke noted that Mould had an embryonic version of "Compositions for the Young and Old" in the waning days of that band.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bob Mould

# "Sunspots"
# "Wishing Well"
# "Heartbreak a Stranger"
# "See a Little Light"
# "Poison Years"
# "Sinners and Their Repentances"
# "Brasilia Crossed with Trenton"
# "Compositions for the Young and Old"
# "Lonely Afternoon"
# "Dreaming, I Am"
# "Whichever Way the Wind Blows"

Personnel

Bob Mould - vocals, guitar, mandolin, keyboards, percussion
*Anton Fier - drums
*Steve Haigler - percussion
*Tony Maimone - bass
*Jane Scarpantoni - cello