Recording and Production
The album was recorded at Wave Lab Studios in Tucson, Arizona, except the beginning of "John Saw That Number", which was recorded in a stairwell at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern; and "At Last", which was tracked at Toronto's Iguana studio. Case is backed by several collaborators, including bandmates Jon Rauhouse and Tom V. Ray, as well as frequent collaborators The Sadies, Giant Sand's leader Howe Gelb, vocalist Kelly Hogan, Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino, and Canadian cohorts Brian Connelly and Paul Rigby. Rachel Flotard of Seattle punk-pop combo Visqueen also guests, as does legendary multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson of The Band. The album was engineered by Craig Schumacher and Chris Schultz, and produced and mixed by Neko Case and Darryl Neudorf. It has sold 194,000 copies in the United States up to December 2008. The Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Bonus Disc Version) was released November 6, 2007 which includes five additional songs.
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood was produced by Darryl Neudorf and co-produced by Case. This is her first solo album in four years. Neudorf helped mix, produce, and engineer other Case albums including "The Virginian" (1997), "Furnace Room Lullaby" (2000), "Blacklisted" (2002), "The Tigers Have Spoken" (2005), "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Bonus Disc Version)" (2007), and "Middle Cyclone" (2009). He helped produce and engineer for other artists such as Sarah McLachlan, The Sadies, and The Mohawk Lodge.
The song "Maybe Sparrow" has a music video.
Regarding a cover of "Star Witness" by Canadian students Kate Macdonald and Janelle Blanchard, Neko reported via Twitter, "Wow. That just made me bawl my eyes out. What beautiful singers. I'm not worthy... Holy god. They broke the shit out of my heart!!"
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