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Mission Bell (Amos Lee album)

Mission Bell is the fourth studio album by American musician Amos Lee, released on January 25, 2011. The album features Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Sam Beam, Priscilla Ahn, Pieta Brown, James Gadson, and Calexico.[1] Joey Burns, of Calexico produced the album. Mission Bell debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 40,000 copies in its first week, which is the lowest total for a #1 album in the Soundscan era.[2] These sales broke the record set by Cake's Showroom of Compassion when it sold 44,000 two weeks previous. The following week Mission Bell dropped from #1 to #26, the fourth-largest drop from #1 on the Billboard 200 as of January 2017. It shares this honor with the 1975's 2016 album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It.

Mission Bell

January 25, 2011

51:17

Amos Lee – vocal, guitar, fuzz guitar, vibraphone

Joey Burns – bass, guitar, backing vocal, keyboards, vibraphone

Jaron Olevsky – keyboards, percussion, backing vocal, bass, guitar, banjo

– steel guitar, guitar, mandolin, dobro

Greg Leisz

John Convertino – drums, thunder drum

– drums, tambourine, backing vocal

James Gadson

Jacob Valenzuela – trumpets

Craig Schumacher – synth bass, harmonica

Johnny O'Halloran – bowed saw

Brian Lopez – backing vocal

– backing vocal

Sam Beam

– backing vocal

Priscilla Ahn

– backing vocal

Pieta Brown

Zach Djanikian – backing vocal

– backing vocal

Mutlu Onaral

– vocal

Lucinda Williams

– vocal, nylon string guitar

Willie Nelson

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