Album: The Earth is...
Artist: Air Supply
1991 Giant Records
CD: 9 24426-2

Band members:
Graham Russell: lead vocals (3, 5-10), background vocals (1-3, 8-10), guitars (7), acoustic guitars (1-4, 6, 9), drums (3), percussion (3), programming (3), drum programming (7), piano (10)
Russell Hitchcock: lead vocals (1-4, 6-10), background vocals (1, 3-5, 8-10)

Additional musicians:
Guy Allison: keyboards (1, 3-6, 8, 9), programming (3, 6, 8)
David Young: keyboards (1, 4, 9), drum programming (8)
Jimmy Haun: guitars (1, 3-6, 8, 9), electric guitar (2), acoustic guitar (2), Bolivian charranga (7)
Larry Antonio: bass (1-9), background vocals (1, 4, 5)
Ralph Cooper: drums (1, 3, 4, 9), percussion (3), programming (3), drum programming (5, 6-8)
Randy Kerber: piano (2)
Brad Buxer: strings (2, 4), keyboards (3-6, 8), programming (3, 6, 8)
Michael Sherwood: keyboards (5)
Machito Sanchez: ethnic percussion (7)
Novi Novog: viola (10)
Karen Tobin: background vocals (6)

Spanish translation and language coach: Beverly Abdo (7)

Produced and engineered by Harry Maslin
Assistant engineer: Jason Roberts, Talley Sherwood, James Jason

Tracks:
1. Stronger Than the Night [Russell/M. Sherwood/Young]
2. Without You [P. Ham/T. Evans]
3. The Earth Is [Russell/M. Sherwood]
4. Speaking of Love [Russell/M. Sherwood/Young/Haun]
5. She's Got the Answer [Russell/M. Sherwood/Antonio/Haun]
6. Stop the Tears [J. Kyle/J. Buckingham]
7. Dame Amor [Russell/M. Sherwood/Haun]
8. Dancing with the Mountain [Russell/M. Sherwood/Young]
9. Love Conquers Time [Russell]
10. Bread and Blood [Russell]

Notes:
(**) From the same year as Union, we have some of the same session musicians, Jimmy Haun and Michael Sherwood, working with Air Supply. The songs are mediocre romantic mush, or worse in the case of the environmentally-friendly mush of the poor title track. The Sherwood/Haun co-writes are marginally better. (HP, 27 May 01)


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