Dan Mangan – Basket

"Basket" is the second last track on Dan Mangan's Nice, Nice, Very Nice. Though it was not released as a single, it seems to have impressed enough of my Facebook friends to place ahead of the two singles that were released from the album.

Tracy and I first heard about Dan Mangan from our daughter Sara, who either learned about him from her six-month sojourn with Katimavik or from her time in Vancouver working for Air Transat. We saw him play at Riverfest in Elora and, although much older than most of the crowd, we quite enjoyed the show.

Personnel

Note: I really think this is just Mangan, his acoustic guitar and some strings, but these people are all credited on Nice, Nice, Very Nice, without being explicitly excluded from this track.

Dan Mangan – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, tambourine, shaker, sleigh bells, piano, handclaps, glockenspiel, banjo, organ
Kenton Loewen – drums, tambourine, handclaps
John Critchley – electric guitar
John Walsh – electric upright bass
Ryan Wayne – mandolin
Mark Berube – piano, accordion, vocals
Veda Hille – piano, vocals, keyboards
Shaun Brodie – trumpet, flugelhorn
Todor Kobakov – string arrangement
Anne Bourne – cello
Rafael Hoekman – cello
Yosef Tamir – viola
Aya Miwagawa – violin
Csaba Koczo – violin
Rachel Prince – violin
Justin Rutledge – vocals
Mark Sasso – vocals

Hometown:	Vancouver
Release Date:	2009
Composer:	Dan Mangan
Album:	Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Style:	Singer-songwriter
Mar*Star 125:	did not exist
Mar*Star 150:	55