Under the Sun

Personnel: Gordon Gano (vocals, guitar, violin); Bill Ryan (vocals, guitar); Brendan Ryan (vocals, accordion, trumpet, keyboards); Sarah Brooks (vocals); Kevin Osbourne (trombone); Frank Ferrer (drums); Louis Diaz, Louis Diaz (percussion).
Audio Mixers: Bonzai Jim Caruso; Phil Palazzolo.
Photographer: Chris Cassidy.
Gordon Gano has been a spokesman for the outer limits of teenage angst since the Violent Femmes cut their landmark debut album in 1982, but you can keep doing only so much with your adolescent fears and obsessions once you're in your mid-forties. His second solo slab, UNDER THE SUN is an album of tight, energetic, and edgy pop music that bears no musical resemblance to the punk-folk hybrid Gano helped create with the Femmes, running the gamut from the lean, nervous funk of "Wave and Water" and the subtle country accents of "Hired Gun," to the updated Eastern European mazurka of "Oholah Oholibah."