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Hold Your Country is the fifth studio album by American rock band Bulla, released in April 1, 2004. The title is taken from the lyrics of the song "Fifty Shades of Grey". This is the first studio album without the guitarist Bill Lawrence since Animal Kingdom, and the first and only album recorded as a quartet.

Album
All lyrics written by John Langley, unless where noted.


 * 1) "Evil Inside" (music by Langley and Mike Sullivan) - 7:22
 * 2) "Tequila Song" (music by Jim Hewitt and Brian Rosenberg) - 4:36
 * 3) "Blow" (music by Hewitt) - 5:24
 * 4) "Fifty Shades of Grey" (lyrics co-written by Brian Rosenberg; music by Hewitt, Miller and Sullivan) - 5:00
 * 5) "Gun" (music by Hewitt and Rosenberg) - 4:03
 * 6) Interlude (instrumental) - 0:57
 * 7) "College Envy" (music by Alfredo Hernández and Rosenberg) - 6:03
 * 8) "Bodies" (music by Hewitt and Rosenberg) - 3:56
 * 9) "Keep It Dark" (music by Hewitt and Rosenberg) - 6:52
 * 10) "Blame It on the Rain" (music by Hewitt, Rosenberg and Sullivan) - 5:00
 * 11) "Wrong Moment, Right Place" (music by Hewitt and Rosenberg) - 5:42
 * 12) "Volcano World" (lyrics co-written by Sullivan; music by Hewitt, Langley and Rosenberg) - 3:32
 * 13) "All by Myself" (lyrics and music by Sullivan) - 2:58
 * 14) "Double Team" (written by Jack Black and Kyle Gass) - 3:08
 * 15) *"Don't Change Your Plans" (hidden track) (lyrics co-written by Sullivan; music by Langley) - 5:08

DVD

 * Disc one
 * Red Rocks concert (May 22, 2004, except (*) recorded in May 23)
 * "Blame it on the Rain"
 * "Bad Company"
 * "Mad World"
 * "Animal Kingdom"
 * "Misery, Inc." (early version)
 * "Suit"
 * "Big Time"
 * "Spiders"
 * "Blow" (*)
 * "I Can't Explain"
 * "Big Devil"
 * "Sandbox"
 * "Volcano World"
 * "Faithful" (*)
 * "Agoraphobia"
 * "Bodies"
 * "Sofasleeping"
 * "Death Cab" (*)
 * "Gun"
 * "Double Team"

Special features:
 * Extra Vancouver concert
 * "Fifty Shades of Grey"
 * "Tequila Song"
 * "Keep It Dark"
 * Low-budget videos
 * Tour diary


 * Disc two
 * "Making of Hold Your Country" (documentary)
 * Berlin concert (somewhere in 2004)
 * Music videos
 * "Suit"
 * "Animal Kingdom"
 * "Big Time"
 * "Volcano World"
 * "Bodies"
 * Studio recording sessions
 * Easter eggs

Personnel

 * Bulla
 * Jim Hewitt - drums, percussion, cuíca on "Blame it on the Rain", tubular bells on "Fifty Shades of Grey", steel drum (on "Sometimes"), clavinet and talkbox on "Blame it on the Rain", sound effects on "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Volcano World", bongos on "All by Myself", backing vocals (2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, "Burn", "Don't Change Your Plans", "Sometimes" and "Stupid Girl")
 * John Langley - bass, modular synth on "Gun", organ and piano plucking on "Volcano World", additional effects, trumpet on "Wrong Moment, Right Place", background vocals (1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 14, "Burn", "Don't Change Your Plans" and "Stupid Girl")
 * Brian Rosenberg - lead (background on "All by Myself", "Double Team", "High Noon" and "Stupid Girl") vocals (all except the interlude, "Wrong Moment, Right Place", "All by Myself", "Double Team", "High Noon", "Don't Change Your Plans" and "Stupid Girl"), acoustic and electric guitars
 * Mike Sullivan - lead (on "Wrong Moment, Right Place", "All by Myself", "Double Team", "High Noon" and "Don't Change Your Plans"), keyboards, electric guitar (on "Volcano World", "All by Myself" and "Double Team") and background (2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) vocals, MPC2000 sampler, Rhodes piano (on "Evil Inside", "Fifty Shades of Grey", "Bodies", "All by Myself", "Burn", "High Noon" and "Sometimes") , harmonium (on "Gun" and "Evil Inside") , programming, vocoder on "Evil Inside", sound effects and strings arrangement on "Fifty Shades of Grey"


 * Additional musicians
 * Michael Phillip Wojewoda - additional guitar, keyboards, percussion
 * Ana Lenchantin, David Daniels, Jonathan Williams, Linnea Olsson, Martin Loveday - cello
 * Bruce White, Rachel Bolt - viola
 * Antonella Pareschi, Bernardo Bessler, Debbie Widdup, Julian Leaper, Marie Christine Bessler, Paz Lenchantin, Petra Haden - violins


 * Equipments
 * Jim Hewitt: Pearl drum kit and Vic Firth drumsticks
 * John Langley:
 * Basses: Fender Jazz/Precision, Ibanez and MusicMan
 * Pedals: Behringer Bod400, Boss CEB-3, Boss ME-50B, Boss Od-30, Dunlop Fuzz Face and MXR Fuzz Bass Deluxe
 * Stanley Miller: Danelectro (Vintage Baritone), Fender Stratocaster (HSS MN Black), Grestch (Electromatic SG), PRS (Custom 24) and Rickenbacker (360 Thinline); BOSS Chorus CH-1 and SD-1, and Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
 * Mike Sullivan:
 * Keyboards: Roland (E09 and Juno-D) and Yamaha PSR-450
 * Guitar: Gibson SG Deluxe 71
 * Piano: Fender Rhodes 1973


 * Production
 * Bulla - production
 * Michael Phillip Wojewoda - production, recording
 * Chris Lord-Alge - mixing
 * Joe Gastwirt - mastering
 * Craig Hoover, David Cohen, Kevin Sullivan and Will Canterbury - technical assistance