Rites of Passage (Indigo Girls album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Chicago Tribune	[5]
Down Beat	[6]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[7]
Q	[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]

The Washington Post wrote that "the arrangements ... are more colorful and punchy, and every now and then the duo even manages to inject a little welcome humor into its otherwise dreary musings."[2] Trouser Press wrote that producer Peter Collins expunges "the folk patina to reveal a crystalline mainstream pop center around the snappy, subtle rhythms of bassist Sara Lee and drummer Jerry Marotta."[1]

Indigo Girls

• Amy Ray – vocals, guitars
• Emily Saliers – vocals, guitars

Additional personnel

• Sara Lee – bass on 1 2 3 4 8 9 11 12 13 & bonus 1 2
• Budgie – drums on 1 9, percussion on 1 9, marimba on 8, claves on 8
• Lisa Germano – fiddle on 1 2 11 12
• Ronan Browne – uilleann pipes on 1 13, low whistle2 on 12
• Dónal Lunny – bouzouki on 1 13, bodhran on 1 13
• Jerry Marotta – drums on 2 3 6 9 11 12 13 & bonus 1 2, percussion on 2 3 6 9 10 11 12 13 & bonus 1 2, piano on 2
• Talvin Singh – percussion on 2 6 11 12
• Martin McCarrick – cello on 2 8 11 12, accordion on 2 8 11 12
• Jackson Browne – backing vocals on 2 12
• David Crosby – backing vocals on 2 12
• John Jennings – electric guitar on 3 9 12, slide guitar on 13
• Simone Simonton – cymbals on 3, sidestick on 3
• Jai Winding – piano on 3
• Michael Kamen – string arrangements on 3, conductor on 3
• Kenny Aronoff – drums on 4, percussion on 4
• Benmont Tench – organ on 4
• Edgar Meyer – acoustic bass on 6 8 9
• Maggie Roche – backing vocals on 8 10, piano on 10
• Terre Roche – backing vocals on 8 10
• Suzzy Roche – backing vocals on 8 10
• Michael Lorant – backing vocals on 9
• Sandy Garfinkle – harmonica on 11
• Nollaig Ní Chathasaigh – Irish fiddle on 12 13
• Jane Scarpantoni – cello on bonus 1 2
• Scarlet Rivera – violin on bonus 1 2

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