Hold Time (album)

Hold Time is the sixth proper studio album from M. Ward, released on February 17, 2009. Hold Time is the follow-up to his 2006 album Post-War and its companion EP To Go Home in 2007.

Hold Time includes guest performances by Jason Lytle of the band Grandaddy, Lucinda Williams, Tom Hagerman of DeVotchKa, and She & Him co-contributor Zooey Deschanel. The album includes a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Rave On". A streaming preview was made available through NPR before the album's release. M. Ward also made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on February 17, 2009.

Track listing

 * 1) "For Beginners" – 2:47
 * 2) "Never Had Nobody Like You" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) – 2:26
 * 3) "Jailbird" – 2:31
 * 4) "Hold Time" – 3:05
 * 5) "Rave On" (Featuring Zooey Deschanel) (Norman Petty, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West) – 3:35
 * 6) "To Save Me" (Featuring Jason Lytle)– 3:01
 * 7) "One Hundred Million Years" – 2:11
 * 8) "Stars of Leo" – 3:18
 * 9) "Fisher of Men" – 3:12
 * 10) "Oh Lonesome Me" (Featuring Lucinda Williams) (Don Gibson) – 6:05
 * 11) "Epistemology" – 3:49
 * 12) "Blake's View" – 2:29
 * 13) "Shangri-La" – 2:20
 * 14) "Outro (AKA: I'm a Fool to Want You)" (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf) – 3:47

Personnel

 * M. Ward – voice, guitar, keyboards, bass, string arrangements
 * Mike Coykendall – bass, percussion
 * Adam Selzer, Jordan Hudson, Rachel Blumberg, Than Luu – percussion
 * Peter Broderick, Tom Hagerman – strings, violins
 * Bill Ritchie – upright bass
 * Mike Mogis – percussion, bells, mandolin, keyboards
 * Dave Campbell – cello
 * Allison Stewart – viola
 * Elin Palmer – violin
 * Zooey Deschanel – vocals on "Never Had Nobody Like You" and "Rave On"
 * Jason Lytle – vocals, keyboards, and guitar on "To Save Me"
 * Lucinda Williams – vocals on "Oh Lonesome Me"