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Studio album by Ben Harper
Released February 8, 1994
Recorded The Convent
Genre Blues, folk, alternative rock
Length 50:25
Label Virgin
Producer Ben Harper, Jean-Pierre Plunier
Ben Harper chronology
Welcome to the Cruel World
(1994) Fight for Your Mind
(1995)
Welcome to the Cruel World is Ben Harper`s debut album from Virgin Records. Released in 1994, the album established Harper as a popular folk musician in the California area. After this release, Harper went on to add a permanent backing band, the Innocent Criminals, although they remained unnamed until the Burn to Shine album. The song `I`ll Rise` is based on a 1978 Maya Angelou poem `And Still I Rise`.

Track listing
All songs written by Ben Harper except as noted.

`The Three of Us` – 2:35
`Whipping Boy` (Chris Darrow) – 5:31
`Breakin` Down` (Harper, music: Jean-Pierre Plunier) – 4:00
`Don`t Take That Attitude to Your Grave` – 4:25
`Waiting on an Angel` – 3:53
`Mama`s Got a Girlfriend Now` – 2:29
`Forever` – 3:23
`Like a King` – 4:18
`Pleasure and Pain` – 3:44
`Walk Away` – 3:49
`How Many Miles Must We March` – 3:07
`Welcome to the Cruel World` – 5:36
`I`ll Rise` (lyrics: Maya Angelou; music: Harper) – 3:35
Contains the hidden track `...By and By I`m Going to See the King` (Blind Willie Johnson) – 0:30
`Remember - unreleased version (bonus track) - 2:49
Personnel
Music credits
Ben Harper - vocals, acoustic guitar, Weissenborn guitar, dobro
Richard Cook - Uillean pipes on `Pleasure and Pain`
Rock Deadrick - percussion, drums, backing vocals
Tom Freund
Suzie Katayama - cello on `Pleasure and Pain`
John McKnight - bass, accordion on `Mama`s Got a Girlfriend Now`
Tommy D. Daugherty - drum programming
Gail Deadrick - piano on `I`ll Rise`
Clabe Hangan, Clarence Butler, John Taylor, Kenneth McDaniel, Clyde Allen, Jelanie Jones, Kevin Williams - backing vocals
Production credits
Producers: Ben Harper, J.P. Plunier
Associate producer: Jeff Gottlieb, Mikal Reid
Engineer: Mikal Reid
Assistant engineer: Bradley Cook
Mixing: Mikal Reid
Mastering: Eddy Schreyer
Advisor: Ben Elder
Art direction: Tom Dolan, J.P. Plunier
Research: Ben Elder
Photography: Jeff Gottlieb