Cruel Sun
# Cruel Sun

Professional ratings :

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| AllMusic | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | |

Cruel Sun is the debut album by the band Rusted Root, released in 1992.

The album sold over 100,000 copies, which led to the band's major label recording contract.

## Album cover

The album cover depicts a stylized image of the disc of Mictlantecuhtli, a Teotihuacan monolith, currently housed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

* Disc of Mictlantecuhtli

## Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "despite the assistance of assorted sprites and faeries, Rusted Root’s rhythmic world music-influenced drivel is better suited for a Pringles commercial than a tribal gathering." MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "an incredibly well-realized indie debut."

## Track listing

All songs written by Michael Glabicki except where noted.

* "Primal Scream" (Bendin, Berlin, Glabicki) - 5:10
* "Send Me on My Way" - 4:57
* "Tree" (Berlin, Gablicki, Wertz) - 8:00
* "Won't Be Long" - 3:13
* "!@#*" - 0:40
* "Cat Turned Blue" - 4:03
* "Artificial Winter" - 3:37
* "Where She Runs" - 9:21
* "Martyr" - 5:19
* "Back to the Earth" (Buynak, Wertz, Glabicki) - 5:48
* "Scattered" - 4:34

## Personnel

* Liz Berlin – Percussion, Drums, Vocals, Hand Drums
* John Buynak – Percussion, Drums, Vocals, Wind Instruments, Hand Drums
* Jim Donovan – Percussion, Drums, Hand Drums
* Michael Glabicki – Guitar, Vocals, Mixing
* Patrick Norman – Percussion, Bass Guitar, Sitar, Vocals
* Jenn Wertz – Percussion, Vocals

### Production

* Dave Bryan – Producer, Mixing
* Lara Lampenfield – Photography, Sleeve Photo
* Mike Michalski – Producer
* Randy Rhodes – Engineer
* Mark McNeely – Assistant Engineer
* Rusted Root – Writer, Producer

Recorded at Audiomation Studios in Pittsburgh, PA

