• Portuguese: frágil
• Spanish: frágil

• Portuguese: fraco

Noun

1. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
2. The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
3. A rush for weaving baskets.

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Verb

1. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

Frail is the title of the demo album that Jars Of Clay released in 1994 when they were still students at Greenville College. Only 1,500 copies of the album were pressed and have long been sold out. It is now considered a collector's item among the band's fans, with copies being sold on eBay at prices well over the original selling price. Of the album's nine tracks, seven of them were re-recorded for the band's debut album, Jars Of Clay, while the other two ("Fade To Grey" and "Frail") were re-recorded for their second album, Much Afraid.

Track listing

1. "Liquid" - 3:23
2. "Boy On A String (Sunflower Song)" - 3:28
3. "Art In Me" - 3:39
4. "He" - 5:15
5. "Fade To Grey" - 4:54
6. "Frail" - 4:05
7. "Like A Child" - 4:48
8. "Love Song For A Savior" - 4:37
9. "Four Seven" - 2:46

Performance Credits

• Dan Haseltine - vocals, keyboards,
• Stephen Mason - guitars, background vocals, bass, sampling
• Charlie Lowell - keyboards
• Matt Bronleewe - guitars
• Tim Erwin - background vocals (on "Love Song For A Savior")
• Brian McDonough - drums (on "Liquid")
• Jeremy Bosa - recorder (on "Like A Child")
• Bridget Wintermann - violin (on "Like A Child")
• Joe Porter - tambourine (on "Fade To Grey")
• Tim Hiber - beats

Technical Credits

• Tim Erwin - producer
• Stephen Leiweke - producer, Mac editing, mastering
• Charlie Lowell - engineering
• Joe Porter - engineering (on "Fade To Grey")
• Virginia Peters - artwork
• Brad Roseberry - photography
• Joe Silvey - photography
• Seth Carrington - photography

References

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