title: Cruel Sun
text: # Cruel Sun
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | 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
  
  