Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Guardian UK	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.5/10)[2]
CD Baby	[3]
EW	(Favorable)[4]
Time Out London	[5]
Uncut UK	[6]
	(?)[7]
No Depression	(Favorable)[8]
Paste	[9]

We Walked in Song is the seventh studio album from The Innocence Mission.

The standard eleven-track album was released in North America on March 13, 2007 via Badman Recording Co., with a vinyl edition containing the bonus track "Shooting Star (Sketch)" following a week later on March 20. All international versions of the album include the bonus track as standard.

A European release containing three bonus tracks was commissioned later that year via the French-based Fargo record label. One of these exclusive recordings, "Song from Holland," was a new song recorded after the original album sessions and was sold as a one-track digital single by retailers such as iTunes and Amazon; while the other, "Do You See My Brothers Coming?," dates back to recording sessions from 2001.^[10]

Cover art[link]

The album was released with two different cover designs, both created by Karen Peris. The CD artwork features a young girl standing between two trees with vividly colored leaves. Karen stated on their website that the artwork was inspired by an image she had seen in Leo Lionni's picture book 'Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse.' Unable to figure out how Mr. Lionni painted such transparent pieces while also retaining vivid color schemes, Karen opted to paint the circles on mylar to create a similar effect. In the same post, she also mentioned that the young girl on the CD cover was unknown to her. She cut the image out of an old French-language text book she had found at a library book sale. The name of the photographer or identity of the young girl was not stated and she "had to hope that [they] would not mind my using the lovely photo."^[11]

The vinyl edition contained expansive artwork featuring a group of people painted using the same mylar technique used to create the leaves on the CD artwork. Since the people are placed onto the surface of the cover with a removable sticky-adhesive, the individual people could be removed from the cover and placed back onto the sleeve in any order. This feature is only found on North American editions of the vinyl, since internationally-printed editions of the vinyl were made with standard glue.

Tracklisting[link]

Bonus tracks[link]

All songs written by Karen Peris.

Release history[link]

Chart performance[link]

Album – Charting positions

Note: The sales listed above only include physical copies bought at Nielsen SoundScan-enabled physical retailers for the weeks running March 14 until March 28, 2007. This excludes copies bought directly from The Innocence Mission's and Badman's official websites – which would be seen as the biggest sellers of Innocence Mission-related material, since many larger stores such as HMV don't stock their material.^[13]

Personnel[link]

• Karen Peris: Vocals, Guitars, Field Pump Organ, Piano and Hammond Organ
• Don Peris: Guitars, Background Vocals, Drums and Hammond Organ
• Mike Bitts: Upright and Electric Bass
• Hunter Johnson: Additional Drums on "Lake Shore Drive"
• Engineered and Mixed by Don Peris
• Mastered by Shawn Hatfield

References[link]

External links[link]

• We Walked In Song at Fargo.

Robert Krulwich
Krulwich at "Postopolis!", 2005
Show	Radiolab
Station(s)	WNYC
Style	Host
Country	United States

Robert Krulwich is an American radio and television journalist whose specialty is explaining complex topics in depth. He has worked as a full-time employee of ABC, CBS, National Public Radio, and Pacifica. He has done assignment pieces for ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, as well as PBS's Frontline, NOVA, and NOW with Bill Moyers. TV Guide called him "the most inventive network reporter in television", and New York Magazine wrote that he's "the man who simplifies without being simple".

Background[link]

Krulwich received his bachelor's degree in U.S. history from Oberlin College in 1969 and his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1974. Just two months later, he abandoned his pursuit of a law career to cover the Watergate hearings for Pacifica Radio. In 1976, he became Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone.

From 1978 to 1985, he was the business and economics correspondent for NPR. Among other creative efforts, he recorded an opera called "Rato Interesso" to explain interest rates. He went on to host the PBS arts series The Edge.

In 1984, he joined CBS and appeared regularly on This Morning, 48 Hours, and Nightwatch with Charlie Rose. During the first Gulf War, he co-anchored the CBS program America Tonight. In 1994, he joined ABC.

Annually, he hosts a semi-fictional year-in-review program called Backfire for NPR. In 1995, at the invitation of President and Mrs. Clinton, the group who collaborates with Krulwich to produce Backfire performed at the White House.

In 1999 he hosted an eight-part primetime series for ABC "Nightline" called Brave New World (which frequently featured his friends, They Might Be Giants, as musical guests).

Krulwich, in 2004, became the host and managing editor of the innovative PBS science program "NOVA scienceNOW". The show often tackled science stories considered too complex for television, sometimes using cartoons and musical production numbers to illustrate abstract concepts. In 2005, Krulwich re-established a relationship with NPR, where he made regular contributions to several programs on science topics, while continuing to produce occasional segments for ABC News. By early 2006, with several projects going at once, Krulwich decided to end his work on NOVA scienceNOW after only five episodes.

Krulwich regularly moderates discussions on scientific topics at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. (He is an alumnus of their nursery school.) His presentations at the YMHA have featured such prominent scientists as Brian Greene and James D. Watson.

He is a regular correspondent on the PBS investigative series Frontline. Krulwich substitutes for the hosts of NPR's magazine shows, and he co-hosts the Radiolab program with Jad Abumrad.

Awards and honors[link]

In his Frontline role, he has won a Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for his coverage of campaign finance in the 1992 U.S. Presidential campaign; a national Emmy Award for his investigation of privacy on the Internet, High Stakes in Cyberspace; and a George Polk Award for an hour on the savings and loan scandal. His ABC special on Barbie also won an Emmy.

He has received a multitude of other awards for his reporting, including the Extraordinary Communicator Award from the National Cancer Institute in 2000, four consecutive Gainsbrugh Awards from the Economics Broadcasting Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Excellence in Television Award in 2001 for a NOVA special on the human genome. He also won the 2001 AAAS Science Journalism Award for his NOVA special, Cracking the Code of Life.

TV Guide named Krulwich to its "all-star reporting team". He was included in Esquire's "Registry of Outstanding Men and Women" in 1989.

In 2010, WNYC received a Peabody Award for RadioLab.

Personal life[link]

Krulwich lives in New York City and Shelter Island, NY with his wife, Tamar Lewin, a national reporter for the New York Times. They have two children, Jesse (who graduated from Earlham College in 2007) and Nora Ann (Bowdoin College, Class of 2011). The couple was featured in Act 2 of Episode 226 ("Reruns") of the Chicago Public Radio program This American Life recounting their separate (and divergent) accounts of an event in their lives.

References[link]

• Krulwich radio archive
• NOVA Science NOW
• ABC News Bio
• NPR Bio
• Radiolab