When I Woke

When I Woke
Studio album by Rusted Root
Released	August 23, 1994
Genre	Rock
Length	58:45
Label	PolyGram
Rusted Root chronology
Cruel Sun (1991) When I Woke (1994) Remember (1996)

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When I Woke is the second album and major-label debut of the American world rock band, Rusted Root. It has since been certified Platinum in the United States.

Track listing

All songs written by Michael Glabicki and Rusted Root except where noted.

1. "Drum Trip" – 3:45
2. "Ecstasy" – 5:02
3. "Send Me on My Way" – 4:23
4. "Cruel Sun" – 8:00
5. "Cat Turned Blue" (Glabicki, Wertz) – 3:43
6. "Beautiful People" – 4:10
7. "Martyr" – 4:26
8. "Rain" – 3:43
9. "Food & Creative Love" – 4:13
10. "Lost in a Crowd" – 4:01
11. "Laugh as the Sun" – 5:59
12. "Infinite Tamboura" – 1:53
13. "Back to the Earth" (Bunyak, Glabicki, Wertz) – 5:27

Success of "Send Me on My Way"

The third track, "Send Me on My Way", was the most commercially popular single released by the band. The song hit #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. It has since maintained wide recognition through its frequent use in motion picture soundtracks, and in other media, including:

• Ban Cuss (1995)
• Two Guys Talkin' About Girls (video) [a.k.a. At First Sight] (1995)
• Matilda (1996)
• Pie in the Sky (1996)
• Race the Sun (1996)
• The Theory of Flight (1998)
• Ice Age (2002)
• Standing Still (2005)
• YTV Canada's Are We There Yet?: World Adventure
• The theme song of the successful Israeli sitcom Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol.
• Chuck (2011)
• Featured song in campaign for Enterprise Rent-A-Car (2011)
• Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

NASA engineers also chose the song as "wake-up" music for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, for Sol 21.