Yearly Archives: 2024

Del Shannon: This Is My Bag

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In July 1966, “Liberty” label released “This Is My Bag”, the seventh Del Shannon studio album. It was recorded in 1966, and was produced by Snuff Garrett.

Personnel:

  • Del Shannon – vocal
  • Leon Russell – arrangements
  • Nick De Caro – arrangements
  • Dave Hassinger – engineer 
  • Henry Lewy – engineer
  • Joe Sidore – lacquer cut
  • Woody Woodward – art direction
  • Ivan Nagy – cover photography

Track listing:

  1. The Big Hurt – Wayne Shanklin
  2. Kicks – Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
  3. For a Little While – Del Shannon
  4. Lightnin’ Strikes – Lou Christie, Twyla Herbert
  5. When You Walk in the Room – Jackie DeShannon
  6. The Cheater – John Krenski
  7. Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison, Bill Dees
  8. Everybody Loves a Clown – Snuff Garrett, Gary Lewis, Leon Russell
  9. Never Thought I Could – Del Shannon
  10. It’s Too Late – Bobby Goldsboro
  11. Hey! Little Star – Del Shannon
  12. Action – Tommy Boyce, Steve Venet

Guy Clark: My Favorite Picture Of You

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On July 23, 2013, “Dualtone” label released “My Favorite Picture of You” the fourteenth and final Guy Clark studio album. In 2014, “My Favorite Picture of You” won “Grammy Award” for “Best Folk Album”.

Personnel:

  • Guy Clark – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Shawn Camp – banjo, fiddle, acoustic and resonator guitar, mandolin, octave fiddle, backing vocals
  • Chris Latham – acoustic and resonator guitar, viola, violin, backing vocals
  • Verlon Thompson – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Noel McKay – nylon string guitar
  • Gordie Sampson – acoustic guitar
  • Bryn Davies – bass guitar, cello, backing vocals
  • Morgane Stapleton – backing vocals
  • Chris Latham – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Mark Richardson – lacquer cut
  • Gina R. Binkley – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Guy Clark.

  1. Cornmeal Waltz
  2. My Favorite Picture of You
  3. Gell Beny on a Heartache
  4. El Coyote
  5. Heroes
  6. Rain in Durango
  7. Good Advice
  8. The Death of Sis Draper
  9. Waltzing Fool
  10. The High Price of Inspiration
  11. I’ll Show Me

Ethan Iverson: Costumes Are Mandatory

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On July 23, 2013, “High Note” label released “Costumes Are Mandatory”, the sixth Ethan Iverson album. It was recorded in August 2012, at “Brooklyn Recording” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Ethan Iverson.

Personnel:

  • Ethan Iverson – piano, liner notes
  • Lee Konitz – vocals, alto saxophone
  • Larry Grenadier – bass
  • Jorge Rossy – drums
  • Pete Rende – engineer
  • Kevin Blackler – mastering
  • Brad Wrolstad – design
  • Julie Worden – cover photography
  • John Rogers – personal photography’s 
  • Joe Fields – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Ethan Iverson, except where noted.

  1. Blueberry Ice Cream (Take 2)
  2. Try a Little Tenderness – Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly
  3. It’s You (Tempo Complex) – Lee Konitz
  4. It’s You – Lee Konitz
  5. What’s New? – Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke
  6. 317 East 32nd – Lee Konitz
  7. Body and Soul – Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton
  8. Blueberry Hill – Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Al Lewis
  9. A Distant Bell
  10. Bats
  11. Mr. Bumi
  12. My New Lovers All Seem So Tame
  13. My Old Flame – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
  14. Blueberry Ice Cream (Take 1)

Billy Squier: Emotions In Motion

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On July 23, 1982, “Capitol” label released “Emotions in Motion”, the third Billy Squier studio album. It was recorded in 1982, and was produced by Reinhold Mack and Billy Squier.

Personnel:

  • Billy Squier – lead vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Kevin Osborn – guitars
  • Jeff Golub – guitars
  • Alan St. Jon – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
  • Doug Lubahn – bass, backing vocals
  • Bobby Chouinard – drums
  • Dino Solera – saxophones
  • Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor – backing vocals, “emotional” support
  • Gary Rindfuss – engineer
  • David Thoener – mixing
  • Jim Ball – mixing assistant
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Andy Warhol – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Billy Squier.

  1. Everybody Wants You
  2. Emotions in Motion
  3. Learn How to Live
  4. In Your Eyes
  5. Keep Me Satisfied
  6. It Keeps You Rockin’
  7. One Good Woman
  8. She’s a Runner
  9. Catch 22
  10. Listen to the Heartbeat

Firesign Theater: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers

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On July 22, 1970, “Columbia” label released “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers”, the third Firesign Theatre album. It was recorded April – May 1970, and was produced by Bill Driml, Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Phil Proctor. In 1983, “The New Rolling Stone Record Guide” called it “The Greatest Comedy Album Ever Made”. In 2005, the “US Library of Congress” added the album to the “National Recording Registry” and called the Firesign Theatre “The Beatles of Comedy.”

Personnel:

  • Phil Austin
  • Peter Bergman
  • David Ossman
  • Phil Proctor
  • Anna-Lee Austin – spoken parts
  • Thaddeus Warrick and the Mindermast Mental Music Hall One-Man Sympathy Orchestra
  • The St. Louis Aquarium Choraleers (including Anna-Lee Austin, Jane Dansie, Tiny Ossman, Elisabeth Plumb, John Kinick, Cathleen O’Mara)
  • The Android Sisters
  • Robert Grossman – cover art
  • John Rose, Elisabeth Plumb – back cover photography
  • James William Guercio – co-production

Track listing:

All tracks by Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Phil Proctor

  1. This Side
  2. The Other Side

Nina Nastasia: Riderless Horse

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On July 22, 2022, “Temporary Residence Limited” label released “Riderless Horse”, the seventh Nina Nastasia studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Steve Albini, Nina Nastasia and Greg Norman.

Personnel:

  • Nina Nastasia – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Steve Albini – engineer
  • Greg Norman – engineer assistant
  • Elizabeth Neel – painting
  • Dave Thomas (as DLT) – layout, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Nina Nastasia.

  1. Cork and Pour
  2. Just Stay in Bed
  3. You Were So Mad
  4. This Is Love
  5. Nature
  6. Lazy Road
  7. Ask Me
  8. Blind as Batsies
  9. The Two of Us
  10. Go Away
  11. The Roundabout
  12. Trust
  13. Afterwards
  14. Creek and Chimes

Ben Harper: Bloodline Maintenance

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On July 22, 2022, “Chrysalis” label released “Bloodline Maintenance”, the 16th Ben Harper album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Sheldon Gomberg and Ben Harper.

Personnel:

  • Ben Harper – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, arrangements
  • Chris Joyner – keyboards
  • Jason Yates – keyboards, congas
  • Anna Butterss – bass guitar
  • DJ Johnny Juice – drums, percussion, turntable
  • Jimmy Paxson – drums, additional percussion
  • Leon Mobley – percussion
  • Geoff Burke – flute, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, horn and woodwind arrangements
  • Bruce Harris – trumpet
  • Larry Goldings – clavinet 
  • De’Ante Duckett – backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Alethea Mills – backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Chavonne Stewart – backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Kevin Smith – engineer
  • Jason Gossman – additional engineering
  • Sheldon Gomberg – additional engineering, mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Jackie Phillips – artwork, design
  • Michael Halsband – back cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ben Harper

  1. Below Sea Level
  2. We Need to Talk About It
  3. Where Did We Go Wrong
  4. Problem Child
  5. Need to Know Basis
  6. It Aint No Use
  7. More Than Love
  8. Smile at the Mention
  9. Honey, Honey
  10. Knew the Day Was Comin’
  11. Maybe I Can’t

Ty Segall: Hello, Hi

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On July 22, 2022, “Drag City” label released “Hello, Hi”, the fourteenth Ty Segall studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Cooper Crain.

Personnel:

  • Ty Segall – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, electric piano, drums, recording
  • Ben Boye – Rhodes piano
  • Charles Moothart – drums
  • Mikal Cronin – saxophone
  • Cooper Crain – recording
  • JJ Golden – lacquer cut
  • Denée Segall – artwork, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ty Segall.

  1. Good Morning
  2. Cement
  3. Over
  4. Hello, Hi
  5. Blue
  6. Looking at You
  7. Don’t Lie
  8. Saturday Pt. 1
  9. Saturday Pt. 2
  10. Distraction

Hubert Laws: Wild Flower

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On July 22, 1972, “Atlantic” label released “Wild Flower”, the seventh Hubert Laws album. It was recorded October – November 1971, in New York City, and was produced by Joel Dorn.

Personnel:

  • Hubert Laws – flute, alto flute, piccolo, electric flute
  • Chick Corea – piano
  • Gary Burton – vibraphone
  • Ron Carter, Richard Davis – double bass
  • Bernard Purdie – drums
  • Ramon “Mongo” Santamaría – congas
  • Joe Chambers, Airto Moreira, Warren Smith – percussion
  • Bernard Eichen, Paul Gershman, Harry Lookofsky, Guy Lumia, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, John Pintavalle, Matthew Raimondi, Aaron Rosand – violin
  • Julian Barber, Selwart Clarke, Harold Coletta, Richard Dickler, Harry Zaratzian – viola
  • Seymour Barab, Richard Bock, Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman – cello
  • John Murtaugh – arrangements, conductor

Track listing:

  1. Wild Flower – John Murtaugh
  2. Pensativa – Clare Fischer
  3. Equinox – John Coltrane
  4. Ashanti – John Murtaugh
  5. Motherless Child – traditional
  6. Yoruba – John Murtaug

Blur: The Ballad Of Darren

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On July 21, 2023, “Parlaphone” label released “The Ballad of Darren”, the ninth Blur studio album. It was recorded January – May 2023, at “Studio 13” in London and Devon, and was produced by James Ford.

Personnel:

  • Damon Albarn – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, piano
  • Graham Coxon – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Alex James – bass guitar
  • Dave Rowntree – drums, backing vocals
  • James Ford – keyboards
  • Chris Storr – trumpet
  • Danny Marsden – trumpet
  • Alistair White – trombone
  • Nichol Thompson – trombone
  • Kotono Sato – violin
  • Sarah Tuke – violin
  • Ciara Ismail – viola
  • Izzi Dunn – cello
  • Samuel Egglenton – engineer, additional production
  • Mat Bartram – strings engineering, brass engineering
  • Giacomo Vianello – engineering assistant
  • Luke Pickering – engineering assistant
  • David Wrench – mixing
  • Grace Banks – mixing assistant
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Martin Parr – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree.

  1. The Ballad
  2. St. Charles Square
  3. Barbaric
  4. Russian Strings
  5. The Everglades (for Leonard)
  6. The Narcissist
  7. Goodbye Albert
  8. Far Away Island
  9. Avalon
  10. The Heights