Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come Easy Go

On November 10, 2008, “Naïve Records” label released “Easy Come, Easy Go”, the 18th Marianne Faithfull album. It was recorded in 2008, “Sear Sound Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Hal Willner.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Barry Reynolds – guitars
  • Marc Ribot – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Keith Richards – vocals, guitar
  • Sean Lennon – vocals, guitars
  •  Gil Goldstein – piano, accordion, arrangements, string direction
  • Brian Mitchell – piano
  • Steve Weisberg – piano, electric piano, celesta, arrangements, conducting
  • Rob Burger – piano, organ
  • Greg Cohen – bass
  • Jim White – drums
  • Joey Baron – drums
  • Art Baron – bass recorder, trombone
  • Doug Wieselman – clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  • Ken Peplowski – bass clarinet
  • Marty Ehrlich – bass clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Lenny Pickett – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, sarrusophone, double bass
  • Steven Bernstein – glockenspiel, mellophone, alto brass, trumpet
  • Maxin Moston, Rob Moose – violin
  • Warren Ellis – violin, electric violin
  • Michael Nicholas – viola
  • Jane Scarpantoni – cello
  • Chan Marshall – vocals
  • Nick Cave – vocals
  • Antony Hegarty – vocals
  • Rufus Wainwright – vocals
  • Jarvis Cocker – vocals
  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle – backing vocals
  • Cat Power – backing vocals
  • Jean-Baptiste Mondino– art direction, photography

Track listing:

  1. Down from Dover – Dolly Parton
  2. Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
  3. Solitude – Duke Ellington
  4. The Crane Wife 3 – The Decemberists
  5. Easy Come, Easy Go – Bessie Smith
  6. Children of Stone – Espers
  7. How Many Worlds – Brian Eno
  8. In Germany Before the War – Randy Newman
  9. Ooh Baby Baby – Smokey Robinson
  10. Sing Me Back Home – Merle Haggard
  11. Salvation – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  12. Black Coffee – Sarah Vaughan
  13. The Phoenix – Judee Sill
  14. Dear God Please Help Me – Morrissey
  15. Kimbie – Jackson C. Frank
  16. Many a Mile to Freedom – Traffic
  17. Somewhere (A Place for Us) – Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
  18. Flandyke Shore – traditional

Fiona Apple: When The Pawn…

On November 9, 1999, “Epic” label released “When the Pawn…”, the second Fiona Apple studio album. It was recorded 1998 – 1999, and was produced by Jon Brion. In 2020, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked “When the Pawn…” at number 108 on its “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list.

Personnel:

  • Fiona Apple – vocals, piano, synthesized bass, art concept, design
  • Jon Brion – various instruments, engineer assistant, mixing
  • Mike Elizondo – bass
  • Greg Cohen – bass guitar
  • Jonathan “Butch” Norton, Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
  • Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion
  • Wendell Kelly, Jean Martinelli, John Noreyko, Paul Loredo – horns
  • Mike Breaux – woodwind
  • Patrick Warren – Chamberlin, Wurlitzer
  • Charlie Bisharat, Eve Butler, Susan Chatman, Armen Garabedian, Berj Garabedian, Peter Kent, Brian Leonard, Robert Peterson, Michele Richards, Edmund Stein, John Wittenberg – violin
  • Robert Becker, Denyse Buffman, Scott Haupert, Maria Newman – viola
  • Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama – cello
  • John Bainbridge – arrangements, orchestration
  • Tom Banghart, Rob Brill, Greg Collins, Bryan Jackson, Steve Mixdorf, John Tyree – engineer assistant
  • Rich Costey – mixing
  • Eddy Scheyer – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Fiona Apple.

  1. On the Bound
  2. To Your Love
  3. Limp
  4. Love Ridden
  5. Paper Bag
  6. A Mistake
  7. Fastr as You Can
  8. The Way Things Are
  9. Get Gone
  10. I Know

The Dave Matthews Band: Remember Two Things

On November 9, 1993, “Bama Rags” label released “Remember Two Things”, the debut Dave Matthews Band (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1993, at “Trax” in Charlottesville, “Flood Zone” in Richmond, “The Muse” in Nantucket, “Flat Five” in Salem, and was produced by John Alagia. In 2002, the album was certified Platinum in US by “RIIA”.

Personnel:

  • David Matthews – vocals, guitar
  • Stefan Lessard – bass guitar
  • Carter Beauford – vocals, percussion
  • LeRoi Moore – vocals, woodwinds
  • Boyd Tinsley – vocals, violin
  • Greg Howard – Chapman Stick, synthesizer, percussion samples
  • Tim Reynolds – guitars

Track listing:

All tracks by David Matthews, except where noted.

  1. Ants Marching
  2. Tripping Billies
  3. Recently
  4. Satellite
  5. One Sweet World
  6. The Song That Jane Likes – Mark Roebuck
  7. Minarets
  8. Seek Up
  9. I’ll Back You Up
  10. Christmas Song

The Damned: Machine Gun Etiquette

On November 9, 1979, “Chiswick” label released “Machine Gun Etiquette”, the third Damned (The) studio album. It was recorded March – August 1979, at “Sound Suite”, “Wessex Sound Studios”, “Utopia Studios”, “Workhouse Studios”, “SGS Studios” “Chalk Farm Studios”, and was produced by Roger Armstrong, Ed Hollis, Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies and Algy Ward.

Personnel:

  • Dave Vanian – lead vocals
  • Captain Sensible – lead and backing vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, mandolin, inner sleeve drawing
  • Algy Ward – bass, backing vocals
  • Rat Scabies – lead and backing vocals, drums
  • Lemmy Kilmister – bass, guitar, backing vocals 
  • Anthony More – synthesizer
  • Joe Strummer – backing vocals 
  • Topper Headon – backing vocals 
  • Henry Badowski – backing vocals 
  • Paul Simonon – hand claps
  • Alvin Clarke – engineer
  • Mike Shipley – engineer 
  • Gary Edwards – engineer 
  • Jeremy Green – engineer 
  • Rik Watton – engineer 
  • Damian Korner – engineer 
  • G. H. Wallis – engineer
  • Vic Keary – engineer 
  • Phil Smee – artwork
  • Alan Ballard – front cover photography
  • Mick Young – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Rat Scabies, Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian and Algy Ward, except where noted.

  1. Love Song
  2. Machine Gun Etiquette
  3. I Just Cam’t Be Happy Today – Rat Scabies, Captain Sensinble, Dave Vanian, Algy Ward, Giovanni Dadomo
  4. Melody Lee
  5. Anti-Pope – Rat Scabies, Captain Sensinble, Dave Vanian, Algy Ward, Phillip Burns
  6. These Hands
  7. Plan 9 Channel 7
  8. Noise, Noise, Noise – Rat Scabies, Captain Sensinble, Dave Vanian, Algy Ward, Jennet Ward
  9. Looking at You – Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred “Sonic” Smith, Dennis Thompson, Rob Tyner
  10. Liar
  11. Smash It Up (Part 1)
  12. Smash It Up (Part2)

Hank Williams: Hank Williams Sings

On November 9, 1951, “MGM” label released “Hank Williams Sings”, the debut Hank Williams album. It was recorded in December 1946, April – November 1947, March – August 1949, and was produced by Fred Rose.

Personnel:

  • Hank Williams -vocals, guitar
  • Zeb Turner – lead guitar
  • Zeke Turner – lead guitar
  • Jerry Byrd – steel guitar
  • Don Davis – steel guitar
  • Dale “Smokey” Lohman – steel guitar
  • Louis Innis – bass, rhythm guitar
  • Jack Shook – rhythm guitar
  • James “Guy” Willis – guitar
  • Tommy Jackson – fiddle
  • Dale Potter – fiddle
  • Charles “Skeeter” Willis – fiddle
  • Chubby Wise – fiddle
  • Ernie Newton – bass
  • Bronson “Brownie” Reynolds – bass
  • Velma Williams Smith – bass
  • Charles “Indian” Wright – bass

Track listing:

  1. Lost Highway – Leon Payne
  2. I’ve Just Told Mama Goodbye – Slim Sweet, Curley Kinsey
  3. I Saw the Light – Hank Willians
  4. Six Miles (To the Graveyard) – Hank Williams
  5. A Mansion on the Hill – Hank Williams
  6. Wealth Won’t Save Your Soul – Hank Williams
  7. Wedding Bells – Claude Boone
  8. A House Without Love – Hank Williams

Stephan Micus: Athos

On November 8, 1994, “ECM” label released “Athos”, the 14th Stephan Micus album. It was recorded November 1993 – February 1994, at “MCM Studios”, and was produced by Stephan Micus.

Personnel:

  • Stephan Micus – Bavarian zither, sattar, shakuhachi, suling, nay, 22 flowerpots, voice

Track listing:

  1. On the Way
  2. The First Night
  3. The First Day
  4. The Second Night
  5. The Second Day
  6. The Third Night
  7. The Third Day
  8. On the Way Back

Cat Stevens: Saturnight

On November 8, 1974, “A&M” label released (only in Japan) “Saturnight”, the first Cat Stevens live album. It was recorded in June 1974, at “Sunplaza Hall”, Nakano, Tokyo, and was produced by Cat Stevens. All the proceeds from the album went to support UNICEF.

Personnel:

  • Cat Stevens – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • Alun Davies – guitar, backing vocals
  • Larry Steele – guitars, percussion, backing vocals
  • Jim Cregan – guitar
  • Jean Roussel – keyboards
  • Bruce Lynch – bass guitar
  • Gerry Conway – drums, percussion
  • Anna Peacock – backing vocals
  • Suzanne Lynch – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Cat Stevens, except where noted.

  1. Wild World
  2. Oh Very Young
  3. Sitting
  4. Where Do the Children Play?
  5. Lady D’Arbanville
  6. Another Saturday Night – Sam Cooke
  7. Hard Headed Woman
  8. Peace Train
  9. Father and Son
  10. King of Trees
  11. A Bad Penny
  12. Bitterblue

Diana Ross & The Supremes And The Temptations: Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations

On November 6, 1968, “Motown” label released “Diana Ross & the Supremes Join the Temptations”, album by Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations. It was recorded May – September 1968, and was produced by  Frank Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland, Henry Cosby, Terry “Buzzy” Johnson, Nickolas Ashford and Deke Richards.

Personnel:

  • Diana Ross & The Supremes – vocals
  • The Temptations – vocals
  • Mary Wilson, Cindy Birdsong, Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams, The Andantes – backing vocals
  • The Funk Brothers – instrumentation
  • Detroit Symphony Orchestra – horns, strings
  • Los Angeles area session musicians – instrumentation

Track listing:

  1. Try It Baby – Berry Gordy
  2. I Second That Emotion – Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland
  3. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
  4. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Ross
  5. This Guy’s in Love With You – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  6. Funky Broadway – Arlester Christian
  7. I’ll Try Something New – Smokey Robinson
  8. A Place in the Sun – Ron Miller, Bryan Wells
  9. Sweet Inspiration – Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham
  10. Then – Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore
  11. The Impossible Dream – Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh

Warne Marsh: Same

In November 1958, “Atlantic” label released the self-titled, third Warne Marsh album. It was recorded December 1957 – January 1958, in New York City, and was produced by Lennie Tristano.

Personnel:

  • Warne Marsh – tenor saxophone
  • Ronnie Ball – piano
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Philly Joe Jones, Paul Motian – drums

Track listing:

  1. Too Close for Comfort – Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss
  2. Yardbird Suite – Charlie Parker
  3. It’s All Right with Me – Cole Porter
  4. My Melancholy Baby – Ernie Burnett, George Norton
  5. Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don’t Tease Me) – Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines
  6. Excerpt – Warne Marsh

Stan Getz And J. J. Johnson: Stan Gets And J. J. Johnson At The Opera House

In November 1957, “Verve” label released “Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House”, album by Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson. It was recorded September – October 1957, in Chicago and Los Angeles, and was produced by Norman Granz. “Verve” released two different versions of the same material, recorded by the same musicians, one recording was mono and the other was stereo.

Personnel:

  • Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
  • J.J. Johnson – trombone
  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Connie Kay – drums

Track listing:

Mono recording

  1. Billie’s Bounce – Charlie Parker
  2. My Funny Valentine – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  3. Crazy Rhythm – Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn
  4. Yesterdays – Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach
  5. It Never Entered My Mind – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  6. Blues In the Closet – Oscar Pettiford

Stereo recording

  1. Billie’s Bounce – Charlie Parker
  2. My Funny Valentine – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  3. Crazy Rhythm – Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Wolfe Kahn
  4. It Never Entered My Mind – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  5. Blues In the Closet – Oscar Pettiford

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