Foghat: Tight Shoes

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On May 28, 1980, “Bearsville” label released “Tight Shoes”, the ninth Foghat studio album. It was recorded in 1979, at “Foghat Studios” in Port Jefferson, New York, and was produced by Don Berman, Tony Outeda, Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Craig MacGregor and Roger Earl.

Personnel:

  • Dave Peverett – vocals, rhythm guitar, design concept
  • Rod Price – lead and slide guitar
  • Craig MacGregor – bass guitar
  • Roger Earl – drums
  • Don Berman – engineer, mixing
  • Bob Coffee – engineer
  • Jorge Ripley – engineer assistant
  • Tony Outeda – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Peverett.

  1. Stranger in My Home Town
  2. Loose Ends
  3. Full Time Lover
  4. Baby I Can Change Your Mind
  5. Too Late the Hero
  6. Dead End Street
  7. Be My Woman
  8. No Hard Feelings

Wilco: Cruel Country

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On May 27, 2022, “dBpm Records” label released “Cruel Country”, the twelfth Wilco studio album. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, at “The Loft” in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Tom Schick, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgansen, Nels Cline and Pat Sansone.

Personnel:

  • Jeff Tweedy – vocals, guitar, design
  • Pat Sansone – guitar, arrangements
  • Nels Cline – guitar
  • Mikael Jorgensen – keyboards
  • John Stirratt – bass
  • Glenn Kotche – drums
  • Jennifer Kummer – French horn
  • Tom Schick – engineer, mixing
  • Teddy Morgan – engineer
  • Mark Greenberg – engineer assistant, design
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Lawrence Azerrad – design
  • Crystal Myers – design

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Jeff Tweedy.

  1. I Am My Mother
  2. Cruel Country
  3. Hints
  4. Ambulance
  5. The Empty Condor
  6. Tonight’s the Night
  7. All Across the World
  8. Darkness Is Cheap
  9. Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull
  10. Tired of Taking It Out on You
  11. The Universe
  12. Many Worlds
  13. Hearts Hard to Find
  14. Falling Apart (Right Now)
  15. Please Be Wrong
  16. Story to Tell
  17. A Lifetime to Find
  18. Country Song Upside – Down
  19. Mystery Binds
  20. Sad Kind of Way
  21. The Plains

Def Leppard: Diamond Star Halos

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On May 27, 2022, “Bludgeon Riffola” and “Mercury” labels released “Diamond Star Halos” the twelfth Def Leppard studio album. It was recorded 2021 – 2022, and was produced by Ronan McHugh, Joe Elliot, Phil Collen, Rick Savage, Vivian Campbell and Rick Allen.

Personnel:

  • Joe Elliott – lead vocals, guitar, additional engineering
  • Phil Collen – guitar, backing vocals, additional engineering
  • Vivian Campbell – guitar, backing vocals, additional engineering
  • Rick Savage – bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals, additional engineering
  • Rick Allen – drums
  • Alison Krauss – lead vocals
  • Mike Garson – piano
  • Debbi Blackwell-Cook – backing vocals
  • Dave Bassett – backing vocals
  • Eric Gorfain – string arrangements
  • Ross Hogarth – recording engineer
  • Ronan McHugh – drum programmer, editor, engineer, mixing
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Phil Collen, except where noted.

  1. Take What You Want – Joe Elliott, Rick Savage
  2. Kick – Dave Bassett, Phil Collen
  3. Fire It Up – Phil Collen, Sam Hollander
  4. This Guitar – C.J. Vanston, Phil Collen
  5. SOS Emergency – Joe Elliott, Phil Collen
  6. Liquid Dust
  7. U Rok Mi
  8. Goodbye for Good This Time – Joe Elliott
  9. All We Need – Joe Elliott, Phil Collen
  10. Open Your Eyes – Joe Elliott, Phil Collen
  11. Gimme a Kiss – Joe Elliott, Phil Collen
  12. Angels (Can’t Help You Now) – Joe Elliott
  13. Lifeless – Joe Elliott, Phil Collen
  14. Unbreakable – Joe Elliott
  15. From Here to Eternity – Rick Savage

Louis Hayes: Serenade for Horace

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On May 26, 2017, “Blue Note” label released “Serenade for Horace” the 18th Louis Hayes album. It was recorded in 2017, at “System Two” in New York.

Personnel:

  • Louis Hayes – drums
  • David Bryant – piano
  • Abraham Burton – tenor saxophone
  • Josh Evans – trumpet
  • Steve Nelson – vibraphone
  • Dezron Douglas – bass
  • Max Ross – mixing
  • Ian Sefchick – mastering
  • Colby Silon – art direction
  • Hayden Miller – layout, design
  • Janette Beckman – photography

Track listing:

  1. Ecaroh
  2. Señor Blues
  3. Song for My Father
  4. Hastings Street
  5. Strollin’
  6. Juicy Lucy
  7. Silver’s Serenade
  8. Lonely Woman
  9. Summer in Central Park
  10. St. Vitus Dance
  11. Room 608

Saga: Images at Twilight

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In May 1979, “Polydor” label released “Images at Twilight”, the second Saga studio album. It was recorded in 1979, at “Phase One Studios” in Toronto, Canada, and was produced by Paul A. Gross.

Personnel:

  • Michael Sadler – lead vocals, keyboards, Moog synthesizer, bass guitar
  • Ian Crichton – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Gregg Chadd – keyboards, Moog synthesizer, vocoder, backing vocals
  • Jim Crichton – bass guitar, Moog Taurus bass synthesizer
  • Steve Negus – drums, percussion
  • Alan Thorne, Mick Walsh – recording
  • Mark Wright – re-mix
  • Jeff Stobbs, Robin Brouwers – re-mix assistant
  • Zoran Busic – graphic concept, design
  • Tony Roberts – (Young Artists, London) – cover illustration

Track listing:

  1. It’s Time (Chapter Three) – Jim Crichton, Ian Crichton, Greg Chadd, Steve Negus, Michael Sadler
  2. See Them Smile – Jim Crichton
  3. Slow Motion – Michael Sadler, Jim Crichton
  4. You’re Not Alone – Jim Crichton, Ian Crichton, Steve Negus, Peter Rochon
  5. Take It or Leave It – Michael Sadler, Jim Crichton
  6. Images (Chapter One) – Jim Crichton, Michael Sadler
  7. Hot to Cold – Michael Sadler, Peter Rochon
  8. Mouse in a Maze – Jim Crichton, Steve Negus, Peter Rochon

Tina Turner

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On May 24, 2023, Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner died aged 83. She was singer, author, dancer and actress, referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, began her career with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm in 1957. In 1958, under the name Little Ann, she released her first record, “Boxtop”. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the duet single “A Fool in Love”. The duo Ike & Tina Turner became “one of the most formidable live acts in history”. In the 1980s, Turner made a great comeback, and in the decades that followed she sold over 100 million records worldwide, and became one of  the best-selling recording artists of all time. She won twelve “Grammy Awards”, three “Grammy Hall of Fame” awards and a “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award”. Magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked her among the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” and the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”. She was twice inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. In 2005, she was recipient of the “Kennedy Center Honors” and “Women of the Year” award. As leader Tina Turner released nine albums.

Ultravox: Brilliant

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On May 25, 2012, “Chrysalis” label released “Brilliant”, the eleventh and final Ultravox studio album. It was recorded September 2010 – December 2011, at “The Lakehouse” in Montreal, Canada, “Environment” in Bath, England, “Sarm” and “Battery” in London, “Studio City Sound” in California, and was produced by Stephen Lipson, Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure.

Personnel:

  • Midge Ure – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, mixing
  • Billy Currie – piano, synthesizer, violin, mixing
  • Chris Cross – bass, synthesizer, mixing
  • Warren Cann – drums, mixing
  • Stephen Lipson – mixing
  • Tom Weir – drum engineering
  • Mazen Murad – mastering
  • Darren Evans – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Midge Ure, Billy Currie and Chris Cross.

  1. Live
  2. Flow
  3. Brilliant
  4. Change
  5. Rise
  6. Remembering
  7. Hello
  8. One
  9. Fall
  10. Lie
  11. Satellite
  12. Contact

Bruce Hornby and the Range: A Night on the Town

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On May 25, 1990, “RCA” label released “A Night on the Town”, the third and final Bruce Hornsby and the Range studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “Record One” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Don Gehman and Bruce Hornsby.  

Personnel:

  • Bruce Hornsby – lead vocals, grand piano, synthesizer, accordion
  • George Marinelli – guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Joe Puerta – bass, backing vocals
  • John Molo – drums
  • Jerry Garcia – guitar
  • David Mansfield – guitar, violin
  • Béla Fleck – banjo 
  • Jimmie Wood – harmonica
  • Charlie Haden – upright bass
  • Wayne Shorter – saxophone
  • Laura Creamer, Fred White, Bridgette Bryant, Shaun Murphy, Shawn Colvin, David Lasley, Arnold McCuller – backing vocals
  • Ed Thacker – engineer, mixing
  • Eddie King – engineer
  • Steve “Sound” Cormier, Don Gehman – additional engineering
  • Don Bosworth, Robin Laine-Levine, Ted Pattison, John “Chamberlin” Pilatus, Neal Pogue, Chris Winter – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Paul Johnson – keyboard technician
  • Norman Moore, Ria Lewerke – art direction
  • Peter Miller – photography
  • Sharona Sabbag – production coorinator

Track listing:

All tracks by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby, except where noted.

  1. A Night on the Town
  2. Carry the Water – Bruce Hornsby
  3. Fire on the Cross
  4. Barren Ground
  5. Across the River
  6. Stranded on Easy Street
  7. Stander on the Mountain – Bruce Hornsby
  8. Lost Soul – Bruce Hornsby
  9. Another Day – Bruce Hornsby
  10. Special Night
  11. These Arms of Mine

Jean-Lyc Ponty: King Kong: Jean-Lyc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

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On May 25, 1970, “World Pacific” and “Liberty” labels released “King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa”, the sixth Jean-Luc Ponty album. It was recorded in October 1969, at “Whitney Studios” in Glendale, California, and was produced by Richard Bock. 

Personnel:

  • Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin, baritone violectra
  • Frank Zappa – electric guitar, arrangements, conductor
  • George Duke – acoustic and electric piano
  • Buell Neidlinger – double bass 
  • Wilton Felder – Fender Precision electric bass 
  • John Guerin – drums 
  • Arthur Dyer Tripp III – drums 
  • Gene Estes – vibraphone, percussion
  • Ernie Watts – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Ian Underwood – tenor saxophone, orchestra conductor
  • Gene Cipriano – oboe, English horn
  • Arthur Maebe – French horn, tuba 
  • Vincent DeRosa – descant recorder, French horn, descant 
  • Jonathan Meyer – flute
  • Donald Christlieb – bassoon
  • Milton Thomas – viola
  • Harold Bemko – cello
  • Gerald Wilson – conductor
  • Ian Underwood – conductor
  • Dick Kunc – engineer
  • Ron Wolin – art direction, design
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

  1. King Kong
  2. Idiot Bastard Son
  3. Twenty Small Cigars
  4. How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That – Jean-Luc Ponty
  5. Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Orchestra
  6. America Drinks and Goes Home

Stray Cats: 40

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On May 24, 2019, “Surfdog Records” label released “40”, the ninth Stray Cats studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Blackbird Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Peter Collins.

Personnel:

  • Brian Setzer – lead vocals, guitars
  • Lee Rocker – vocals, bass guitar
  • Slim Jim Phantom – vocals, drums
  • Vance Powell – engineer, mixing
  • Mike Fahey – engineer assistant
  • Sean Badum – engineer assistant
  • Pete Lyman – mastering
  • Daniel Bacigalupi – mastering assistant
  • Scrojo Designs – art direction, layout, design
  • Russ Harrington – photography
  • Suzie Kaplan – photography

Track listing:

  1. Cat Fight (Over a Dog Like Me) – Brian Setzer, Mike Himelstein
  2. Rock It Off – Brian Setzer, Mike Himelstein
  3. I’ve Got Love If You Want It
  4. Cry Danger – Brian Setzer, Mike Himelstein, Mike Campbell
  5. I Attract Trouble – Brian Setzer, Mike Himelstein
  6. Three Time’s a Charm – Brian Setzer, Mike Himelstein
  7. That’s Messed Up – Brian Setzer, Mike Himelstein
  8. When Nothing’s Going Right – Lee Rocker as Leon Drucker
  9. Desperado – Brian Setzer
  10. Mean Pickin’ Mama – Brian Setzer
  11. I’ll Be Looking Out for You – Brian Setzer
  12. Devil Train – Brian Setzer

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