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Rosanne Cash: 10 Song Demo

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On April 2, 1996, “Capitol” label released “10 Song Demo”, the ninth Rosanne Cash album. It was recorded in 1995, and was produced by Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal.

Personnel:

  • Rosanne Cash – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • Larry Campbell – acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals
  • John Leventhal – acoustic and electric guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion
  • Lincoln Schleifer – bass, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Rosanne Cash, except where noted.

  1. Price of Temptation
  2. If I Were a Man
  3. The Summer I Read Collette
  4. Western Wall
  5. Bells & Roses
  6. List of Burdens
  7. Child of Steel (live) 
  8. Just Don’t Talk About It – Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal
  9. I Want to Know
  10. Take My Body
  11. Mid-Air (live)

Brainiac: Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

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On March 26, 1996, “Touch & Go” label released “Hissing Prigs in Static Couture”, the third and final Brainiac album. It was recorded in 1995, at “Water Music” in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was produced by Eli Janney and Steve Albini.

Personnel:

  • Tim Taylor – vocals, keyboards
  • John Schmersal – guitars
  • Juan Monasterio – bass
  • Tyler Trent – drums
  • Eli Janney – recording, engineer
  • Steve Albini – recording
  • Jeff Gattens – recording
  • Mike Rippe – recording assistant

Track listing:

  1. Indian Poker (Part 3)
  2. Pussyfootin
  3. Vincent Come on Down
  4. This Little Piggy
  5. Strung
  6. Hot Seat Can’t Sit Down
  7. The Vulgar Trade
  8. Beekeeper’s Maxim
  9. Kiss Me, U Jacked Up Jerk
  10. 70 Kg Man
  11. Indian Poker (Part 2)
  12. Nothing Ever Changes
  13. I Am a Cracked Machine

Ben Folds Five: Whatever And Ever Amen

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On March 18, 1997, “550” label released “Whatever and Ever Amen”, the second Ben Folds Five studio album. It was recorded September – October 1996, at “Chapel Hill” in North Carolina, and was produced by Caleb Southern and Ben Folds.

 Personnel:

  • Ben Folds – lead vocals, piano, electric piano, melodica
  • Robert Sledge – bass guitar, double bass, backing vocals
  • Darren Jessee – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Caleb Southern – Hammond organ
  • Norwood Cheek – synthesizer space sound
  • Frank London – trumpet
  • Matt Darriau – clarinet
  • Alicia Svigals – violin
  • John Catchings – cello
  • John Mark Painter – string arrangements
  • Caleb Southern – engineer
  • Andy Wallace – mixing
  • Steve Sisco – mixing assistant
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Chris Stamey – Pro-Tools
  • Leigh Smiler – design
  • The Klezmatics – special contributor

Track listing:

All tracks by Ben Folds, except where noted.

  1. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
  2. Fair
  3. Brick – Ben Folds, Darren Jesse
  4. Song for the Dumped – Ben Folds, Darren Jesse
  5. Selfless, Cold, and Composed
  6. Kate – Ben Folds, Darren Jesse, Anna Goodman
  7. Smoke – Ben Folds, Anna Goodman
  8. Cigarette
  9. Steven’s Last Night in Town
  10. Battle of Who Could Care Less
  11. Missing the War
  12. Evaporated

Rachel’s: Music For Egon Schiele

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On February 20, 1996, “Quarterstick” label released “Music for Egon Schiele”, the second Rachel’s album. It was recorded in July 1995. The album was composed as score to a theatrical production, “Egon Schiele”, about the life of the painter Egon Schiele

Personnel:

  • Rachel Grimes – piano, mixing, design, photography
  • Christian Frederickson – viola
  • Wendy Doyle – cello
  • Bob Weston – engineer, mixing
  • Jason Noble – mixing, design, photography
  • John Loder – mastering
  • Egon Schiele – artwork
  • Aaron Frisbee, Chip Dumstorf – Graphic Technologies
  • Gregory King – booklet printing

Track listing:

 All tracks by Rachel Grimes

  1. Family Portrait
  2. Egon & Gertie
  3. First Self-Portrait Series
  4. Mime Van Osen
  5. Second Self-Portrait Series
  6. Wally, Egon & Models in the Studio
  7. Promenade
  8. Third Self-Portrait Series
  9. Egon, Edith & Wally Meet
  10. Egon & Wally Embrace and Say Farewell
  11. Egon & Edith
  12. Second Family Portrait

The Bluetones: Expecting To Fly

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On February 12, 1996, “Superior Quality” label released “Expecting to Fly”, the debut Bluetones (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1995, in Ridge Farm, England, and was produced by Hugh Jones. The album was certified Platinum by “BPI” in England.

Personnel:

  • Mark Morriss – vocals, artwork concept
  • Adam Devlin – guitar, 12 string guitar, artwork concept
  • Scott Morriss – bass, backing vocals, artwork concept
  • Eds Chesters – drums, percussion, artwork concept
  • Caroline LaVelle – cello
  • Dan Crompton – blues harp
  • Mac McEldon – clavinet
  • Hugh Jones – mixing
  • Helen Woodward – mixing
  • Geoff Pesche – mastering
  • Superstock – front cover photography
  • Marc Newman – front cover photography
  • Roger Sargent – band photography
  • Scott Morriss – additional photography
  • Trevor Ray Hart – additional photography

Track listing:

All tracks written by Mark Morriss, Eds Chesters, Adam Devlin and Scott Morriss, except where noted.

  1. Talking to Clarry
  2. Bluetonic – Mark Morriss, Eds Chesters, Adam Devlin, Scott Morriss, Adrian Mitchell
  3. Cut Some Rug
  4. Things Change
  5. The Fountainhead
  6. Can’t Be Trusted
  7. Slight Return
  8. Putting Out Fires
  9. Vampire
  10. A Parting Gesture
  11. Time & Again

Bowery Electric: Beat

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On November 12, 1996, “Kranky” label released “Beat”, the second Bowery Electric studio album. It was recorded in June 1996, at “Studio 45” in Hartford, Connecticut, and was produced by Rich Costey, Lawrence Chandler, Martha Schwendener and Wayne Magruder.

Personnel:

  • Lawrence Chandler – vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming
  • Martha Schwendener – vocals, bass, keyboards
  • Wayne Magruder – drums
  • Catherine Opie – photography (“Untitled No 27” from her Freeway Series)

Track listing:

  1. Beat
  2. Empty Words
  3. Without Stopping
  4. Under the Sun
  5. Fear of Flying
  6. Looped
  7. Black Light
  8. Inside Out
  9. Coming Down
  10. Low Density
  11. Postscript

Swans: Soundtracks For The Blind

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On October 29, 1996, “Young God” and “Atavistic” labels released “Soundtracks for the Blind”, the tenth Swans studio album. It was recorded 1981 – 1996, at “Coast Recorders” in San Francisco, “B.C. Studios” in Brooklyn, New York, “Plastikville” in New York City, “Griffin Mastering” in Atlanta, Georgia, and was produced by Michael Gira and Jarboe.

Personnel:

  • Michael Gira – vocals, guitar, samples, sounds, loops
  • Jarboe – vocals, keyboards, sounds, loops
  • Joe Goldring – electric guitar, bass guitar
  • Vudi – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Larry Mullins – drums, percussion, vibraphone
  • Cris Force – viola
  • Bill Rieflin
  • Christoph Hahn
  • Clinton Steele
  • Larry Lame
  • Norman Westberg
  • Algis Kizys
  • Billy Anderson – recording, mixing
  • Martin Bisi – recording, mixing  
  • Larry Lame – recording, mixing
  • Chris Griffin – recording, mixing engineer
  • Andy Ray – live engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Gira, except where noted.

Siver

  1. Red Velvet Corridor
  2. I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull
  3. Helpless Child
  4. Live Through Me
  5. Yum-Yab Killers – Jarboe
  6. The Beautiful Days
  7. Volcano – Jarboe
  8. Mellothumb
  9. All Lined Up
  10. Surrogate 2 – Michael Gira, Jarboe
  11. How They Suffer
  12. Animus

Copper

  1. Red Velvet Wound – Jarboe
  2. The Sound
  3. Her Mouth Is Filled with Honey – Michael Gira, Jarboe
  4. Blood Section
  5. Hypogirl
  6. Minus Something
  7. Empathy
  8. I Love You This Much
  9. YRP
  10. Fan’s Lament
  11. Secret Friends – Michael Gira, Jarboe
  12. The Final Sacrifice
  13. YRP 2
  14. Surrogate Drone

Iris DeMent: The Way I Should

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On October 8, 1996, “Warner Bros” label released “The Way I Should”, the third Iris DeMent studio album. It was recorded in 1996, at “Scruggs Sound” in Berry Hill, Tennessee, and was produced by Randy Scruggs.

Personnel:

  • Iris DeMent – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Mark Knopfler – National guitar
  • Lonnie Mack – electric guitar
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar solo
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar
  • John Jennings – guitar, EBow, 6-string bass
  • Randy Scruggs – guitar
  • Stuart Smith – guitar, slide guitar
  • Earl Scruggs – banjo
  • Tom Roady – tambourine
  • Chuck Leavell – organ, piano, accordion
  • Delbert McClinton – vocals, harmonica
  • Dave Pomeroy – bass
  • Harry Stinson – drums
  • Tammy Rogers – fiddle, mandolin, violin, viola, cello
  • Bekka Bramlett – backing vocals
  • Billy Burnette – backomg vocals
  • Melodie Crittenden – backing vocals
  • Russ Taff – backing vocals
  • Chuck Ainlay – engineer, mixing
  • Chris Rua, Graham Lewis – engineer assistant
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • Stephen Walker, Terry Robertson – art direction, design
  • Debbie Spinelli, Rocky Schenck – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Iris DeMent, except where noted.

  1. When My Mornin’ Comes Around
  2. There’s a Wall in Washington
  3. Wasteland of the Free
  4. I’ll Take You My Sorrow Straight – Iris DeMent, Elmer McCall
  5. This Kind of Happy – Iris DeMent, Merle Haggard
  6. The Way I Should
  7. Letter to Mom
  8. Keep Me God
  9. Quality Time
  10. Walkin’ Home
  11. Trouble – Iris DeMnet, Elmer McCall

Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind

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On September 30, 1997, “Columbia” label released “Time Out of Mind”, the thirtieth Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded 1996 – 1887, at “Criteria”, Miami, and was produced by Daniel Lanois.

Personnel:

  • Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
  • Daniel Lanois – guitar, mando-guitar, Firebird, Martin 0018, Gretsch gold top, rhythm and lead guitar, photography
  • Bucky Baxter – acoustic and pedal steel guitar
  • Cindy Cashdollar – slide guitar 
  • Duke Robillard – guitar, electric Gibson L-5 
  • Robert Britt – Martin acoustic, Fender Stratocaster 
  • Augie Meyers – Vox organ combo, Hammond B3 organ, accordion
  • Jim Dickinson – keyboards, Wurlitzer electric piano, pump organ
  • Tony Garnier – bass guitar, upright bass
  • Brian Blade – drums
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • David Kemper – drums
  • Tony Mangurian – percussion
  • Winston Watson – drums
  • Mark Howard – engineer
  • Chris Carrol – engineer assistant
  • Joe Gastwirt – mastering
  • Geoff Gans – art direction
  • Susie Q. – photography
  • Mark Seliger – photography

Trak listing:

All tracks by Bob Dylan.

  1. Love Sick
  2. Dirt Road Blues
  3. Standing in the Doorway
  4. Million Miles
  5. Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
  6. Til I Fell in Love with You
  7. Not Dark Yet
  8. Cold Irons Bound
  9. Make You Feel My Love
  10. Can’t Wait
  11. Highlands

Eels: Beautiful Freak

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On August 13, 1996, “DreamWorks” label released “Beautiful Freak” the debut Eels studio album. It was recorded June 1993 – December 1996, at “Conway Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Jon Brion, E, Mark Goldenberg and Michael Simpson.

Personnel:

  • Butch – drums, backing vocals, engineer
  • E – vocals, guitar, Wurlitzer electric piano, engineer
  • Tommy Walter – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Jon Brion – guitar, trombone, chamberlin
  • Mark Goldenberg – guitar, keyboards, engineer
  • Jim Jacobsen – keyboards, loops, engineer
  • Jon Brion – engineer
  • Amir Derakh – engineer
  • Matt Thorne – engineer
  • Michael Simpson – mixing
  • Billy Kinsley – mixing
  • Rob Seifert – mixing
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Ann Giordano – photography
  • Francesca Restrepo – art direction, sleeve design

Track listing:

All tracks by E, except where noted.

  1. Novocaine for the Soul – E, Mark Goldenberg
  2. Susan’s House – E, Jim Jacobsen, Jim Weatherly
  3. Rags to Rags
  4. Beautiful Freak
  5. Not Ready Yet – Jon Brion, E
  6. My Beloved Monster
  7. Flower – E, Jim Jacobsen
  8. Guest List
  9. Mental
  10. Spunky
  11. Your Lucky Day in Hell – E, Goldenberg
  12. Manchild – E, Jill Sobule