Tag Archives: 2009

Sara Watkins: Same

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On April 7, 2009, “Nonesuch” label released the self-titled, debut Sara Watkins album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009, at “Sound Emporium” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Henson Recording Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by John Paul Jones.

Personnel:

  • Sara Watkins – vocals, fiddle, ukulele
  • Sean Watkins – acoustic and electric guitar, harmony vocals
  • Jon Brion – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Gillian Welch – electric guitar, harmony vocals
  • Chris Eldridge – guitar, harmony vocals
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
  • John Paul Jones – bass, mandolin, piano, organ, electric piano, harmony vocals
  • Billy Cardine – dobro
  • Michael Witcher – dobro
  • Ronnie McCoury – mandolin
  • Chris Thile – mandola
  • Benmont Tench – piano
  • Byron House – bass
  • Mark Schatz – bass
  • Sebastian Steinberg – bass
  • David Rawlings – drums, electric guitar, harmony vocals
  • Rayna Gellert – fiddle
  • Pete Thomas – drums
  • Luke Bulla – harmony vocals
  • Claire Lynch – harmony vocals
  • Jenny Anne Mannan – harmony vocals
  • Tim O’Brien – harmony vocals
  • Aoife O’Donovan – harmony vocals
  • Dave Sinko – recording, mixing
  • Eric Conn – mastering
  • Wendy Stamberger – design
  • Jeremy Cowart – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Sara Watkins, except where noted.

  1. All This Time
  2. Long Hot Summer Days – John Hartfoed
  3. My Friend
  4. Freiderick
  5. Same Mistakes – Jon Brion
  6. Any Old Time – Jimmie Rodgers
  7. Pony – Tom Waits
  8. Lord Won’t You Help Me – Norman Blake
  9. Jefferson
  10. Give Me Jesus
  11. Bygones
  12. Too Much – David Garza
  13. Will We Go
  14. Where Will You Be

Bob Mould: Life And Times

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On April 7, 2009, “ANTI“ label released “Life and Times”, the ninth Bob Mould album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Bob Mould.

Personnel:

  • Bob Mould – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, programming, mixing, layout
  • Jon Wurster – drums
  • Frank Marchand – drums recording
  • Jim Wilson – mastering
  • Tom D. Kline – layout
  • Micheal Brodbeck – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob Mould.

  1. Life and Times
  2. The Breach
  3. City Lights (Days Go By)
  4. MM 17
  5. Argos
  6. Bad Blood Better
  7. Wasted World
  8. Spiraling Down
  9. I’m Sorry, Baby, But You Can’t Stand in My Light Anymore
  10. Lifetime

Black Francis: NonStopErotik

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On March 30, 2010, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “NonStopErotik”, the sixteenth Black Francis album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Ocean Way Studios” in Los Angeles, “RAK Studios” in London, “Studios G.” in Brooklyn, and was produced by Eric Drew Feldman and Black Francis.

Personnel:

  • Black Francis – vocals, guitar
  • Dave Phillips – guitar
  • Todd O’Keefe – vocals, guitar, bass
  • Eric Drew Feldman – keyboards, bass
  • Tony Maimone – bass, engineer assistant
  • David Henderson – drums
  • Todd Demma – drums
  • Jack Kidney – percussion
  • Wesley Siedman – engineer
  • Howard ‘Head’ Bullivant – engineer
  • Jonathan Sterling – engineer assistant
  • Robbie Nelson – engineer assistant
  • Helen Atkinson – engineer assistant
  • John Dent – mastering
  • Mark Lemhouse – design
  • Aaron Lucy – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Black Francis, except where noted.

  1. Lake of Sin
  2. O My Tidy Sum
  3. Rabbits
  4. Wheels – Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons
  5. Dead Man’s Curve
  6. Corrina
  7. Six Legged Man
  8. Wild Son
  9. When I Go Down on You
  10. Nonstoperotik
  11. Cinema Star

The Strokes: Angles

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On March 18, 2011, “RCA” label released “Angles”, the fourth Strokes (The) album. It was recorded July 2009 – December 2010, at “Electric Lady”, “Avatar” in New York City, “One Way” in Upstate New York, and was produced by Joe Chiccarelli, Gus Oberg, Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.

Personnel:

  • Julian Casablancas – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
  • Nick Valensi – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Albert Hammond, Jr. – rhythm guitar, keyboards
  • Nikolai Fraiture – bass guitar, keyboards
  • Fabrizio Moretti – drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Gus Oberg – recording, engineer
  • Joe Chiccarelli – recording
  • Justin Gerrish – engineer assistant
  • Noah Georgeson – mixing
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Guy Pouppez – cover painting
  • Lizzie Nanut – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.

  1. Machu Picchu
  2.  Under Cover of Darkness
  3. Two Kind of Happiness
  4. You’re So Right
  5. Taken for a Fool
  6. Games
  7. Call Me Back
  8. Gratisfaction
  9. Metabolism
  10. Life Is Simple in the Moonlight

Lemon Demon: Spirit Phone

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On February 20, 2016, Lemon Demon (Neil Cicierega) self-released “Spirit Phone” its seventh album. It was recorded 2009 – 2016, and was produced by Neil Cicierega.

Personnel:

  • Neil Cicierega – vocals, instruments, programming, recording
  • Dave Kitsberg – electric guitar
  • Ming Doyle – cover artwork, picture disc artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Cicierega, except where noted.

  1. Lifetime Achievement Award
  2. Touch-Tone Telephone
  3. Cabinet Man
  4. No Eyed Girl
  5. When He Died
  6. Sweet Bod
  7. Eighth Wonder
  8. Ancient Aliens
  9. Soft Fuzzy Man
  10. As Your Father, I Expressly Forbid It
  11. I Earn My Life
  12. Reaganomics
  13. Man-Made Object
  14. Spiral of Ants

M. Ward: Hold Time

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On February 17, 2009, “Merge” and “4AD” labels released “Hold Time”, the sixth M. Ward studio album. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by M. Ward.

Personnel:

  • M. Ward – voice, guitar, keyboards, bass, string arrangements
  • Jason Lytle – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Mike Coykendall – bass, percussion
  • Adam Selzer, Jordan Hudson, Rachel Blumberg, Than Luu – percussion
  • Peter Broderick, Tom Hagerman – strings, violins
  • Bill Ritchie – upright bass
  • Mike Mogis – percussion, bells, mandolin, keyboards
  • Elin Palmer – violin
  • Allison Stewart – viola
  • Dave Campbell – cello
  • Zooey Deschanel – vocals
  • Lucinda Williams – vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by M. Ward, except where noted.

  1. For Beginners
  2. Never Had Nobody Like You
  3. Jailbird
  4. Hold Time
  5. Rave On – Norman Petty, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West
  6. To Save Me
  7. One Hundred Million Years
  8. Stars of Leo
  9. Fisher of Men
  10. Oh, Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
  11. Epistemology
  12. Blake’s View
  13. Shangri-La
  14. Outro (aka: I’m a Fool to Want You) – Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf

Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

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On February 1, 2020, “Concord Music Group” label released “Yesterday You Said Tomorrow”, the sixth Christian Scott album. It was recorded in April 2009, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Chris Dunn and Christian Scott.

Personnel:

  • Christian Scott – trumpet
  • Milton Fletcher, Jr. – piano
  • Matthew Stevens – guitar
  • Kristopher Keith Funn – bass
  • Jamire Williams – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Maureen Sickler – engineer assistant
  • Alan Cole – art direction
  • Ivory Daniel – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Christian Scott, except where noted.

  1. K.K.P.D.
  2. The Eraser – Thom Yorke
  3. After All – Matthew Stevens
  4. Isadora
  5. Angola, LA & The 13th Amendment
  6. The Last Broken Heart (Prop 8)
  7. Jenacide (The Inevitable Rise and Fall of the Bloodless Revolution)
  8. The American’t
  9. An Unending Repentance
  10. The Roe Effect (Refrain in F# Minor) – Christian Scott, Matthew Stevens

Carla Bley: Carla’s Christmas Carols

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On November 3, 2009, “Watt/ECM” label released “Carla’s Christmas Carols”, the 26th Carla Bley album. It was recorded in December 2008, at “La Buissonne Studios”, Avignon, France, and was produced by Steve Swallow.

Personnel:

  • Carla Bley – piano, celeste
  • Steve Swallow – bass guitar, chimes
  • Tobias Weidinger – trumpet, flugelhorn, glockenspiel
  • Axel Schlosser – trumpet, flugelhorn, chimes
  • Christine Chapman – horn
  • Adrian Mears – trombone
  • Ed Partyka – bass trombone, tuba
  • Nikolaus Lowe – engineer
  • Nicolas Baillard – engineer
  • Gerard de Garo – engineer
  • Ricarda Molder – editing, mastering
  • Watt Works – design
  • Bill Strode – photography

Track listing:

  1. Tannenbaum – traditional
  2. Away in a Manger – James R. Murray
  3. The Christmas Song – Mel Torme, Bob Wells
  4. Ring Christmas Bells – Mykola Leontovych
  5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Part 1 – traditional
  6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Part 2 – traditional
  7. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Richard Storrs Willis, Edmund Sears
  8. Hell’s Bells – Carla Bley
  9. Jesus Maria – Carla Bley
  10. Jingle Bells – James Pierpont
  11. O Holy Night – Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau
  12. Joy to the World – Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts

Simple Minds: Big Music

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On October 31, 2014, “Sony Music” label released “Big Music”, the sixteenth Simple Minds studio album. It was recorded May 2009 – August 2014, in London, Bath, Ireland, and was produced by Gavin Goldberg, Steve Osborne, Owen Parker, Andy Wright, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Mel Gaynor, Andy Gillespie and Ged Grimes.

Personnel:

  • Jim Kerr – vocals
  • Charlie Burchill – guitar, keyboard, programming
  • Andy Gillespie – keyboard, backing vocals
  • Ged Grimes – bass guitar
  • Mel Gaynor – drums
  • Sarah Brown – backing vocals
  • Clinton Outten – backing vocals
  • Gavin Goldberg – acoustic guitar, keyboard, programming, mixing
  • Andy Wright – keyboards, programming
  • Owen Parker – additional guitar, backing vocals, additional programming
  • Steve Osborne – programming
  • Iain Cook – additional programming
  • Paul Statham – additional programming
  • Tom Dalgety – additional engineering
  • John Henry – additional engineering
  • Lewis Chapman – mixing assistant
  • JP Chalbos – mastering
  • Peacock – art direction, design
  • Daniel Reed – cover digital illustration
  • Paul Cox – photography
  • Martin Smith – photography

Track listing:

  1. Blindfolded – Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  2. Midnight Walking – Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Andy Gillespie
  3. Honest Town – Iain Cook, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  4. Big Music – Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Andy Gillespie
  5. Human – Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  6. Blood Diamonds – Iain Cook, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  7. Let the Day Begin – Michael Been
  8. Concrete and Cherry Blossom – Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  9. Imagination – Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  10. Kill or Cure – Paul Statham, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  11. Broken Glass Park – Owen Parker, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
  12. Spirited Away – Owen Parker, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill

Rammstein: Liebe ist für alle da

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On October 16, 2009, „Universal Music“ label released „Liebe ist für alle da“, the sixth Rammstein studio album. It was recorded 2007 – 2009, at “Sonoma Mountain Recording Estate” in San Rafael, “Henson” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jacob Hellner, Tin Lindermann, Richard Kruspe, Oliver Riedel, Paul Landers, Christian Lorenz and Cristoph Schneider.

Personnel:

  • Till Lindemann – lead vocals
  • Richard Kruspe – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Paul Landers – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Christian Lorenz – keyboards
  • Oliver Riedel – bass guitar
  • Christoph Schneider – drums

Track listing:

All tracks written by Richard Kruspe, Paul Landers, Till Lindemann, Christian Lorenz, Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider.

  1. Rammlied
  2. Ich tu dir weh
  3. Waidmanns Heil
  4. Haifisch
  5. B********”
  6. Frühling in Paris
  7. Wiener Blut
  8. Pussy
  9. Liebe ist für alle da
  10. Mehr
  11. Roter Sand