Tag Archives: 2010

Weezer: Hurley

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On September 10, 2010, “Epitaph” label released “Hurley”, the eighth Weezer studio album. It was recorded in 2010 and was produced by Rivers Cuomo and Shawn Everett.

Personnel:

  • Rivers Cuomo – vocals, guitar
  • Brian Bell – guitar
  • Scott Shriner – bass
  • Patrick Wilson – drums
  • Blake Mills – keyboards
  • Ryan Adams – guitar, bass
  • Chris Pontius, Jimmy Harry – additional guitar
  • Tony Berg – Hurdy Gurdy
  • Travis Harrison – octa bass
  • Greg Vail- flute
  • Cecilia Huerta, Devin Franco, Gabrielle Hamann-Guennette – cello
  • Dan Wilson – backing vocals
  • April Margera, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey, Johnny Knoxville, Preston Lacy, Ryan Dunn , Steve-O, Wee-Man – gang vocals
  • Allegra Young, Tyler Fitzmaurice – string arrangements, conductor
  • Shawn Everett – recording
  • John Goodmanson, Marc McClusky, Shawn Everett – mixing
  • Dave Collins – mastering
  • Johannes Gamble – art direction

Track listing:

  1. Memories – Rivers Cuomo
  2. Ruling Me – Rivers Cuomo, Dan Wilson
  3. Trainwrecks – Rivers Cuomo, Desmond Child
  4. Unspoken – Rivers Cuomo
  5. Where’s My Sex? – Rivers Cuomo, Greg Wells
  6. Run Away – Rivers Cuomo, Ryan Adams
  7. Hang On – Rivers Cuomo, Rick Nowels
  8. Smart Girls – Rivers Cuomo, Tony Kanal, Jimmy Harry
  9. Brave New World – Rivers Cuomo, Linda Perry
  10. Time Files – Rivers Cuomo, Mac Davis

Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society

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On August 17, 2010, “Heads Up”, label released “Chamber Music Society”, the third Esperanza Spalding studio album. It was recorded in October 2009 and was produced by Esperanza Spalding, and Gil Goldstein.

Personnel:

  • Esperanza Spalding– vocals, bass guitar, double bass
  • Milton Nascimento– guest vocals
  • Leo Genovese– piano, electric piano, melodica
  • Terri Lyne Carrington– drums
  • Quintino Cinalli – percussion
  • Entcho Todorov – violin
  • Lois Martin – viola
  • David Eggar – cello
  • Ricardo Vogt – nylon-stringed guitar
  • Gretchen Parlato– backing vocals
  • Gil Goldstein– co-arranger

Track listing:

All tracks by Esperanza Spalding, except where noted.

  1. Little Fly – lyrics by William Blake, music by Esperanza Spalding
  2. Knowledge of Good and Evil
  3. Really Very Small
  4. Chacarera – Leo Genovese
  5. Wild Is the Wind – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
  6. Apple Blossom
  7. As a Sprout
  8. What a Friend
  9. Winter Sun
  10. Inútil Paisagem – lyrics byAloísio de Oliveira, music by Antonio Carlos Jobim
  11. Short and Sweet
  12. Midnight Sun – lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke

Richie Hayward

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On August 12, 2010, Richard “Richie” Hayward died aged 64. He was a musician (drums), best known as the drummer of Little Feat. Hayward recorded and performed with many artists including Paul Rodgers, The Doobie Brothers, Bob Dylan, Peter Frampton, Buddy Guy, Arlo Guthrie, Al Kooper, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger, Carly Simon, Nancy Sinatra, Stephen Stills, Tom Waits, John Cale, Warren Zevon, Warren HaynesJoan Armatrading, Delaney Bramlett, Kim Carnes, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, James Cotton,  Jonny Lang, Barbra Streisand, Eric Lynn, Nils Lofgren, Taj Mahal, Coco Montoya, Robert Palmer, Van Dyke Parks, Robert Plant, Helen Watson, and Jimmy Herring.

Squeeze: Spot the Difference

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On August 3, 2010, “XOXO Records” label released “Spot the Difference”, the 14th Squeeze album. It was recorded in 2010 and was produced by Andrew J. Jones and Glenn Tilbrook.

Personnel:

  • Chris Difford– vocals, guitar
  • Glenn Tilbrook– vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • John Bentley– vocals, bass
  • Simon Hanson– drums
  • Stephen Large– keyboards
  • Paul Carrack– vocals, keyboards
  • Andrew J. Jones – synthesizer, percussion
  • Bob Litten, Paul Pott, Ray Tabor – horns
  • Phil Veacock – saxophone
  • Alexandra Baybutt, Bryan Chambers, Derek Green, Suzanne Hunt, Jean-Marie Lincoln, Siobhan Parr, Louis Tilbrook – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.

  1. Another Nail in My Heart
  2. Black Coffee in Bed
  3. Cool for Cats
  4. Goodbye Girl
  5. Hourglass
  6. Is That Love
  7. Labelled with Love
  8. Loving You Tonight
  9. Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)
  10. Slap and Tickle
  11. Some Fantastic Place
  12. Take Me I’m Yours
  13. Tempted
  14. Up the Junction

 

Kristin Hersh: Crooked

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On July 19, 2010, “Throwing Music” label released “Crooked”, the eight Kristin Hersh studio album. It was recorded in 2010 and was produced by Kristin Hersh.

Personnel:

  • Kristin Hersh- all vocals and instruments
  • Steve Rizzo – recording, mixing
  • Joe Gastwirt – mastering
  • Jesse von Doom – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Kristin Hersh.

  1. Mississippi Kite
  2. Moan
  3. Sand
  4. Glass
  5. Fortune
  6. Coals
  7. Crooked
  8. Krait
  9. Flooding
  10. Rubidoux

Fiona Adams

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On July 10, 2010, Fiona Adams died aged 84. She was a photographer, one of The Beatles most used photographers, author of the band’s memorable shot jumping off a Brick Wall on Euston Road in London, used on the front cover of the “Twist and Shout” EP.  Adams is also known by the photographs of other 60’s rock icons such as Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.

I Am Kloot: Sky at Night

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On July 5, 2010, “Shepherd Moon” label released “Sky at Night”, the fifth I Am Kloot studio album. It was recorded in 2010 and was produced by Guy Garvey and Craig Potter. The album received the “German Record Critics’ Award” (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik) in the “Pop and Rock” category.

Personnel:

  • John Harold Arnold Bramwell – vocals, guitar
  • Andy Hargreaves – drums
  • Peter Jobson – bass
  • Prabjote Osahn – violin
  • Stella Page – viola
  • Margit van der Zwan – cello
  • Marie Leenhardt – harp
  • Tony Gilfellon – guitar
  • Bob Marsh – trumpet
  • Peter McPhail – saxophone, flute
  • Colin McLeod – piano
  • Norman McLeod – pedal steel guitar
  • Guy Garvey– string arrangements
  • Colin McLeod – additional production, engineer
  • Seadna McPhail – additional engineering
  • Craig Potter – mixing
  • Tim Young – mastering
  • Gerald Jenkins – band photography
  • Paul Brownless – design

Track listing:

All tracks by John Bramwell.

  1. Northern Skies
  2. To the Brink
  3. Fingerprints
  4. Lately
  5. I Still Do
  6. The Moon is a Blind Eye
  7. Proof
  8. It’s Just the Night
  9. Radiation
  10. Same Shoes

Jerry Carrigan

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On June 22, 2019, Jerry Kirby Carrigan died aged 75. He was musician (drums) and record producer. He first achieved widespread recognition as a member of the original Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and later as a session musician in Nashville, regarded as one of the creators of the Nashville sound known as “Countrypolitan”. He has recorded with Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Charley Pride, Paul Anka, John Denver, Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm, Dolly Parton, Leon Russell, Ronnie Hawkins, George Jones, Henry Mancini, Al Hirt, Johnny Mathis, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 2009 Carrigan was inducted into the “Nashville Cats”, by the “Country Music Hall of Fame”; in 2010 he was inducted into the “Alabama Music Hall of Fame”, and in 2019 Carrigan was inducted into the “Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum”.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Same

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On June 21, 2011, “Fat Possum” label released the self – titled, debut Unknown Mortal Orchestra album. It was recorded in 2010. The album won the 2012 “Taite Music Prize”.

Personnel:

  • Ruban Nielson– vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Ruban Nielson.

  1. Ffunny Ffriends
  2. Bicycle
  3. Thought Ballune
  4. Jello and Juggernauts
  5. How Can You Luv Me
  6. Nerve Damage
  7. Little Blu House
  8. Strangers are Strange
  9. Boy Witch