On January 10, 2023, Geoffrey Arnold Beck aka Jeff Beck died aged 78. He was musician (guitar), in all lists of the 100 Greatest guitarists of all time, he was ranked in the top five. Beck’s innovative guitar sound spanned various styles ranging from blues rock, jazz fusion and guitar rock and influenced generations of young guitarists. He received “Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performances” six times, and “Best pop Instrumental Performance” once. In 1992, as member of The Yardbirds he was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, and as solo artists in 2009. In 2014 he received the “British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award” for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Beck was member of the Yardbirds, founder and leader of Jeff Beck Group, and member of Beck, Bogert and Appice. As leader he released fourteen albums.
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Christine McVie
On November 30, 2022, Christine Anne McVie née Perfect, died aged 79. She was musician (keyboards), singer and songwriter, member of the bands Sounds of Blue and Chicken Shack, but was best known as vocalist and keyboardist of Fleetwood Mac. In 1998, as a member of Fleetwood Mac, McVie was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” and received the “Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music”.In 2006, McVie received a “Gold Badge of Merit Award from BASCA”, in 2014, she received the “Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement” from the “British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors” and was honored with the “Trailblazer Award at the UK Americana Awards” in 2021. McVie also won two “Grammy Awards”. As leader, McVie released four albums (one with Lindsey Buckingham).
Walk the Moon: Talking Is Hard
On December 2, 2014, “RCA” label released “Talking Is Hard”, the third Walk the Moon studio album. It was recorded in 2014, at “Rancho Pagzilla” in Hollywood, and was produced by Tim Pagnotta.
Personnel:
- Nick Petricca – vocals, keyboards, percussion, programming
- Eli Maiman – vocals, guitar, programming
- Kevin Ray – vocals, bass
- Sean Waugaman – vocals, percussion
- Jarett Holmes – programming, recording, digital editing
- Tim Pagnotta – recording
- Kuk Harrell – vocal recording
- Marcos Tovar – vocal recording
- Andrew “Muffman” Luftman – recording assistant
- Blake Mares – assistant engineer
- Robert Cohen – assistant engineer
- Brian Phillips – digital editing
- Allen Casillas – digital editing
- Ryan Gillmor – digital editing
- Mauro Rubbi – drum technician
- Neal Avron – mixing
- Scott Skrzynski – mixing assistant
- Joe LaPorta – mastering
- Ben Berger – vocal production, co-production
- Ryan McMahon – vocal production, co-production
Track listing:
- Different Colors – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- Sidekick – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- Shut Up and Dance – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman, Ben Berger, Ryan McMahon
- Up 2 U – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman, Ben Berger, Ryan McMahon
- Avalanche – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman, Tim Pagnotta
- Portugal – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- Down in the Dumps – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- Work This Body – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- Spend Your $$$ – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- We Are the Kids – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman, Ryan McMahon
- Come Under the Covers – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman
- Aquaman – Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, Eli Maiman, Matt Radosevich
Letecki Pekinezeri: Dog Show
On November 26, 2014, “SJF Records” label released “Dog Show”, the debut Letecki Pekinezeri album. It was recorded in October, 2013, at “Imperial Hall, MOB” in Skopje, Macedonia, and was produced by Alen Hadži Stefanov, Bojan Petkov, Ivo Spldatovic, Petar Hristov, Kiril Tufekcievski and Slavco Kocev.
Personnel:
- Bojan Petkov – guitar
- Ivo Soldatovic – clarinet
- Petar Hristov – tenor saxophone
- Kiril Tufekcievski – double bass
- Slavco Kocev – drums
- Alen Hadži Stefanov – recording, mixing, mastering
- Ruki – design
- Oliver Belopeta – executive producer
Track listing:
All tracks by Bojan Petkov, except where noted.
- Shamba Samba
- Rhythm Schulung
- Coda Humoresque
- Essen
- Lady Dracula
- Walzer Walzer Walzer
- Jazz 2012
- Look at Me
- Pembe Pembe – traditional, arranged by Bojan Petkov, Ivo Spldatovic, Petar Hristov, Kiril Tufecievski and Slavco Kocev
- Nah Selo – Ivo Soldatovic
- Snail
Nickelback: No Fixed Address
On November 14, 2014, “Republic” label released “No Fixed Address”, the eighth Nickelback studio album. It was recorded May 2013 – July 2014, and was produced by Chris Baseford, Brian Howes, Jason “JVP” van Poederooyen, Gordon “Gordini” Sran, Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair.
Personnel:
- Chad Kroeger – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar
- Ryan Peake – rhythm and occasional lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
- Mike Kroeger – bass
- Daniel Adair – drums, backing vocals
- Michael Sanders – guitar
- Dan Higgins – saxophone
- Natalie Cassidy – trumpet, waffle
- Steve Holtman – trombone
- Flo Rida – vocals
- Ali Tamposi – backing vocals
- Dave Martone – backing vocals
- Melanie Taylor, Kenna Ramsay – backing vocals
- Jerry Hey – horn arrangement
- Chris Lord-Alge, Randy Staub – mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering
Track listing:
- Million Miles an Hour – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake
- Edge of a Revolution – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger
- What Are You Waiting For – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Oeake, Jacob Kasher, Gordon “Gordini” Sran
- She Keeps Me Up – Chad Kroeger, Jacob Kasher, Josh Ramsay
- Make Me Believe Again – Chad Kroeger, David Hodges
- Satellite – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Josh Ramsey, David Hodges
- Get ‘Em Up – Chad Kroeger
- The Hammer’s Coming Down – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger
- Miss You – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger
- Got Me Runnin’ Round – Chad Kroeger, Jacob Kasher
- Sister Sin – Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake
Albatrosh: Night Owl
On November 7, 2014, “Rune Grammofon” label released “Night Owl”, the fifth Albatrosh album. It was recorded in June 2014, at “Osnabrück” in Germany, and was produced by Eyolf Dale and André Roligheten.
Personnel:
- Eyolf Dale – piano, mixing
- André Roligheten – saxophone, mixing
- Manuel Knigge – recording
- Morgan Nicolaysen – mastering
- Kim Hiorthøy – design
Track listing:
- Duvet Day – André Roligheten
- The Sheriff – Eyolf Dale
- Nut Job – André Roligheten, Eyolf Dale
- Early Bird – André Roligheten
- Wolf Whistle – André Roligheten, Eyolf Dale
- Hula Hoop – André Roligheten
- The Liger – Eyolf Dale
- Night Owl – Eyolf Dale
Mark Lanegan Band: Phantom Radio
On October 21, 2014, “Vagrant” label released “Phantom Radio”, the ninth Mark Lanegan, credited as the Mark Lanegan Band. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Alain Johannes.
Personnel:
- Mark Lanegan – vocals, acoustic guitar
- Alain Johannes – acoustic and electric guitar, verb guitar, Brushverb guitar, E-bow guitar, wah guitar, mandolin, bass, Moog bass, Prophet 5, harmonium, pocket piano, Moog bass, Wurlitzer, saxophones, flutes, filter Moog, Mellotron, Rhodes, kick drums, electronic drums, percussion, Rhodes, backing vocals
- Martyn LeNoble – bass, fretless bass, upright bass
- Jack Irons – drums
- Jeff Fielder – acoustic guitar, Leslie guitar
- Brett Nelson – guitar
- Aldo Struyf – synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, electric guitar, percussion, synthetic horns, sampled horns
- Sietse Van Gorkom – synthesizer, bass, saloon piano, acoustic guitar, strings, clarinet, electronic drums
- Jean-Philippe De Gheest – drums
- Shelley Brien – backing vocals
Track listing:
All tracks by Mark Lanegan.
- Harvest Home
- Judgment Time
- Floor of the Ocean
- The Killing Season
- Seventh Day
- I Am the Wolf
- Torn Red Heart
- Waltzing in Blue
- The Wild People
- Death Trip to Tulsa
- Dry Iced
- No Bells on Sunday
- Sad Lover
- Jonas Pap
- Smokestack Magic
Jamie Cullum: Interlude
On October 6, 2014, “Island” label released “Interlude”, the seventh Jamie Cullum album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Benedic Lamdin.
Personnel:
- Jamie Cullum – vocal, piano, organ, photography
- Gregory Porter – vocal
- Laura Mvula – vocal
- Rob Updegraff – guitar
- Ross Stanley – piano
- Rian Vosloo – bass, arranger
- Tim Giles – drums, arranger
- Tom Richards – saxophone, reeds, arrangements
- Tomas Challenger – tenor saxophone
- Edgar Jones – tenor saxophone, reeds
- Fulvio Sigurta – trumpet
- Mike Lovett – trumpet
- Rory Simmons – trumpet, arranger
- Percy Pursglove – trumpet
- Neil Sidwell, Nichol Thomson, Natalie Wilts, Trevor Mires – trombone
- James Allsopp – clarinet, reeds
- Howard McGill – clarinet
- Aisha Orazbeveva, Emma Smith – violin
- Vince Sipprell – viola
- Lucy Railton – cello
- Amy Stanford, Anna Giddey, Kit Massey, Mary Martin, Natalie Rozario, Paloma Deike, Rachel Steadman, Ruth Elder – strings
- Benedic Lamdin – engineer, mixing
- Alex Bonney – engineer assistant
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Jeremy Lubsey – mastering assistant
- Matk James – artwork, design
- Michael Agel, Andrew Corrigan – photography
Track listing:
- Interlude – Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli, Raymond Leven
- Don’t You Know – Ray Charles
- The Seer’s Tower – Sufjan Stevens
- Walkin’ – Richard Carpenter
- Good Morning Heartache – Dan Fisher, Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham
- Sack O’Woe – Jon Hendricks, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
- Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus
- My One and Only Love – Guy B. Wood, Robert Mellin
- Lovesick Blues – Cliff Friend, Irving Mills
- Losing You – Randy Newman
- Out of This World – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
- Make Someone Happy – Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Jule Styne
Karen O: Crush Songs
On September 5, 2014, “Cult Records” label released “Crush Songs”, the debut Karen O (Karen Lee Orzolek) studio album. It was recorded 2006 – 2010.
Personnel:
- Karen O – vocals, recording, drawings, liner notes
- Imaad Wasif – guitar
- Dean Fertita – backing vocals
- Nick Launay – mixing
- Bernie Grundman – mastering
- Young Kok Kim – painting
- Julian Gross – design
Track listing:
All tracks by Karen O, except where noted.
- Ooo
- Rapt
- Visits
- Beast
- Comes the Night
- NYC Baby
- Other Side
- So Far
- Day Go By
- Body
- King
- Indian Summer – Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger
- Sunset Sun
- Native Korean Rock
- Singalong – Karen O, Jack Lawrence, Dean Fertita
Jimmy Barnes: 30:30 Hindsight
On August 29, 2015, “Liberation Music”, label released “30:30 Hindsight”, the fifteenth Jimmy Barnes studio album. The album contains 17 new recordings and 13 classic Jimmy Barnes tracks spanning his solo career. It was recorded 1984 – 2014, at “Freight Train Studios”, “Revolver Studios”, “Addiction Sound”, “Studio at the Palms” and “Studio Guillaume Tell”, and was produced by David Kalmusky, Jonathan Cain, Kevin Shirley, Steven Van Zandt and Bernard Fanning.
Personnel:
- Jimmy Barnes – lead and backing vocals
- Mahalia Barnes – lead and backing vocals
- Bernard Fanning – vocal, acoustic guitar
- Steve Sheehan – acoustic guitar
- Steven van Zandt – guitar, backing vocals
- Ian Moss – guitar
- Ben Rodgers – guitar
- Chris Cheney – guitar, backing vocals
- Danny Spencer – guitar
- Dave Leslie – guitar
- Davey Lane – guitar
- Franco Raggatt – guitar
- Joe Bonamassa – guitar, slide guitar
- Jon Toogood – guitar
- Keith Urban – vocal, guitar
- Mark Lizotte – guitar
- Neal Schon – guitar
- Phil Knight – guitar
- Stuart Fraser – guitar
- Tom Bukovac – guitar
- Jon Stevens – vocal, steel guitar
- Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar
- Jimmy Mantingly – mandolin
- Jonathan Cain – piano, keyboards
- Lachian Doley – piano, keyboards
- Arian Schierbaum – keyboards
- Howard Duck – Hammond organ
- Ben Rodgers – bass
- Dario Bortolin – bass
- John Dymond – bass
- Karl Kippenberger – bass
- Michael Hegerty – bass
- Michael Menell – bass
- Michael Rhodes – bass
- Scott Owen – bass
- Jackie Barnes – drums, backing vocals
- Andy Strachan – drums
- Anton Fig – drums
- Tom Larkin – drums
- Mick Skelton – drums
- Greg Morrow – drums
- Dave Hibbard – drums
- Charley Drayton – drums
- Lenny Castro – percussion
- Charlie Owen – dobro
- David Woodford – saxophone
- Lee Thornburg – trumpet
- David Campbell – vocal
- Jon Toogood – vocal
- Matk Lizotte – vocal
- Suze Demarchi – vocal
- Tina Arena – vocal
- Troy Cassar Daley – vocal
- Doug Henthorn, Eliza Jane Barnes, Jane Barnes, Elly May Barnes, Gary Pinto, Jade MacRae, Juanita Tippins, Ruby Rogers, Scot Hull – backing vocals
- Jeff Bova – orchestration
- David Nicholas – engineer
- Jared Kvitka – engineer
- Jean Paul Fung – engineer
- Mark Gray – engineer
- Nick Didia – engineer
- Dennis Caribaux – engineer
- James Freeman – engineer
- Nick Kallstrom – engineer
- Pal Thrall – engineer
- Ethan Berrette – engineer
- Sean Astill – engineer
- Zachary Miller – engineer
Track listing:
- Lay Down Your Guns – featuring The Living End
- Time Will Tell – featuring Baby Animals
- Good Times – featuring Keith Urban
- Ride the Night Away – featuring Steven Van Zandt
- Stand Up – featuring Mahalia Barnes and the Soul Mates
- I’d Die to Be with You Tonight – featuring Diesel
- Stone Cold – featuring Tina Arena and Joe Bonamassa
- Working Class Man – featuring Jonathan Cain and Ian Moss
- Going Down Alone – featuring Jonathan Cain, Joe Bonamassa and Meal Schon
- Love and Hate – featuring Shihad
- No Second Prize – featuring The Family Choir
- I’d Rather Be Blind – featuring Jon Stevens
- When Your Love is Gone – featuring Ruby Rodgers and The Tin Lids
- Too Much Ain’t Enough Love – featuring Joe Bonamassa
- I’m Still on Your Side – featuring Bernard Fanning
- Walk On – featuring David Campbell
- The Other Kind – Troy Cassar Daley
1984 – 2010
- No Second Prize
- Daylight
- Working Class Man
- Driving Wheels
- Let’s Make It Last All Night
- Love Is Enough
- When Something Is Wrong with My Baby – featuring John Farnham
- The Weight – featuring The Badloves
- Change of Heart
- Lover Lover
- Out in the Blue
- Red Hot
- Large Pier Hotel
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