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The Jayhawks: Sound Of Lies

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On April 22, 1997, “American” label released “Sound of Lies”, the fifth Jayhawks (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1996, and was produced by Brian Paulson, Gary Louris. Marc Perlman, Karen Grotberg, Tim O’ Reagan, Kraig Johnson and Jessy Greene.

Personnel:

  • Gary Louris – vocals, guitar
  • Kraig Johnson – guitar, E-Bow
  • Karen Grotberg – vocals, organ, piano, keyboards, Wurlitzer
  • Jessy Greene – violin, viola, cello
  • Marc Perlman – vocals, bass, guitar
  • Tim O’ Reagan – vocals, drums
  • Matthew Sweet – vocals
  • Pauli Ryan – percussion
  • Mark Haines – engineer
  • Victor Janacua – engineer
  • Brian Jenkins – engineer
  • Brian Paulson – mixing
  • George Drakoulias – mixing
  • Jim Scott – mixing
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Allen Sanderson – engineer assistant, mixing assistant
  • Mike Scotella – engineer assistant, mixing assistant
  • Joe Zook – engineer assistant
  • Dan Corrigan – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Gary Louris, except where noted.

  1. The Man Who Loved Life
  2. Think About It – Gary Louris, Marc Perlman
  3. Trouble – Marc Perlman, Gary Louris
  4. It’s Up to You
  5. Stick in the Mud
  6. Big Star
  7. Poor Little Fish
  8. Sixteen Down
  9. Haywire
  10. Dying on the Vine – Gary Louris, Marc Perlman
  11. Bottomless Cup – Tim O’ Reagan
  12. Sound of Lies

Son Volt: Straigtaways

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On April 22, 1997, “Warner Bros” label released “Straightaways”, the second Son Volt studio album. It was recorded in 1996 at “Echo Park” in Bloomington, Indiana, “Pachyderm Studios” in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, and was produced by Brian Paulson, Jay Farrar, Dave Boquist, Eric Heywood, Pauli Ryan, Jim Boquist and Mike Heidorn.

Personnel:

  • Jay Farrar – lead vocals, guitars, organ, harmonica
  • Dave Boquist – guitars, fiddle, banjo, lap steel guitar
  • Eric Heywood – pedal steel guitar, mandolin
  • Pauli Ryan – tambourine
  • Jim Boquist – bass, backing vocals
  • Mike Heidorn – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Jay Farrar, except where noted.

  1. Caryatid Easy
  2. Back into Your World
  3. Picking Up the Signal
  4. Left a Slide
  5. Creosote
  6. Cemetery Savior
  7. Last Minute Shakedown
  8. Been Set Free – Jay Farrar, Monica Farrar
  9. No More Parades
  10. Way Down Watson

Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hot

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On June 4, 1996, “Mammoth” label released “Hot”, the second Squirrel Nut Zippers studio album. It was recorded October – November 1995, and was produced by Brian Paulson and Mike Napolitano. The album was certified Platinum in USA by “RIAA”.

Personnel:

  • Jimbo Mathus – vocals, guitar, banjo, piano
  • Katharine Whalen – vocals, banjo, baritone ukulele
  • Tom Maxwell – vocals, guitar, baritone saxophone, clarinet, chandelier
  • Ken Mosher – vocals, guitar, alto and baritone saxophones
  • Don Raleigh – double bass, gong
  • Chris Phillips – drums, percussion, announcement
  • Clay Walker – multimedia
  • Duke Heitger – trumpet, cornet
  • Andrew Bird – violin

Track listing:

All tracks by Jimbo Mathus, except where noted.

  1. Got My Own Thing Now
  2. Put A Lid On It – Tom Maxwell
  3. Memphis Exorcism
  4. Twilight – Tom Maxwell
  5. It Ain’t You
  6. Prince Nez
  7. Hell – Tom Maxwell
  8. Meant to Be – Tom Maxwell
  9. Bad Businessman – Jimbo Mathus, Ken Mosher
  10. Flight of the Passing Fancy – Jimbo Mathus, Ken Mosher
  11. Blue Angel – Jimbo Mathus, Ken Mosher
  12. The Interlocutor – Ken Mosher

Gastr del Sol: The Serpentine Similar

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On June 1, 1993, “TeenBeat Records” label released “The Serpentine Similar”, the debut Gastr del Sol studio album. It was recorded 1992 – 1993, at “Experimental Sound” in Chicago, Illinois, “5th Floor” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was produced by Brian Paulson.

Personnel:

  • Bundy K. Brown – instruments
  • David Grubbs – instruments
  • John McEntire – additional percussion
  • Michael O’Bannon – cover art
  • Brian Paulson – recording

Track listing:

All tracks by Bundy K. Brown and David Grubbs.

  1. A Watery Kentucky
  2. Easy Company
  3. A Jar of Fat
  4. Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis
  5. Eye Street
  6. For Soren Müeller
  7. Serpentine Orbit
  8. Even the Odd Orbit

Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne

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On October 5, 1993, “Sire” label released “Anodyne”, the fourth and final Uncle Tupelo studio album. It was recorded May – June 1993 at “Cedar Creek Studio” in Austin, Texas, and was produced by Brian Paulson.

Personnel:

  • Jay Farrar – vocals and guitar, mandolin
  • Max Johnston – fiddle and lap steel guitar, banjo, dobro
  • John Stirratt – guitar, bass guitar
  • Jeff Tweedy – vocals, bass guitar, guitar
  • Ken Coomer – drums
  • Joe Ely – vocals
  • Brian Henneman – vocals
  • Lloyd Maines – pedal steel guitar
  • Doug Sahm – vocals, guitar
  • Brian Paulson – engineer, mixing
  • Scott Hull – mastering
  • Dave C. Birke – art direction, design
  • Dan Corrigan – photography

Track listing:

  1. Slate – Jay Farrar
  2. Acuff-Rose – Jedd Tweedy
  3. The Long Cut – Jeff Tweedy
  4. Give Back the Key to My Heart – Doug Sahm
  5. Chickamauga – Jay Farrar
  6. New Madrid – Jeff Tweedy
  7. Anodyne – Jay Farrar
  8. We’ve Been Had – Jeff Tweedy
  9. Fifteen Keys – Jay Farrar
  10. High Water – Jay Farrar
  11. No Sense in Lovin’ – Jeff Tweedy
  12. Steal the Crumbs – Jay Farrar

Unrest: Perfect Teeth

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On August 9, 1993, “4AD” label released “Perfect Teeth”, the seventh and final Unrest studio album. It was recorded in March 1993, at “Pachyderm Studios” in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.

Personnel:

  • Mark Robinson – lead vocals, guitar
  • Bridget Cross – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar
  • Phil Krauth – lead vocals, drums, piano, guitar
  • Brian Paulson– engineer, recording, mixing
  • Brent Sigmeth – recording assistant

Track listing:

All lyrics by Mark Robinson, except where noted, all music Bridget Cross, Phil Krauth and Mark Robinson.

  1. Angel I’ll Walk You Home
  2. Cath Carroll
  3. So Sick
  4. Light Command – lyrics by Bridget Cross
  5. Food & Drink Synthesizer
  6. Soon It Is Going to Rain
  7. Make Out Club
  8. Breather X.O.X.O.
  9. West Coast Love Affair – Phil Krauth
  10. Six Layer Cake
  11. Stylized Ampersand – Bridget Cross

Beck: Odelay

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Odelay

On June 18, 1996, “DGC” label released “Odelay”, the second Beck studio album. It was recorded 1994 – 1996, and was produced by Beck Hansen, The Dust Brothers,Mario Caldato, Jr, Brian Paulson,Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf. In 1997 “Odelay” won “Grammy Award” for “Best Alternative Music Album” and “Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance” for the song “Where It’s At”. “Rolling Stone” magazine voted “Odelay” “Album of the Year”, “Best Album of the Year” in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop” critics poll, and album of the year in “NME” annual critics poll. In 2003,”Rolling Stone” magazine ranked the album at number 306 on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. “Odelay” was certified Platinum in UK by the “BPI”, 2 x Platinum in the US by the “RIIA”.

Personnel:

  • Beck Hansen – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar, harmonicas, bass, drums, percussion, analog keyboards, electric piano, clavinet, organ, celesta, mixing, art direction, design
  • Greg Leisz– pedal steel guitar
  • Mike Boito– organ, trumpet
  • Charlie Haden– bass
  • Joey Waronker– drums, percussion
  • Mike Millius– scream
  • David Brown – saxophone
  • Jon Spencer– keychain
  • Dust Brothers–  mixing
  • Brian Paulson,Mario Caldato, Jr. – mixing
  • Tom Rothrock,Rob Schnapf – mixing
  • Jon Spencer – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig– mastering
  • Robert Fisher– art direction, design
  • Al Hansen,Manuel Ocampo, Zarim Osborn – collage images
  • Manuel Ocampo – inlay painting
  • Bob Ludwig – cover photography
  • Nitin Vadukul– Beck photography
  • Shauna O’Brien– coordination, production coordination

Track listing:

All tracks by Beck, John King and Michael Simpson, except where noted.

  1. Devils Haircut
  2. Hotwax
  3. Lord Only Knows – Beck Hansen
  4. The New Pollution
  5. Derelict
  6. Novacane
  7. Jack-Ass
  8. Where It’s At
  9. Minus – Beck Hansen.
  10. Sissyneck
  11. Readymade
  12. High 5 (Rock theCatskills)
  13. Ramshackle – Beck Hansen

Superchunk: Foolish

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On April 18, 1994, “Merge Records” label released “Foolish”, the fourth Superchunk studio album. It was recorded November- December, 1993, at “Pachyderm Studios”, and was produced by Brian Paulson.

Personnel:

  • Jim Wilbur – guitar, mixing
  • Mac McCaughan – vocals, guitar, mixing
  • Laura Balance – bass, mixing, cover art, photography
  • Jon Wurster – drums, mixing, liner notes
  • Brian Paulson – recording, mixing
  • Pen Rollings – photography
  • Diane Jefferis – photography

Track listing:

  1. Like a Fool
  2. The First Part
  3. Water Wings
  4. Driveway to Driveway
  5. Saving my Ticket
  6. Kicked In
  7. Why Do You Have to Put a Date on Everything
  8. Without Blinking
  9. Keeping Track
  10. Revelations
  11. Stretched Out
  12. In a Stage Whisper

 

Wilco: A.M.

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Wilco

On March 28, 1995, “Sire” label released “A.M.”, the debut Wilco album. It was recorded in1994, and was produced by Brian Paulson, Jeff Tweedy, Max Johnston, Brian Henneman, John Stirrat and Ken Coomer.

Personnel:

  • Jeff Tweedy – lead vocals, rhythm and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, engineer
  • Max Johnston – dobro, fiddle , mandolin , banjo , backing vocals, engineer
  • Brian Henneman – lead guitar, small stoned guitar, backing vocals, engineer
  • John Stirratt – vocals, bass guitar, piano, organ, acoustic guitar, engineer
  • Ken Coomer – drums, cowbell, a snare drum played with a brush, backing vocals,  engineer
  • Lloyd Maines – pedal steel guitar
  • Daniel Corrigan – backing vocals
  • Brian Henneman, Daniel Corrigan – handclaps, crowd noise, glass cheers
  • Brian Paulson– engineer, mixing
  • Richard Dodd –mixing
  • Howie Weinberg –mastering
  • Barbara Longo – design
  • Daniel Corrigan – photography
  • Bob Andrews – production coordinator

Track listing:

.All tracks y Jeff Tweedy, except where noted.

  1. I Must Be High
  2. Casino Queen
  3. Box Full of Letters
  4. Shouldn’t Be Ashamed
  5. Pick Up the Change
  6. I Thought I Held You
  7. That’s Not the Issue
  8. It’s Just That Simple – John Stirratt
  9. Should’ve Been in Love
  10. Passenger Side
  11. Dash 7
  12. Blue Eyed Soul
  13. Too Far Apart

 

Slint: Spiderland

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Slint-Spiderland

On March 27, 1991, “Touch and Go Records” label released “Spiderland”, the second and final Slint studio album. It was recorded August–October 1990, at “River North Records” in Chicago, and was produced by Brian Paulson.

Personnel:

  • David Pajo– guitar
  • Brian McMahan– vocals, guitar
  • Todd Brashear – bass guitar
  • Britt Walford– vocals, drums, guitar
  • Brian Paulson– engineer
  • Will Oldham– photography
  • Noel Saltzman – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Todd Brashear,  except where noted.

  1. Breadcrumb Trailwhere noted.
  2. Nosferatu Man
  3. Don, Aman – Brian McMahan, David Pajo, Britt Walford
  4. Washer
  5. For Dinner…
  6. Good Morning, Captain