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Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Jacksonville City Nights

On September 26, 2005, “Lost Highway” label released “Jacksonville City Nights”, the seventh Ryan Adams studio album. It was recorded in 2005, in Nashville, TN, and in New York City, and was produced by Tom Schick.

Personnel:

The Cardinals

  • Ryan Adams – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • P. Bowersock – electric guitars
  • Jon Graboff – pedal steel, backing vocals
  • Catherine Popper – bass, piano, backing vocals
  • Brad Pemberton – drums, percussion
  • Bob Hoffnar – pedal steel
  • Norah Jones – vocals, piano
  • Glenn Patscha – piano, backing vocals
  • Joe McGinty – piano
  • Johnny T – drums
  • Claudia Chopek – violin
  • Michael Panes – violin
  • David Gold – violin, viola.
  • Julia Kent – cello.
  • Byron Isaacs – backing vocals.

The Nashville String Machine

  • Bergen White – arrangements, conductor
  • Carl Gorodetsky, Pamela Sixfin, Conni Ellisor, Allan Umstead, David Angell, Cathy Umstead, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – violin
  • Kris Wilkinson, Gary Vanosdale, Jim Grosjean – viola
  • Carole Rabinowitz, Bob Mason – cello

Track listing:

All lyrics by Ryan Adams, all music by Ryan Adams, J.P. Bowersock, Pemberton, Catherine Popper and Jon Graboff, except where noted.

  1. A Kiss Before I Go
  2. The End – Ryan Adams, Michael Panes
  3. Hard Way To Fall
  4. Dear John – Ryan Adams, Norah Jones
  5. The Hardest Part
  6. Games
  7. Silver Bullets
  8. Peaceful Valley
  9. September
  10. My Heart Is Broken – Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary
  11. Trains – Ryan Adams, Michael Panes
  12. Pa
  13. Withering Heights
  14. Don’t Fall Me Now

Neil Young: Old Ways

Old ways

On August 12, 1985,  “Geffen” label released “Old Ways”, the fourteenth studio Neil Young album. It was recorded January 1983  – April 1985 at “House Of David”, in Nashville, “The Castle” in Franklin TN,  “Pedernales Recording Studio” in Spicewood, TX , and live at “The Opry” in  Austin TX, and was produced by Neil Young, David Briggs, Ben Keith, and Elliot Mazer.

Personnel:

  • Neil Young – vocal, guitar, banjo, harmonica
  • Waylon Jennings – vocal, guitar
  • Willie Nelson – vocal, guitar
  • David Kirby – guitar
  • Grant Boatwright – guitar
  • Johnny Christopher – guitar
  • Ray Edenton – guitar
  • Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar, dobro
  • Ralph Mooney – pedal steel guitar
  • Béla Fleck – banjo
  • Bobby Thompson – banjo
  • Anthony Crawford: vocal, mandolin
  • Marty Stuart: mandolin
  • Rufus Thibodeaux – fiddle
  • Gordon Terry – fiddle
  • Hargus “Pig” Robbins – piano
  • Spooner Oldham – piano
  • Tim Drummond – bass
  • Joe Osborn – bass
  • Joe Allen – upright ad electric bass
  • Karl Himmel – drums
  • Farrell Morris – percussion
  • Terry McMillan: harmonica, jew’s harp
  • Gove Scrivenor: autoharp
  • Carl Gorodetzky: violin
  • Larry Byrom: vocal
  • Rick Palombi: vocal
  • Doana Cooper: vocal
  • Denise Draper: vocal
  • Gail Davies: vocal
  • Betsy Hammer: vocal
  • Pam Rose: vocal
  • Janis Oliver-Gill: vocal
  • Mary Ann Kennedy: vocal
  • Kristine Oliver-Arnold: vocal
  • Leona Williams: vocal
  • Strings:
    • Carl Gorodetsky, leader
    • George Binkley
    • John Borg
    • Roy Christensen
    • Virginia Christensen
    • Charles Everett
    • Larry Harvin
    • Mark Hembree
    • Lee Larrison
    • Betty McDonald
    • Dennis Molchan
    • Pamela Sixfin
    • Mark Tanner
    • David Vanderkooi
    • Gary Vanosdale
    • Carol Walker
    • Stephanie Woolf

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Young; except where noted.

  1. The Wayward Wind – Herb Newman, Stanley Lebowsky
  2. Get Back to the Country
  3. Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
  4. Once an Angle
  5. Misfits
  6. California Sunset
  7. Old Ways
  8. My Boy
  9. Bound to Glory
  10. Where Is the Highway Tonight