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Roger Glover: Mask

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On June 22, 1984, “21 Records / Polydor” labels released “Mask”, the fifth Roger Glover studio album. It was recorded 1983 – 1984, at “Bear Tracks Studios” in Suffern, New York, “Boogie Hotel Studios” in Port Jefferson, New York, “Le Studio” in Morin Heights, Quebec, and was produced by Roger Glover.

Personnel:

  • Roger Glover — lead vocals, bass, Ovation acoustic guitar, percussion, synthesizer, timbales, piano, mixing
  • Dave Gellis — guitar
  • Joe Jammer — guitar
  • David Rosenthal — keyboards
  • Jean Roussel — synthesizer
  • Chuck Burgi — drums
  • Mark Conese — electronic drums 
  • Nick Blagona — percussion, dub
  • Charlie DeChant — saxophone 
  • Craig Brooks — backing vocals
  • Kate McGarrigle — backing vocals
  • Denise Brooks — backing vocals
  • Kim Romano — backing vocals
  • Nick Blagona – engineer
  • Jeffrey Kawalek, Mike Barry – additional engineering
  • Nick Blagona – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Roger Glover, except where noted.

  1. Divided World
  2. Getting Stranger
  3. The Mask – Roger Glover, Jean Roussel
  4. Fake It
  5. Dancin’ Again – Roger Glover, Dave Gellis
  6. (You’re) So Remote
  7. Hip Level – Roger Glover, Chuck Burgi, Dave Gellis
  8. Don’t Look Down

Neil Diamond: Three Chord Opera

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On July 24, 2001, “Columbia” label released “Three Chord Opera”, the twenty-fifth Neil Diamond studio album. It was recorded 2000 – 2001, at “Arch Angel Studios” in Los Angeles, “Sony Pictures Studios” in Culver City, California, and was produced by Peter Asher and Alan Lindgren.

Personnel:

  • Neil Diamond – lead vocals
  • Hadley Hockensmith – acoustic and electric guitar, 12-string guitar
  • Doug Rhone – acoustic and electric guitar, tiple 
  • Michael Thompson – electric guitar
  • Jaydee Manes – pedal steel guitar
  • Alan Lindgren – piano, keyboards, Hammond organ, drums, percussion, programming, arrangements, conductor
  • Tom Hensley – piano, Fender Rhodes
  • Dominic Ordinaire – accordion
  • Reinie Press – bass
  • Chuck Domanico – bass
  • Ron Tutt – drums
  • Russ Kunkel – drums
  • Peter Asher – percussion, autoharp, backing vocals, programming
  • Vince Charles – percussion, tambourine, steel drums, congas, marimba
  • Everette Harp – tenor saxophone
  • Emilio Castillo – tenor saxophone
  • Norbert Satchel – tenor saxophone
  • Larry Klimas – tenor saxophone
  • Don Markese – baritone saxophone, clarinet
  • Stephen “Doc” Kupka – baritone saxophone
  • Daniel Fornero – trumpet
  • Ralf Rickert – trumpet
  • Greg Adams – trumpet, horn arrangements
  • Adolfo Acosta – trumpet
  • Michael Bogart – trumpet, trombone
  • Assa Drori – concertmaster, violin
  • Evan Wilson – violin
  • Shari Zippert – violin
  • Susie Katayama – cello
  • Linda Press – harmony vocals
  • Colin Mitchell – backing vocals
  • Wendy Worth – backing vocals
  • Alvin Chea – backing vocals
  • Craig Copeland – backing vocals
  • Randy Crenshaw – backing vocals
  • Robert Joyce – backing vocals
  • Luana Jackman – chorus master, vocal contractor
  • Marc Mann – backing vocals, programming, sequencing
  • Jeff Turzo – additional programming
  • Bernie Becker – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Colin Mitchell – recording assistant
  • Alan Mason – mixing assistant
  • Gabrielle Raumberger – art direction
  • Samantha Ahdoot – design
  • Rocky Schenck – photography
  • Ivy Skoff – production coordination
  • Sam Cole – album coordination

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Diamond.

  1. I Haven’t Played This Song in Years
  2. Don’t Look Down
  3. I Believe in Happy Endings
  4. At the Movies
  5. Midnight Dream
  6. You Are the Best Part of Me
  7. Baby Let’s Drive
  8. My Special Someone
  9. A Mission of Love
  10. Elijah’s Song
  11. Leave a Little Room for God
  12. Turn Down the Lights

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

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On January 17, 2020, “Dine Alone” label released “X: The Godless Void and Other Stories”, the tenth …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead studio album. It was recorded 2018 – 2019, at “Mosaic Sound Collective”, “Scary American”, ”The Henhouse Studio”, “The Library Studios” in Nashville, and was produced by Charles Godfrey and Conrad Keely.

Personnel:

  • Jason Reece – drums, guitar
  • Conrad Keely – vocals, guitar, artwork, design
  • Aaron Blount – guitar
  • Autry Fulbright II – bass guitar
  • Jamie Miller – drums, percussion
  • Krystal Morris – vocal, percussion
  • Cully Symington – drums
  • Will Courtney – backing vocals
  • Charles Godfrey – recording
  • Rich Mendez – pre-production assistant
  • Peter Van ‘t Riet – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Jason Reece and Conrad Keely.

  1. The Opening Crescendo
  2. All Who Wander
  3. Something Like This
  4. Into the Godless Void
  5. Don’t Look Down
  6. Gone
  7. Children of the Sky
  8. Who Haunts the Haunter
  9. Eyes of the Overworld
  10. Gravity
  11. Blade of the Wind
  12. Through the Sunlit Door

Lindsey Buckingham: Out of the Cradle

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On June 16, 1992, “Reprise” label released “Out of the Cradle”, the third Lindsey Buckingham studio album. It was recorded 1988 -1992, and was produced by Lindsey Buckingham and Richard Dashut.

Personnel:

  • Lindsey Buckingham – vocals, guitars, bass guitar,  keyboards,  synthesizer, drums, percussion, drum and percussion programming, Polaroid art
  • Mitchell Froom – organ
  • Larry Klein – bass
  • Buell Neidlinger – bass
  • Alex Acuña – percussion
  • Richard Dashut, Greg Droman, Kevin Killen – engineer
  • Lori Fumar, Eric Rudd, Talley Sherwood – engineer assistant
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Greg Gorman, Ron Slenzak – photography
  • Richard Dashut – Polaroid art
  • Walter Egan – woodcuts

Track listing:

All tracks by Lindsey Buckingham, except where noted.

  1. Instrumental Introduction To
  2. Don’t Look Down
  3. Wrong – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  4. Countdown
  5. All My Sorrows – The Kingston Trio
  6. Soul Drifter
  7. Instrumental Introduction To – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  8. This is the Time – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  9. You Do or You Don’t – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  10. Street of Dreams – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  11. Spoken Introduction To – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  12. Surrender the Rain – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  13. Doing What I Can
  14. Turn It On – Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut
  15. This Nearly Was Mine – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
  16. Say We’ll Meet Again – Lindsey Buckingham, Robert Aquirre

Screaming Trees: Even If and Especially When

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On March 28, 1987, “SST” label released “Even If and Especially When” the second Screaming Trees studio album. It was recorded in 1986, at “Velvetone” in Ellensburg, WA, and was produced by Steve Fisk, Mark Lanegan, Van Conner, Gary Lee Conner and Mark Pickerel.

Personnel:

  • Mark Lanegan – vocals
  • Gary Lee Conner – guitar, organ, back cover photography
  • Van Conner – bass
  • Mark Pickerel – drums
  • John Golden – mastering
  • Diane Szukovathy – design
  • Jeff Price – front cover photography

Track listing:

  1. Transfiguration
  2. Straight Out to Any Place
  3. World Painted
  4. Don’t Look Down
  5. Girl Behind the Mask
  6. Flying
  7. Cold Rain
  8. Other Days and Different Planets
  9. The Pathway
  10. You Know Where It’s All
  11. Back Together
  12. In the Forest

Finger Eleven: Life Turns Electric

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On October 5, 2010, “Wind-Up” label released “Life Turns Electric”, the fifth Finger Eleven studio album. It was recorded January – June 2010, at “Wind-up Studios” in New York City, and was produced by James Black, Rick Jacket, Gregg Wattenberg and Ross Peterson.

Personnel:

  • Scott Anderson – vocals
  • James Black – vocals, guitar
  • Rick Jackett – guitar
  • Sean Anderson – bass
  • Rich Beddoe – drums
  • Ross Petersen – engineer, editing
  • John Alicastro, Keith Armstrong, Nik Karpen – engineer assistant
  • Chris Lord-Alge, Brad Townsend, Andrew Schubert, Rich Costey, Charles L. Stavish Jr. – mixing
  • Ryan Smith, Ted Jensen – mastering
  • James Black – art direction
  • Mike Mongillo, Michelle Lukianovich – art concept

Track listing:

.All tracks by Scott Anderson, James Black, Rick Jackett, Sean Anderson and Rich Beddoe, except where noted.

  1. Any Moment Now
  2. Pieces Fit
  3. Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me
  4. Living in a Dream – Scott Anderson, James Black, Rick Jackett, Sean Anderson, Rich Beddoe,, Gregg Wattenberg
  5. Good Intentions
  6. Stone Soul
  7. Ordinary Life
  8. Don’t Look Down
  9. Famous Last Words
  10. Love’s What You Left Me With

David Bowie: Tonight

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On September 24, 1984, “EMI America” label released “Tonight”, the sixteenth David Bowie studio album. It was recorded May – June 1984, at “Le Studio” in Quebec, Canada, and was produced by David Bowie, Derek Bramble and Hugh Padgham.

Personnel:

  • David Bowie– lead vocals
  • Tina Turner– lead vocals
  • Derek Bramble – guitar, guitar synthesizer, bass guitar, synthesizer,  backing vocals
  • Carlos Alomar– guitars
  • Carmine Rojas– bass guitar
  • Omar Hakim– drums
  • Guy St. Onge – marimba
  • Sammy Figueroa– percussion
  • Iggy Pop– backing vocals
  • Robin Clark, George Simms, Curtis King – backing vocals

The Borneo Horns

  • Stanley Harrison– alto and tenor saxophone
  • Lenny Pickett– tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Steve Elson – baritone saxophone
  • Arif Mardin– synthesizer, string arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Loving the Alien – David Bowie
  2. Don’t Look Down – Iggy Pop, James Williamson
  3. God Only Knows – Brian Wilson, Tony Asher
  4. Tonight – David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Ricky Gardiner
  5. Neighborhood Threat – David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Ricky Gardiner
  6. Blue Jean – David Bowie
  7. Tumble and Twirl – David Bowie, Iggy Pop
  8. I Keep Forhettin – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  9. Dancing With the Big Boys – David Bowie, Carlos Alomar

Iggy Pop: New Values

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In April 1979, “Arista” label released “New Values”, the fourth Iggy Pop studio album. It was recorded in 1979, at “Paramount Recording Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by James Williamson.

Personnel:

  • Iggy Pop – vocals
  • Scott Thurston – vocals, guitars, harp, keyboards, synthesizer, horn arrangement
  • James Williamson– guitar, horn and string arrangement, mixing
  • Jackie Clark – bass
  • Klaus Krüger – drums
  • John Harden – horns
  • David Brock – strings, string arrangement
  • Earl Shackelford – backing vocals
  • The Alfono Sisters (Anna and Mary) – backing vocals
  • Peter Haden – engineer, mixing
  • Paul Henry – art direction, design
  • Graphyk – sleeve graphics
  • Trevor Rogers – photography
  • Lloyd Malan – production assistant

Track listing:

  1. Tell Me a Story – Iggy Pop
  2. New Values – Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston
  3. Girls – Iggy Pop
  4. I’m Bored – Iggy Pop
  5. Don’t Look Down – Iggy Pop, James Williamson
  6. Five Foot One – Iggy Pop
  7. How Do Ya Fix a Broken Part – Iggy Pop
  8. Angel – Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston
  9. Curiosity – Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston
  10. African Man – Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston
  11. Billy Is a Runaway – Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston