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Bill Frisell: Good Dog, Happy Man

On May 18, 1999, “Elektra Nonesuch” label released “Good Dog, Happy Man”. the 11th Bill Frisell album. It was recorded in 1998, at “O’Henry Sound” in Burbank, California, and was produced by Lee Townsend.

Personnel:

  • Bill Frisell – acoustic and electric guitars, loops, music boxes
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel, Dobro, lap steel, Weissenborn, National steel guitar, mandolin
  • Ry Cooder – guitar
  • Wayne Horvitz – organ, piano, samples
  • Viktor Krauss – bass
  • Jim Keltner – drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Frisell, except where noted.

  1. Rain, Rain
  2. Roscoe
  3. Big Shoe
  4. My Buffalo Girl
  5. Shenandoah – for Johnny Smith – traditional
  6. Cadillac 1959
  7. The Pioneers
  8. Cold, Cold Ground
  9. That Was Then
  10. Monroe
  11. Good Dog, Happy Man
  12. Poem For Eva

Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny: Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint

On March 3, 1989, “Elektra Nonesuch” label released “Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint”, album by Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny. It was recorded in 1988, at “Russian Hill Recording” in San Francisco, “Power Station” in New York City, and was produced by Judith Sherman.

Personnel:

  • Pat Metheny – guitar
  • David Harrington – violin (Kronos Quartet)
  • John Sherba – violin (Kronos Quartet)
  • Hank Dutt – viola (Kronos Quartet)
  • Joan Jeanrenaud – cello (Kronos Quartet)
  • Les Brockman – engineer
  • Rob Eaton – engineer
  • Rob Eaton – mixing
  • Gary Solomon, Michael Ahearn – engineer assistant
  • Ben Fowler – mixing assistant
  • Robert C. Ludwig – mastering
  • Jennifer Keats – production coordinator
  • David Oakes – producer assistant
  • Frank Olinsky, Manhattan Design – art direction, design
  • Karl Steinbrenner – photography
  • Betty Freeman – commissioned by
  • Steve Reich – liner notes
  • Robert Hurwitz – executive producer

Track listing:

Different Trains

All tracks by Steve Reich.

Performed by Kronos Quartet.

  1. America Before the War
  2. Europe During the War
  3. After the War

Electric Counterpoint

All tracks by Steve Reich.

Performed by Pat Metheny.

  1. Fast
  2. Slow
  3. Fast