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Mavis Staple: Livin’ On A High Note

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On February 19, 2016, “Epitaph” label released “Livin’ on a High Note”, the Mavis Staples studio album. It was recorded in August 2015, at “Agoura Borealis” in Agoura Hills, California, “Kingsize” in Los Angeles, and “CRC” in Chicago, and was produced by Matthew Ward.

Personnel:

  • Mavis Staples – vocals
  • Donny Gerrard – vocals
  • Rick Holmstrom – guitar
  • Tucker Martine – tambourine, mixing
  • Matthew Ward – guitars, organ, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Jeff Turmes – bass
  • Stephen Hodges – drums
  • Alex Budman – tenor saxophone, flute
  • David Moyer – baritone saxophone
  • Sean Billings – trumpet
  • Nathaniel Walcott – trumpet, clavinet, horn arrangements
  • Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews – trumpet, trombone
  • Humberto Ruiz – trombone
  • Vicki Randle – backing vocals
  • Pierre de Reeder, Josh Kvale, Mat Lejeune – engineer
  • Adam Ayan – mastering
  • Masaki Koike – art direction, design

Track listing:

  1. Take Us Back – Benjamin Booker
  2. Love and Trust – Ben Harper
  3. If It’s a Light – Charity Rose Thielen
  4. Action – Merrill Garbus
  5. High Note – Valerie June
  6. Don’t Cry – Matthew Ward
  7. Tomorrow – Jon Batiste, Aloe Blacc
  8. Dedicated – Justine Vernon, Matthew Ward
  9. History Now – Neko Case, Donny Gerrard, Laura Veirs
  10. One Love – Aaron Livingston
  11. Jesus Lay Down Beside Me – Nick Cave
  12. MLK Song – Martin Luther King Jr., Matthew Ward

Joni MItchell: Night Ride Home

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Night Ride Home

On February 19, 1991, “Geffen” label released “Night Ride Home”, the fourteenth Joni Mitchell album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “A&M Studios” in Hollywood, and “One On One Studios”, and was produced by Joni Mitchell and Larry Klein.

Personnel:

  • Joni Mitchell – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, Billatron. oboe, Omnichord
  • Michael Landau – guitar
  • Bill Dillon – guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
  • Larry Klein – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – drums, snare drum
  • Alex Acuña – percussion
  • Karen Peris – backing vocals
  • Brenda Russell – backing vocals
  • David Baerwald – backing vocals
  • Jeremy Lubbock – conductor, arranger, string arrangement

Track listing:

All tracks by Joni Mitchell; except where noted

  1. Night Ride Home
  2. Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free)
  3. Cherokee Louise
  4. The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)
  5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – based on a poem – The Second Coming- by B. Yeats
  6. Come in from the Cold
  7. Nothing Can Be Done – words by Joni Mitchell, music by Larry Klein
  8. The Only Joy in Town
  9. Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac
  10. Two Grey Rooms

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind

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GreenMind

On February 19, 1991, “Blanco y Negro” label released “Green Mind”, the fourth Dinosaur Jr, studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, and was produced by J. Mascis. The cover photograph,  “Priscilla”  was by Joseph Szabo, taken from his book of photographs “Almost Grown”.

Personnel:

  • J. Mascis- vocals, guitar, drums, bass, producer
  • Murph- drums
  • Joe Harvard – guitar, tape
  • Jay Spiegel – drums, tambourine, tom-tom
  • Don Fleming- guitar, acoustic bass, backing vocals
  • Sean Slade- mellotron
  • Matt Dillon- backing vocals

Track listing:

All songs written by J Mascis, except where noted.

  1. The Wagon
  2. Puke + Cry
  3. Blowing It
  4. I Live for That Look
  5. Flying Cloud
  6. How’d You Pin That one on me
  7. Water
  8. Muck
  9. Thumb
  10. Green Mind

 

Mick Jagger: She’s The Boss

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Shestheboss

On February 19, 1983, “CBS” label released “She’s the Boss”, the debut Mick Jagger album. It was recorded May – November 1984, and was produced by Mick Jagger, Bill Laswell and Nile Rodgers.

Personnel:

  • Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals
  • Pete Townshend – guitar
  • Jeff Beck – guitar
  • Nile Rodgers – guitar
  • Eddie Martinez – guitar
  • E. Smith – guitar
  • Jam Hammer – piano
  • Robert Sabino – piano keyboards, synthesizer
  • Herbie Hancock – organ, synthesizer
  • Chuck Leavell – organ
  • Wally Badarou– synthesizer
  • Guy Fletcher – synthesizer
  • John “Rabbit” Bundrick– synthesizer
  • Ron Magness – synthesizer
  • Lenny Pickett – saxophone
  • Bill Laswell – bass, synthesizer
  • Colin Hodgkinson – bass guitar
  • Bernard Edwards – bass guitar
  • Robbie Shakespeare – bass guitar
  • Sly Dunbar– drums
  • Steve Ferrone– drums
  • Anton Fig– drums
  • Michael Shrieve – drums
  • Tony Thompson– drums
  • Daniel Ponce, bata drum, percussion
  • Ray Cooper – percussion
  • Anton Fler – percussion
  • Alyb Dieng – shaker
  • Alan Pickett – rapping
  • Bernard Fowler – backing vocals
  • Fonzi Thornton– backing vocals
  • Paul Buckmaster – string arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Lonely at the Top – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
  2. 1/2 a Loaf – Mick Jagger
  3. Running Out of Luck – Mick Jagger
  4. Turn the Girl Loose – Mick Jagger
  5. Hard Woman – Mick Jagger
  6. Just Another Night – Mick Jagger
  7. Lucky in Love – Mick Jagger, Carlos Alomar
  8. Secrets – Mick Jagger
  9. She’s the Boss – Mick Jagger, Carlos Alomar

 

Split Enz: Frenzy

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Frenzy

On February 19, 1979, “Mushroom Records” label released “Frenzy”, the fourth Split Enz album.  It was recorded November – December 1978, at “The Manor Studios” and “Startling Studios”, and was produced by Mallory Earl, David Tickle, Tim Finn, Meil Finn, Noel Crombie, Eddie Rayner, Malcolm Green and Nigel Griggs.

Personnel:

  • Tim Finn– vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • Neil Finn– vocals, guitar
  • Eddie Rayner– piano, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Nigel Griggs– bass, backing vocals
  • Malcolm Green– drums, backing vocals
  • Noel Crombie– percussion, backing vocals

Track listing:
All tracks by Tim Finn, except where noted.

  1. I See Red
  2. Give It a Whirl – Tim Finn, Neil Finn
  3. Master Plan
  4. Famous People
  5. Hermit McDermitt
  6. Stuff and Nonsense
  7. Marooned – Eddie Rayner
  8. Frenzy – Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner
  9. The Roughest, Toughest Game in the World
  10. She Got Body She Got Soul
  11. Betty
  12. Abu Dhabi – Tim Finn , Eddie Rayner
  13. Mind Over Matter – Tim Finn, Neil Finn

 

 

 

Bon Scott

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On February 19, 1980, Ronald Belford “Bon” Scott died aged 34. He was musician (drums), singer and songwriter, gained greatest success as the lead singer and lyricist of AC/DC. In 1964 Scott formed his first band, The Spektors, in 1964 and became the band’s drummer and singer, he performed in few other bands including The Valentines and Fraternity, before replacing Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC in 1974.