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The Rolling Stones: Vodoo Lounge

Voodoo Lounge

On July 11, 1994, “Virgin” label released “Voodoo Lounge”, the twentieth Rolling Stones (The) studio album. It was recorded September 1993 – April 1994, and was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins. “Voodoo Lounge” is the band’s first album without Bill Wyman on bass, and the last Rolling Stones album published on cassette. The album was certified 3 x Platinum in Canada by “Music Canada”; Platinum in Germany by “BVMI”; Platinum in Mexico by “AMPROFON”; Platinum in Netherlands by “NVPI” and 2 x Platinum in the US by the “RIIA”.

Personnel:

  • Mick Jagger– lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica, maracas, castanets
  • Keith Richards– electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals; lead vocals,  piano, tambourine
  • Ronnie Wood– electric, pedal steel, acoustic, slide and lap steel guitars, backing vocals
  • Darryl Jones– bass guitar
  • Charlie Watts– drums, tambourine
  • Pierre de Beauport – acoustic guitar
  • Ivan Neville – organm backing vocals
  • Benmont Tench– organ, piano, accordion
  • Chuck Leavell– piano, organ, harmonium, harpsichord
  • Flaco Jimenez– accordion
  • David McMurray –saxophone
  • Mark Isham– trumpet
  • Luís Jardim– percussion, shaker
  • Lenny Castro– percussion
  • Phil Jones – percussion
  • Frankie Gavin– fiddle, pennywhistle
  • Max Baca – bajo sexto
  • Bernard Fowler– backing vocals
  • Bobby Womack– backing vocals
  • David Campbell– string arrangement
  • 4i – art direction, design
  • Mark Norton – art directon, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

  1. Love is Strong
  2. You Got Me Rocking
  3. Sparks Will Fly
  4. The Worst
  5. New faces
  6. Moon Is Up
  7. Out of Tears
  8. I Go Wild
  9. Brand New Car
  10. Sweethearts Together
  11. Suck on Jugular
  12. Blinded by rainbows
  13. Baby Break It Down
  14. Thru and Thru

Elvis Costello: Spike

Elvis_Costello_Spike

On February 7, 1989, “Warner Bros.” released “Spike”, the 12th Elvis Costello studio album. It was recorded 1987 – 1988, and was produced by Elvis Costello, Kevin Killen and T-Bone Burnett.

Personnel:

  • Elvis Costello– vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, piano, bells, acoustic bass guitar, organ, melodica
  • T-Bone Burnett– acoustic guitar, bass, national steel guitar
  • Dónal Lunny– acoustic guitar, bouzouki, electric bouzouki
  • Marc Ribot– banjo, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, sounds
  • Roger McGuinn– twelve-string guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar
  • Allen Toussaint– grand piano
  • Mitchell Froom– organ, harmonium, electric piano, Chamberlin, Indian harmonium
  • Benmont Tench– piano, clavinet, spinet, Vox Continental
  • Derek Bell– Irish harp, hammered dulcimer
  • Frankie Gavin – fiddle
  • Davy Spillane– pipe, uilleann pipes, Low whistle
  • Steve Wickham– fiddle
  • Christy Moore– bodhran
  • Paul McCartney– Hofner bass guitar, Rickenbacker bass guitar
  • Nick Lowe– bass
  • Buell Neidlinger– cello, double bass
  • Jerry Scheff– electric bass, double bass, fuzz bass
  • Tom “T-Bone” Wolk– accordion, bass
  • Pete Thomas – drums
  • Willie Green – drums
  • Jerry Marotta– drums
  • Pete Thomas– drums
  • Lionel Batiste– bass drum
  • Jenell Marshall– snare drum
  • Jim Keltner– tom-toms, snare drum, Chinese cymbal
  • Michael Blair – glockenspiel, marimba, tambourine, xylophone, bells, timpani, vibraphone, Chinese drums, Oldsmobilehubcap, Parade drum, anvil, whiplash, crash-box, temple bells, snare drum, “magic table”, metal pipe, “Martian dog bark”
  • Ralph Forbes – electric drums, drum programming
  • Cait O’Riordan– maracas, bells
  • Kevin Harris– tenor saxophone
  • Charles Joseph– trombone
  • Kirk Joseph– sousaphone
  • Roger Lewis– baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Gregory Davis– trumpet
  • Efrem Towns– trumpet
  • Chrissie Hynde– harmony vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Elvis Costello, except where noted.

  1. …This Town…
  2. Let Him Dangle
  3. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
  4. Veronica – Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney
  5. God’s Comic
  6. Chewing Gum
  7. Tramp the Dirt Down
  8. Stalin Malone
  9. Satellite
  10. Pads, Paws and Claws – Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney
  11. Baby Plays Around – Elvis Costello and Cait O’Riordan
  12. Miss Macbeth
  13. Any King’s Shilling
  14. Coal-Train Robberies
  15. Last Boat Leaving