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Steve Earle:I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive

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On April 26, 2011, “New West” label released “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive”, the 14th Steve Earle studio album. It was recorded May – November 2010, and was produced by T Bone Burnett.

Personnel:

  • Steve Earle – vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica
  • T Bone Burnett – vocals, electric guitar
  • Jackson Smith – electric guitar
  • Sara Watkins – vocals, fiddle
  • Keefus Ciancia – mellotron
  • Roland Guerin – acoustic bass
  • Dennis Crouch – bass
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Michael Brown – euphonium
  • Sammie Williams – trombone
  • Tracey Griffin – flugelhorn
  • Jonathan Gross – tuba
  • Tim Robbins
  • Allison Moorer – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Earle.

  1. Waitin’ on the Sky
  2. Little Emperor
  3. The Gulf of Mexico
  4. Molly-O
  5. God Is God
  6. Meet Me in the Alleway
  7. Every Part of Me
  8. Lonely Are the Free
  9. Heaven or Hell
  10. I Am a Wanderer
  11. This City

Alphaville: The Breathtaking Blue

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On April 4, 1989, “Warner Music” label released “The Breathtaking Blue”, the third Alphaville studio album. It was recorded 1987 – 1988, at “Lunapark Studios” in Berlin, Germany, and was produced by Klaus Schulze, Marian Gold, Frank Martens, Bernhard Lloyd and Ricky Echolette. 

Personnel:

  • Marian Gold – vocal
  • Frank Martens – vocal
  • Bernhard Lloyd – vocal, keyboards, guitar
  • Ricky Echolette – keyboards, guitar
  • Blacky Schwarz Ruszczynski, Micael Ryan, Eff Jott Krueger, Manuel Goettsching – guitar
  • Kenneth Ward – crescendo guitar
  • Ernst Deuker – double bass
  • Hansi Behrendt – drums, percussion
  • Thomas Keller, Friedemann Graef – saxophones
  • Michael Junker – trumpet
  • Julie Ocean – vocoder
  • Miriam Stockley, Mae McKenna, Patti Calore, The Lunapark Office Choir, Gabi Becker – backing vocals
  • Rainer Bloss – string and brass arrangements 
  • Klaus Schulze – string arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd and Ricky Echolette except where noted.

  • Summer Rain
  • Romeos
  • She Fade Away
  • The Mysteries of Love
  • Ariana
  • Heaven or Hell
  • For a Million – lyrics by Marian Gold, Janey Diamond, Bernhard Lloyd, Ricky Echolette
  • Middle of the Riddle
  • Patricia’s Park
  • Anyway