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Elvis Costello & T Bone Burnett: The Coward Brothers

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On November 21, 2024, “New West” label released “The Coward Brothers”, album by Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett. It was recorded in 2024, at “Electric Lady” in New York, “East Iris” and “Blackbird” in Nashville, “The Village” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett (as Henry and Howard Coward).

Personnel:

  • Elvis Costello (as Howard Coward) – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, upright piano, organ, sounds, electric bass, tambourine, drums, whistle, bass drum, handclaps, drum machine, Moog synthesizer, grand piano, congas, percussion
  • T Bone Burnett (as Henry Coward) – vocals, electric guitar, electric bass, six-string bass, electric sitar
  • Christopher Guest (as Christopher Guest-Coward) – vocals, “missiles”, acoustic guitar
  • Colin Linden – electric sitar, electric guitar, slide dobro 
  • Dennis Crouch – double bass 
  • Russell Pahl – pedal steel
  • Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion
  • Paul Kowert – arco bass 
  • Diana Krall (as Jean Coward) – upright piano, grand piano
  • “Peter Coward” – military drum 
  • “Dexter Coward” – gunshots
  • “Concepta Collins” – heels
  • Rachael Moore – mixing, recording
  • Michael Piersante – mixing, recording
  • Gavin Larssen – mastering
  • Reuben Cohen – mastering
  • Jeff Powell – vinyl mastering
  • Billy Theriot – additional engineering
  • Miek Stankiewicz – additional engineering
  • Collin Bryson – engineer assistant
  • Austin Brown – engineer assistant
  • Karl Wingate – engineer assistant
  • Eddie Roberts – engineer assistant
  • Ivy Skoff – production coordination
  • Drew Christie – illustrations
  • Tom Bejgrowicz – design, layout

Track listing:

  1. Always – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  2. Like Licorice – Elvis Costello
  3. My Baby Just Squeals (You Heel) – Elvis Costello
  4. The Devil’s Wife – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  5. Tipsy Woman – Elvis Costello
  6. My baby Just Purrs (You’re Mine, Not Hers) – Elvis Costello
  7. My Baby Just Whistles (Here Comes the Missiles) Elvis Costello
  8. World Serious – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  9. Early Shirley – Elvis Costello
  10. Yesteryear Is Near – Elvis Costello
  11.  Birkenhead Girl – Elvis Costello
  12. Smoke-Ring Angel – Elvis Costello, Christopher Guest
  13. Wooden Woman – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
  14. (I Don’t Want Your) – Lyndon Johnson – Elvis Costello
  15. Lotta Money – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Christopher Guest
  16. Pure Bubblegum – Elvis Costello
  17. Cathy Com Home – Elvis Costello
  18. Bygones – T Bone Burnett
  19. Row Me Once – T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Christopher Guest
  20. Clown Around Town – Elvis Costello

Primal Scream: Come Ahead

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On November 8, 2024, “BMG” label released “Come Ahead”, the twelfth Primal Scream studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by David Holmes.

Personnel:

  • Bobby Gillespie – vocals
  • Andrew Innes – guitar, mandolin, synthesizer
  • Simone Butler – spoken word
  • Anna Caragnano – spoken word, backing vocals
  • Renee Alleyne – rap vocals, spoken word
  • Daniel Gethin – alto vocals
  • Josh Quinlan – baritone vocals
  • Sophie Ellis – soprano vocals
  • Matthew Minter – tenor vocals
  • Cian Nugent – guitar
  • Alex White – piano, horn, saxophone
  • Daniel Thomas – piano
  • Benjamin Darvill – harmonica 
  • Darrin Morris – keyboards
  • David Holmes – keyboards, loops
  • Brian Irvine – keyboards, conductor
  • Dan Bodwel – double bass
  • Maeve Sheil – double bass
  • Paul Stephens – double bass
  • Jason Falkner – bass guitar
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Emre Ramanzanoglu – drums
  • Davey Chegwidden – percussion
  • Bogdan Sofei – violin
  • Larissa O’Grady – violin
  • Cillian O’Breachin – violin
  • David O’Doherty – violin
  • Nina Lin – violin
  • Emma Masterson – violin
  • Ingrid Nichola – violin
  • Christine Kenny – violin
  • David McElroy – violin
  • Nathan Sherman – viola
  • David Kenny – viola
  • Adele Govier – viola 
  • Andreea Banciu – viola
  • Yseult Cooper Stockdale – cello
  • Aoife Burke – cello
  • Paula Hughes – cello
  • Adrian Mantu – cello
  • Felix Stephens – cello, conductor
  • House Gospel Choir – backing vocals
  • David Wrench – additional programming
  • Felix Stephens – arrangements, string arrangements, engineer
  • Brian Irvine – arrangements, strings arrangements
  • Josh Quinlan – arrangements
  • Ralph Allwood – arrangements
  • Daniel Thomas – arrangements
  • Michael Harris – engineer
  • Debbie Smith – engineer
  • Alan Kelly – engineer
  • David Wrench – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Amy Ratcliffe – studio assistant
  • Grace Banks – studio assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Bobby Gillespie and David Holmes, except where noted.

  1. Ready to Go Home – Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, David Holmes
  2. Love Insurrection – Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, David Holmes
  3. Heal Yourself
  4. Innocent Money – Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, David Holmes
  5. Melancholy Man – Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, David Holmes
  6. Love Ain’t Enough
  7. Circus of Life
  8. False Flag – Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, Brian irvine
  9. Deep Dark Waters – Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, David Holmes
  10. The Centre Cannot Hold
  11. Settler’s Blues

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

T Bone Burnett: The Other Side

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On April 19, 2024, “Verve” label released “The Other Side”, the 15th T Bone Burnett album. It was recorded in 2023, at “Pinhead Recorders” in Nashville, “The Village” in Los Angeles, and was produced by T Bone Burnett, Colin Linden and Mike Piersante.

Personnel:

  • T Bone Burnett – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
  • Colin Linden – dobro, acoustic and electric guitar, Kalamazoo guitar, National guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar 
  • Steven Soles – hi-strung acoustic guitar, harmony vocals
  • Rory Hoffman – dobro, claviola, clarinet, cuatro, acoustic guitar
  • Stuart Duncan – mandolin, violin
  • Mike Piersante – tambourine, handclaps
  • Jay Bellerose – tambourine, handclaps
  • Dennis Crouch – string bass
  • Rosanne Cash – harmony vocals
  • Lucius – harmony vocals
  • Peter More – harmony vocals
  • Weyes Blood – harmony vocals
  • Colin Linden – engineer
  • Mike Piersante – engineer, mixing
  • Mike Stankiewicz – engineer
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Reuben Cohen – mastering
  • Kyledidthis – creative direction, design
  • Tai Linzie – art coordination
  • Dan Winters – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by T Bone Burnett, except where noted.

  1. He Came Down
  2. Come Back (When You Go Away
  3. (I’m Gonna Get Over This) Some Day
  4. Waiting for You – Colin Linden
  5. The Pain of Love
  6. The Race Is Won
  7. Sometimes I Wonder – Colin Linden
  8. Hawaiian Blue Song – Bob Neuwirth, Steven Soles
  9. The First Light of Day – Steven Soles
  10. Everything and Nothing – Gary Nicholson
  11. The Twon That Time Forgot – Peter Moore
  12. Little Darling

Buddy and Julie Miller: Written In Chalk

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On March 3, 2009, “New West” label released “Written in Chalk”, album by Buddy and Julie Miller. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by Buddy and Julie Miller.

Personnel:

  • Julie Miller – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Buddy Miller – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Emmylou Harris – vocals
  • Patty Griffin – vocals
  • Robert Plant – vocals
  • Gurf Morlix – lap steel guitar
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
  • Matt Rollings – piano
  • Larry Campbell – fiddle, mandolin
  • John Deaderick – piano, keyboards
  • Chris Donohue – bass
  • Dennis Crouch – bass
  • Byron House – bass
  • Brady Blade, Jr. – drums
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Byran Owings – drums
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle
  • Kami Lyle – trumpet
  • Ann McCrary – backing vocals
  • Regina McCrary – backing vocals
  • Brian Kershisnik – album art (cover painting)

Track listing:

All tracks by Julie Miller, except where noted.

  1. Ellis County
  2. Gasoline and Matches – Julie Miller, Buddy Miller
  3. Don’t Say Goodbye
  4. What You Gonna Do Leroy – Mel Tillis
  5. Long Time
  6. One Part, Two Part – Dee Ervin
  7. Chalk
  8. Everytime We Say Goodbye
  9. Hush, Sorrow
  10. Memphis Jane
  11. June
  12. The Selfishness in Man – Leon Payne

Patty Griffin: Downtown Church

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On January 26, 2010, “Crediental” label released “Downtown Church”, the sixth Patty Griffin studio album. It was recorded in January 2009, at “Downtown Presbyterian Church” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Buddy Miller. In 2011, “Downtown Church” won the “Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album”. The album won a “Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year” at the 42nd “GMA Dove Awards”.

Personnel:

  • Patty Griffin – vocals
  • Buddy Miller – vocals, guitar, mixing
  • Doug Lancio – guitar
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
  • John Deaderick – piano
  • Dennis Crouch – bass
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Bryan Owings – percussion
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle
  • John Catchings – cello
  • Emmylou Harris – vocals
  • Raul Malo – vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale – vocals
  • Shawn Colvin – vocals
  • Mike Farris – vocals
  • Julie Miller – vocals
  • Regina McCrary – vocals
  • Ann McCrary – vocals
  • Mike Poole – engineer
  • Gordon Hammond – engineer assistant
  • Jim DeMain – mastering
  • Kathi Whitley – production coordination
  • Maple Byrne – production assistant

Track listing:

  1. House of Gold – Hank Williams
  2. Move Up – traditional
  3. Little Fire – Patty Griffin
  4. Death’s Got a Warrant – traditional
  5. If I Had My Way – Reverend Gary Davis
  6. Coming Home to Me – Patty Griffin
  7. Wade in the Water – traditional
  8. Never Grow Old – traditional
  9. Virgen de Guadalupe – traditional
  10. I Smell a Rat – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  11. Waiting for My Child – Sullivan Pugh
  12. The Strange Man – Dorothy Love Coates
  13. We Shall All Be Reunited – A. Karnes, B. Bateman
  14. All Creatures of Our God and King – traditional

Aimee Mann: Queens Of The Summer Hotel

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On November 5, 2021, “SuperEgo” label released “Queens of the Summer Hotel”, the tenth Aimee Mann studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “United Recording”, and was produced by Paul Bryan.

Personnel:

  • Aimee Mann – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Jamie Edwards – piano
  • Anna Butterss – bass guitar
  • Jay Bellerose – percussion, trap kit
  • Aidan Lombard – trumpet
  • Phillip O’Connor – clarinet
  • Sara Andon – flute, alto flute, piccolo
  • Danielle Ondarza – horn
  • Maya Barrera – oboe
  • Paul Bryan – woodwind, strings, backing vocals
  • Daphne Chan – violin
  • Leah Katz – viola
  • Richard Dodd – cello
  • Paul Bryan – arrangements, conduction
  • Ryan Freeland – engineer, mixing
  • Jens Wortmann – cover collage
  • Scott Silva – cover photo
  • Ed Sherman – design
  • Karen Malluk – production coordination

Track listing:

All tracks by Aimee Mann.

  1. You Fall
  2. Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath
  3. Give Me Fifteen
  4. At the Frick Museum
  5. Home by Now
  6. Checks
  7. Little Chameleon
  8. You Don’t Have yje Room
  9. Suicide Is Murder
  10. You Could Have Been a Roosevelt
  11. Burn It Out
  12. In Mexico
  13. Check (reprise)
  14. You’re Lost
  15. I See You

Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi

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On April 21, 2009, “Nonesuch” label released “The Bright Mississippi”, the tenth Allen Toussaint album. It was recorded in March 2008, and was produced by Joe Henry. 

Personnel:

  • Allen Toussaint – vocals, piano
  • Marc Ribot – acoustic guitar
  • Brad Mehldau – piano
  • David Piltch – upright bass
  • Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion
  • Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone
  • Nicholas Payton – trumpet
  • Don Byron – clarinet

Track listing:

  1. Egyptian Fantasy – Sidney Bechet, John Reid
  2. Dear Old Southland – Raymond Bloch
  3. St. James Infirmary – traditional
  4. Singin’ the Blues – Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson
  5. Whinin’ Boy Blues – Jelly Roll Morton
  6. West End Blues – Joe Oliver, Clarence Williams
  7. Blue Drag – Django Reinhardt
  8. Just a Closer Walk with Thee – traditional
  9. Bright Mississippi – Thelonious Monk
  10. Day Dream – Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
  11. Long, Long Journey – Leonard Feather
  12. Solitude – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange

Sharon Van Etten: We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

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On May 6, 2022, “Jagjaguwar” label released “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong”, the sixth Sharon Van Etten studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Daniel Knowles and Sharon Van Etten.

Personnel:

  • Sharon Van Etten – vocals, keyboards, guitar, tambourine, piano, organ, synthesizer, drums, recording
  • Devin Hoff – guitar
  • Benji Lysaght – guitar
  • Zachary Dawes – guitar
  • Dave Palmer – piano
  • Charley Damski – synthesizer, guitar, glockenspiel
  • Daniel Knowles – bass, percussion
  • Jorge Balbi – drums, percussion
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Owen Pallett – strings
  • Jorge Balbi – programming 
  • Daniel Knowles – programming, recording
  • Mike Piersante – recording
  • Beatriz Artola – mixing
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Sharon Van Etten.

  1. Darkness Fades
  2. Home to Me
  3. I’ll Try
  4. Anything
  5. Born
  6. Headspace
  7. Come Back
  8. Darkish
  9. Mistakes
  10. Far Away

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof

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On November 19, 2021, “Rounder Records” and “Concord Records” labels released “Raise the Roof”, the second Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by T Bone Burnett.

Personnel:

  • Robert Plant – vocals
  • Alison Krauss – vocals, fiddle
  • Bill Frisell – acoustic and electric guitar
  • David Hidalgo – acoustic and electric guitar, jarana
  • Buddy Miller – electric mandolin, guitar
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar, guitar, bass guitar
  • Marc Ribot – acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, dobro, bass guitar
  • Stuart Duncan – banjo, cello, fiddle, mandolin
  • Colin Linden – dobro
  • Jeff Taylor – bass accordion, dolceola, Marxophone, piano
  • T Bone Burnett – six-string bass, acoustic and electric guitars, Mellotron,  harmony and backing vocals
  • Dennis Crouch – upright bass
  • Viktor Krauss – upright bass, mellotron
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Lucinda Williams – backing vocals
  • Michael Piersante  – recording, mixing
  • Richard Evans – design, art

Track listing:

  1. Quatro (World Drifts In) – Joey Burns, John Convertino
  2. The Price of Love – Don Everly, Phil Everly
  3. Go Your Way – Anne Brigs
  4. Trouble with My Lover – Allen Toussaint
  5. Searching for My Love – Bobby Moore
  6. Can’t Let Go – Randy Weeks
  7. It Don’t Bother Me – Bert Jansch
  8. You Led Med to the Wrong – Ola Belle Reed
  9. Last Kind Words Blues – Geeshie Wiley
  10. High and Lonesome – Robert Plant, T Bone Burnett
  11. Going Where the Lonely Go – Merle Haggard, Dean Holloway
  12. Somebody Was Watching Over Me – Brenda Burns