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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

The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen

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On October 5, 1993, “Elektra” label released “Gentlemen”, the fourth Afghan Whigs (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1993, at “Ardent Studios” in Memphis, and was poroduced by Greg Dulli.

Personnel:

  • Greg Dulli – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Rick McCollum – lead guitar
  • John Curley – bass, engineer
  • Steve Earle – drums
  • Harold Chichester – piano, mellotron
  • Barb Hunter – cello
  • Marcy Mays – vocals
  • Jody Stephens – backing vocals 
  • Jeff Powell, John Hampton – engineer
  • Jeffrey Reed – engineer assistant
  • Billy Phelps – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Greg Dulli, except where noted.

  1. If I Were Going
  2. Gentlemen
  3. Be Sweet – Greg Dulli, Rick McCollum
  4. Debonair
  5. When We Two Parted – Greg Dulli, Rick McCollum
  6. Fountain and Fairfax
  7. What Jail Is Like
  8. My Curse
  9. Now You Know
  10. I Keep Coming Back – Leo Austell, Leo Graham
  11. Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer

An LP version of the album included a bonus 12″ vinyl limited edition containing 4 tracks recorded for a radio session (Goodier Session, BBC Radio 1):

  1. Rot – Marcy Mays, Sue Harshe, Carolyn O’Leary
  2. Fountain and Fairfax
  3. Keep Coming Back – Leo Austell, Leo Graham
  4. Tonight

Julian Lage: Speak To Me

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On March 1, 2024, “Blue Note” label released “Speak to Me”, the 16th Julian Lage album. It was recorded in 2023, and was produced by Joe Henry.

Personnel:

  • Julian Lage – acoustic and electric guitar, arrangements
  • Kris Davis – piano
  • Patrick Warren – keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, zither, strings 
  • Levon Henry – tenor saxophone, clarinet, alto clarinet
  • Jorge Roeder – double bass, electric bass, vibraphone, arrangements
  • David King – drums
  • Mark Goodell – engineer, mixing
  • Samuel Wahl – engineer assistant
  • Jeff Powell – mastering
  • Kim Rosen – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Julian Lage.

  1. Hymnal
  2. Northern Shuffle
  3. Omission
  4. Serenade
  5. Myself Around You
  6. South Mountain
  7. Speak to Me
  8. Two and One
  9. Vanishing Point
  10. Tiburon
  11. As It Were
  12. 76
  13. Nothing Happens Here

Guided By Voices: Tremblers And Goggles By Rank

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On July 1, 2022, “Guided by Voices, Inc.” label released “Tremblers and Goggles by Rank”, the 36th Guided by Voices studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Magic Door” in Montclair, New Jersey, and was produced by Travis Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Robert Pollard – lead vocals, guitar, cover art, layout
  • Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals
  • Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kevin March – drums, backing vocals
  • Ray Ketchem – drums engineering
  • Jeff Powell – mastering
  • Jamal Ruhe – mastering
  • Vince Williams – artwork
  • Joe Patterson – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Pollard.

  1. Lizard on the Red Brick Wall
  2. Alex Bell
  3. Unproductive Funk
  4. Roosevelt’s Marching Band
  5. Goggles by Rank
  6. Cartoon Fashion (Bongo Lake)
  7. All Sick Again
  8. Bongo Lake
  9. Letter Man, Better Man
  10. Bring on the Fobs
  11. Boomerang
  12. . Focus on the Flock
  13. Puzzle Two
  14. Who Wants to Go Hunting

Don Bryant: You Make Me Feel

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On June 19, 2020, “Fat Possum” label released “You Make Me Feel”, the third Don Bryant studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Reliable Recorders” in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Scott Bomar.

Personnel:

  •  Don Bryant – vocals
  • Scott Bomar – guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, engineer
  • Joe Restivo – guitar
  • Al Gamble – keyboards
  • Charles Hodges – organ
  • Archie “Hubble” Turner – keyboards
  • Howard Grimes – drums, percussion
  • Adam Hill – percussion, engineer
  • Art Edmaiston – saxophone
  • Kirk Smothers – saxophone
  • Marc Franklin – trumpet, strings, arrangements
  • Jennifer Puckett, Jessie Munson, Jonathan Kirkscey, Jordan Musgrave, Wen-Yih Yu – strings
  • Alex Hall – backing vocals, recording
  • Casey McDonough, Chris Barnes, Corey ‘2E’ Williams II, Courtney Barnes, J. Vito, Katrina Anderson, Kelly Hogan, Nora O’Connor, Reba Russell, Scott Ligon, The Flat Five, The Hamiltones, Tony Lelo – backing vocals
  • Matt Ross Spang – mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Jeff Powell – lacquer cut
  • Kerri Mahoney – artwork
  • Lawrence Matthews III – front and back cover photography
  • Jacob Blickenstaff – inner photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Don Bryant.

  1. Your Love Is to Blame
  2. 99 Pounds
  3. Is It Over
  4. I Die a Little Every Day
  5. Don’t Turn Your Back on Me
  6. Your Love Is Too Late
  7. I’ll Go Crazy – James Cross, Johnnie Frierson, Mary Frierson
  8. Cracked Up Over You
  9. A Woman’s Touch
  10. Walk All Over God’s Heaven

Steve Earle And The Dukes: Ghost Of West Virginia

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On May 22, 2020, “New West Records” label released “Ghosts of West Virginia”, album by Steve Earle and the Dukes (the twentieth Steve Earle album overall). It was recorded in 2020, at “Electric Lady Studios” in New York City.

Personnel:

  • Steve Earle – vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, liner notes
  • Erik Jensen – vocal
  • Chris Masterson – vocals, guitar
  • Ricky Ray Jackson – vocals, pedal steel guitar, dobro
  • Jeff Hill – vocals, acoustic and electric bass
  • Eleanor Whitmore – vocals, fiddle, arrangements
  • Brad Pemberton – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Ray Kennedy – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Carl Bespolka – recording assistant
  • Jeff Powell – mastering, lacquer cut
  • Tony Fitzpatrick – cover art, artwork
  • Tom Bejgrowicz – package design, layout
  • Man Alive Creative – package design, layout
  • Matt Etgen – cover assistant
  • Jacob Blickenstaff – photography
  • Kim Buie – A&R
  • Laurence Kern – guitar technician

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Earle.

  1. Heaven Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
  2. Union, God and Country
  3. Devil Put the Coal in the Ground
  4. John Henry Was a Steel Drivin’ Man
  5. Time is Never on Our Side
  6. It’s About Blood
  7. If I Could See Your Face Again
  8. Black Lung
  9. Fastest Man Alive
  10. The Mine

Guided By Voices: Crystal Nuns Cathedral

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On March 4, 2022, “Guided by Voices, Inc.” label released “Crystal Nuns Cathedral”, the 35th Guided by Voices studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Travis Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Robert Pollard – lead vocals, guitar, artwork, layout
  • Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals
  • Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals, strings arrangements
  • Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kevin March – drums, backing vocals
  • Ray Ketchem – drums engineering
  • Travis Harrison – mixing
  • Jeff Powell – mastering (for vinyl) 
  • Jamal Ruhe – mastering
  • J. Colangelo – drums technician
  • Joe Patterson – layout, back cover treatment, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Pollard.

  1. Eye City
  2. Re-Develop
  3. Climbing a Ramp
  4. Never Mind the List
  5. Birds in the Pipe
  6. Come North Together
  7. Forced to Sea
  8. Huddled
  9. Excited Ones
  10. The Eyes of Your Doctor
  11. Mad River Man
  12. Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Sky Is Crying

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On November 5, 1991, “Epic” label released “The Sky Is Crying”, the fifth and final Stevie Ray Vaughan studio album. It was recorded January 1984 – May 1989, at “Kiva Studios” in Memphis, Tennessee, “The Dallas Sound Lab” in Dallas, Texas, “The Power Station” in New York City, “Sound Castle Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jimmie Vaughan, Jim Gaines, Richard Mullen, Reese Wynans, Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton, Jim Capfer, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Personnel:

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan – vocals, guitars
  • Reese Wynans – keyboards
  • Tommy Shannon – bass guitar
  • Chris Layton – drums
  • Jim Gaines – engineer
  • Robe Eaton – engineer
  • Richard Mullen – engineer, mixing
  • Evan Rush – assistant engineer
  • Jeff Powell – assistant engineer
  • Ron Cote – assistant engineer
  • Danny Jones – assistant engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Arnold Levine – art direction
  • Mark Burdett – art direction
  • William Snyder – photography
  • Stephanie Chernakowski – inside photography
  • Alan Messer – band photography
  • Mark Proct – production coordinator
  • Mark Rutledge – production coordinator
  • Roger Klein – production coordinator

Track listing:

  1. Boot Hill – unknown author
  2. The Sky Is Crying – Elmore James, Morris Levy, Clarence Lewis
  3. Empty Arms – Stevie Ray Vaughan
  4. Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
  5. Wham – Lonnie Mack
  6. May I Have a Talk with You – Chester Burnette (Howlin’ Wolf)
  7. Close to You – Willie Dixon
  8. Chitlins con Carne – Kenny Burrell
  9. So Excited – Stevie Ray Vaughan
  10. Life by the Drop – Doyle Bramhall, Barbara Logan

Afghan Whigs: Black Love

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On Mach 12, 1996, “Elektra” label released “Black Love”, the fifth Afghan Whigs studio album. It was recorded August – September 1995, at “Bear Creek Studio” and “Robert Lang Studios” in Washington, and was produced by Greg Dulli.

Personnel:

  • Greg Dulli – lead vocals, guitars, drums, machine, percussion, timpani, sleigh bells, mixing
  • Rick McCollum – guitars, pedal steel, hammered dulcimer
  • John Curley – vocals, guitar, bass, Arp, assistant engineering, location recording
  • Paul Buchignani – drums, percussion, congas
  • Harold Chichester – vocals, organ, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, piano
  • Doug Falsetti – vocals, percussion
  • Shawn Smith – vocals
  • Jeff Powell – vocals, engineer, mixing
  • Jeffrey Reed – effects
  • Barbara Hunter – cello
  • Jeffrey Reed, Ryan Hadlock, Aaron Warner, Joe Hadlock, Don Fawcett, Erik Flettrich, Dubby – engineer assistant
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Jeff Kleinsmith – art direction
  • Danny Clinch – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Greg Dulli except where noted.

  1. Crime Scene Part One
  2. My Enemy 
  3. Double Day – Greg Dulli, Rick McCollum
  4. Blame, Etc.
  5. Step into the Light
  6. Going to Town
  7. Honky’s Ladder
  8. Night by Candlelight
  9. Bulletproof
  10. Summer’s Kiss
  11. Faded

Guided By Voices: Surrender Your Poppy Field

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On February 20, 2020, “Guided By Voices Inc.” label released “Surrender Your Poppy Field”, the 30th Guided By Voices album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Serious Business Music” and “Magic Door”, and was produced by Travis Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Bobby Bare Jr. – vocals, guitar
  • Robert Pollard – vocals, guitar, art direction, layout
  • Doug Gillard – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, percussion, melodica, arranger
  • Mark Shue – bass
  • Kevin March – drums
  • Abby Shue – vocal
  • Travis Harrison – recording
  • Ray Ketchem – additional recording
  • Jamal Ruhe – mastering
  • Jeff Powell – mastering
  • Joe Patterson – art direction, layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Pollard.

  1. Year of the Hard Hitter
  2. Volcano
  3. Queen Parking Lot
  4. Arthur Has Business Elsewhere
  5. Cul De Sac Kids
  6. Cat Beats a Drum
  7. Windjammer
  8. Steely Dodger
  9. Stone Cold Moron
  10. Physician
  11. Man Called Blunder
  12. Woah Nelly
  13. Andre the hawk
  14. Always Gone
  15. Next Sea Level