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Dwight Yoakam: This Time

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On March 23, 1993, “Reprise” label released “This Time”, the fifth Dwight Yoakam studio album. It was recorded in 1992, at “Capitol Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Pete Anderson.

Personnel:

  • Dwight Yoakam – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Pete Anderson – electric guitar
  • Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
  • Al Perkins – dobro, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Skip Edwards – keyboards
  • Chuck Domanico – upright bass
  • Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
  • Jeff Donavan – drums
  • Scott Joss – fiddle
  • Don Reed – fiddle
  • Beth Andersen – backing vocals
  • Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
  • Carl Jackson – backing vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale – backing vocals
  • Jim Haas – backing vocals
  • Scott Humphrey – programming
  • Paul Buckmaster – strings arrangements, conductor
  • Suzy Katayama – contractor

Track listing:

All tracks by Dwight Yoakam, except where noted.

  1. Pocket of a Clown
  2. A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
  3. Home for Sale
  4. This Time – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
  5. Two Doors Down – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
  6. Ain’t That Lonely Yet – Kostas Lazarides, James House
  7. King of Fools – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
  8. Fast as You
  9. Try Not to Look So Pretty – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
  10. Wild Ride
  11. Lonesome Roads

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

Buddy Miller: Midnight And Lonesome

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On October 15, 2002, “Hightone” label released “Midnight and Lonesome”, the fourth Buddy Miller album. It was recorded in 2002, and was produced by Buddy Miller.

Personnel:

  • Buddy Miller – vocals, guitar, harmonica, harmonium, synthesizer
  • Larry Campbell – steel guitar, violin
  • Al Perkins – steel guitar
  • Phil Madeira – Hammond organ, melodica
  • Fats Kaplan – accordion
  • Byron House – bass
  • Rick Plant – bass
  • Brady Blade – drums
  • Bryan Owings – drums
  • Tammy Rogers – violin
  • Emmylou Harris – backing vocals
  • Julie Miller – backing vocals
  • Lee Ann Womack – backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. The Price of Love – Don & Phil Everly
  2. Wild Card – Buddy Miller, Julie Miller
  3. I Can’t Get Over You – Julie Miller
  4. Midnight and Lonesome – Julie Miller
  5. When It Comes to You – Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Julie Miller
  6. Water When the Well Is Dry – Bill Mallonee, Buddy Miller
  7. A Showman’s Life – Jesse Winchester
  8. Little Bitty Kiss – Buddy Miller, Julie Miller
  9. Please Send Me Someone to Love – Percy Mayfield
  10. Oh Fait Pitie D’Amour – Julie Miller
  11. Quecreek – Julie Miller

Lucinda Williams: Little Honey

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On October 14, 2008, “Lost Highway” label released “Little Honey”, the ninth Lucinda Williams studio album. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by Eric Leljestrand and Tom Overby.

Personnel:

  • Lucinda Williams – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Elvis Costello – vocals
  • Chet Lyster – acoustic and electric guitars, saw and table steel
  • Doug Pettibone – acoustic and electric guitars, pedal steel
  • Rob Burger – Wurlitzer, vibraphone, piano, Hammond organ
  • David Sutton – electric bass, double bass, cello
  • Butch Norton – drums, percussion
  • Albert Wing – tenor saxophone
  • Bruce Fowler – trombone
  • Walt Fowler – flugelhorn
  • Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs – backing vocals
  • Charlie Louvin, Jim Lauderdale – backing vocals
  • Susan Marshall, Gia Ciambotti, Kristen Mooney – backing vocals
  • Kristen Mooney, Tim Easton, Susan Marshall – backing vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale, Susan Marshall, Gia Ciambotti, Kristen Mooney – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Lucinda Williams, except where noted.

  1. Real Love
  2. Circles and X’s
  3. Tears of Joy
  4. Little Rock Star
  5. Honey Bee
  6. Well Well Well
  7. If Wishes Were Horses
  8. Jailhouse Tears
  9. Knowing
  10. Heaven Blues
  11. Rarity
  12. Plan to Marry
  13. It’s a Long Way to the Top – Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott

Dwight Yoakam: Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room

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On August 2, 1988, “Reprise” label released “Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room”, the third Dwight Yoakam studio album. It was recorded in 1988, at “Capitol” in Hollywood, and was produced by Pete Anderson.

Personnel:

  • Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Pete Anderson – acoustic and electric guitar, six-string bass guitar, mandolin, percussion, backing vocals
  • Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
  • Scott Joss – mandolin
  • Skip Edwards – piano
  • Flaco Jiménez – accordion
  • Al Perkins – dobro
  • Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
  • Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar, percussion
  • Jeff Donavan – drums
  • Don Reed – fiddle
  • Buck Owens – duet vocals
  • Maria McKee – backing vocals
  • The Lonesome Strangers (Jeff Rymes and Randy Weeks) – backing vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale – backing vocals
  • Brantley Kearns – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Dwight Yoakam, except where noted.

  1. I Got You
  2. One More Name
  3. What I Don’t Know
  4. Home of the Blues – Johnny Cash, Glenn Douglas, Little McAlpine
  5. Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
  6. I Hear You Knockin’ – J. D. Miller
  7. I Sang Dixie
  8. Streets of Bakersfield – Homer Joy
  9. Floyd County
  10. Send Me the Pillow – Hank Locklin
  11. Hold On to God

Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

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On June 30, 1998, “Mercury” label released “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”, the fifth Lucinda Williams studio album. It was recorded in 1997, at “Room and Board Studio” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Rumbo Studio” in Canoga Park, California, and was produced by Roy Bittan, Steve Earle, Ray Kennedy and Lucinda Williams. “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road: won a “Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album”, and was voted “The Best album of 1998” in The Village Voice’s annual “Pazz & Jop” critics poll.

Personnel:

  • Lucinda Williams – vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro guitar
  • Gurf Morlix – electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, electric slide guitar, acoustic slide guitar, harmony vocal
  • Buddy Miller – acoustic guitar, mando guitar, electric guitar, harmony vocal
  • Ray Kennedy – 12 string electric guitar
  • Greg Leisz – 12 string electric guitar, mandolin
  • Charlie Sexton – electric guitar, dobro guitar
  • Steve Earle – acoustic guitar, harmonica, resonator guitar, harmony vocal
  • Johnny Lee Schell – electric guitar, electric slide guitar, dobro guitar
  • Bo Ramsey – electric guitar, slide guitar
  • Richard “Hombre” Price – dobro guitar
  • Roy Bittan – Hammond B3 organ, accordion, organ
  • Micheal Smotherman – B-3 organ
  • John Ciambotti – bass guitar, upright bass
  • Donald Lindley – drums, percussion
  • Jim Lauderdale – harmony vocal
  • Emmylou Harris – harmony vocal

Track listing:

All tracks by Lucinda Williams except where noted.

  1. Right in Time
  2. Car Wheels on a Grave Road
  3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
  4. Drunken Angel
  5. Concrete and Barbed Wine
  6. Lake Charles
  7. Can’t Let Go – Randy Weeks
  8. I Lost It
  9. Metal Firecrackers
  10. Greenville
  11. Still Looking for Your Kiss – Lucinda Williams, Duane Jarvis
  12. Joy
  13. Jackson

Robert Hunter

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On September 23, 2019, Robert C. Hunter died aged 78. He was lyricist, singer-songwriter, musician (guitar, mandolin), translator and poet. He has cooperated with various artists, such as  Bob Dylan, Little Feat, Jim Lauderdale, Elvis Costello, Cesar Rosas, Bruce Hornsby and New Riders of the Purple Sage , but was best known by his work with Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead. In 2013, Hunter received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the “Americana Music Association”. Hunter  has released 14 solo albums.

Elvis Costello: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane

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Secret Profane

On June 9, 2009, “Hear Music” label released “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane”, the 22nd Elvis Costello album. It was recorded in 2009, in Nashville, and was produced T Bone Burnett.

Personnel:

  • Elvis Costello – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • T-Bone Burnett– electric guitar
  • Mike Compton– mandolin
  • Jerry Douglas– dobro
  • Stuart Duncan– banjo, fiddle
  • Jeff Taylor – accordion
  • Dennis Crouch – double bass
  • Emmylou Harris– harmony vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale– harmony vocals
  • Tony Millionaire – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Down Among the Wines and Spirits – Elvis Costello
  2. Complicated Shadows – Elvis Costello
  3. I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came – Elvis Costello, Loretta Lynn
  4. My All Time Doll – Elvis Costello
  5. Hidden Shame – Elvis Costello
  6. She handed Me a Mirror – Elvis Costello
  7. I Dreamed Of My Old Lover – Elvis Costello
  8. How Deep is the Red – Elvis Costello
  9. She Was No Good – Elvis Costello
  10. Sulphur to Sugarcane – Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett
  11. Red Cotton – Elvis Costello
  12. The Crooked Line – Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett
  13. Changing Partners – Larry Coleman, Joe Darion