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Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble: Texas Flood

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Texas Flood

On June 13, 1983, “Epic” label released “Texas Flood”, the debut Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble album. It was recorded in November 1982, at “Down Town Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton and Richard Mullen. “Texas Flood” was certified 2 x Platinum in the US by the “RIIA”, and Platinum in Canada by “Music Canada”.

Personnel:

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan – vocals, guitar
  • Tommy Shannon– bass
  • Chris Layton– drums
  • Richard Mullen, James Geddes, Lincoln Clapp – engineer
  • Lincoln Clapp, Don Wershba, Harry Spiridakis – mixing
  • Ken Robertson – mastering
  • Brad Holland – cover art
  • John Berg, Allen Weinberg – art direction
  • Don Hunstein – tray card photography
  • John H. Hammond – executive producer
  • Mikie Harris – production assistant

Track listing:

  1. Love Struck Baby – Stevie Ray Vaughan
  2. Pride and Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughan
  3. Texas Flood – Larry Davis, Joseph Wade Scott
  4. Tell Me – Howlin’ Wolf
  5. Testify – Ronald Isley,O’Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley
  6. Rude Mood – Stevie Ray Vaughan
  7. Mary Had a Little Lamb – Buddy Guy
  8. Dirty Pool – Doyle Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan
  9. I’m Cryin’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan
  10. Lenny – Stevie Ray Vaughan

Chicago: VII

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On March 11, 1974, “Columbia” label released “Chicago VII”, the sixth Chicago studio album. It was recorded August – December 1973, at  “Caribou Ranch” in Nederland, and was produced by James William Guercio.

Personnel:

  • Peter Cetera – lead and backing vocals, bass, guitar
  • Terry Kath – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, bells,
  • Robert Lamm – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, keyboards, Fender Rhodes,  clavinet, Mellotron, ARP synthesizer, Mini Moog
  • Danny Seraphine– drums, percussion, hi-hat, bass drum
  • Lee Loughnane– trumpet, flugelhorn, lead and  backing vocals
  • James Pankow– trombone, percussion, timbales, backing vocals
  • Walter Parazaider– flute , soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • James Pankow, Robert Lamm – brass arrangements
  • Laudir de Oliveira– percussion, congas
  • David Wolinski– ARP synthesizer, acoustic piano, Mellotron and Fender Rhodes
  • James William Guercio– acoustic guitar, bass, guitar
  • Jimmie Haskell– strings
  • Wayne Tarnowski – acoustic piano
  • Guille Garcia – congas, percussion
  • Bobbi Roen, Camelia Ortiz, Diane Nini, Hank Steiger, Julie Nini – background party noises
  • Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, The Pointer Sisters– backing vocals
  • Ross Salomone – drums
  • John Berg and Nick Fasciano – cover photography
  • Urve Kuusik – photography

 Track listing:

  1. Prelude to Aire – Danny Seraphine
  2. Aire – Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow
  3. Devil’s Sweet – Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider
  4. Italian from New York – Robert Lamm
  5. Hanky Panky – Robert Lamm
  6. Life Saver – Robert Lamm
  7. Happy Man – Peter Cetera
  8. (I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long – James Pankow
  9. Mongonucleosis – James Pankow
  10. Songs of the Evergreens – Terry Kath
  11. Byblos – Terry Kath
  12. Wishing You Were Here – Peter Cetera
  13. Call on Me – Lee Loughnane
  14. Woman Don’t Want to Love Me – Robert Lamm
  15. Skinny Boy – Robert Lamm

 

John Cale and Terry Riley: Church of Anthrax

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John Cale - Church Of Anthrax

On February 10, 1971, “Columbia” label released “Church of Anthrax” collaborative studio album by John Cale and Terry Riley. It was recorded in 1970, and was produced by John Cale and Terry Riley.

Personnel:

  • John Cale– keyboards, bass guitar, harpsichord, piano, guitar, viola, organ
  • Terry Riley– piano, organ, soprano saxophone
  • Adam Miller – vocals
  • Bobby Colomby– drums
  • Bobby Gregg– drums
  • Kim Whitesides – cover art
  • John Berg – design
  • Richard Mantel – design
  • Don Huntstein – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by John Cale and Terry Riley, except where noted.

  1. Church of Anthrax
  2. The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles
  3. The Soul of Patrick Lee – John Cale
  4. Ides of March
  5. The Protégé

Chicago: Chicago II

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Chicago Album

On January 26, 1979, “Columbia” label released “Chicago”, known as  “Chicago II”, the second Chicago studio album.  It was recorded in 1969, at the “Columbia Recording Studios” in New York and Hollywood, and was produced by James William Guercio.

Personnel:

  • Peter Cetera – lead and backing vocals, bass
  • Terry Kath– lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Robert Lamm– lead and backing vocals, piano, Hammond organ, Hohner Pianet
  • Lee Loughnane– trumpet, flugelhorn, backing vocals
  • James Pankow– trombone, brass arrangements
  • Walter Parazaider– saxophones, flute, clarinet, backing vocals
  • Danny Seraphine– drums, percussion
  • Peter Matz– orchestrations, co-arrangements
  • Nick Fasciano – cover art
  • John Berg – design
  • Herb Greene – photography

Track listing:

  1. Movin’ In – James Pankow
  2. The Road – Terry Kath
  3. Poem for the People – Robert Lamm
  4. In the Country – Terry Kath
  5. Wake Up Sunshine – Robert Lamm
  6. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon
  • Make Me Smile
  • So Much to Say, So Much to Give
  • Anxiety’s Moment
  • West Virginia Fantasies
  • Colour My World
  • To Be Free
  • Now More Than Ever

Chicago: Chicago III

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ChicagoIII

On January 11, 1970., “Columbia” label released “Chicago III”, the third Chicago studio album. It was recorded June to December 1970, at the “Columbia 30th Street Studios” in New York, and was produced by James William Guercio.

Personnel:

  • Peter Cetera – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Terry Kath – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Robert Lamm – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ, Hohner Pianet, tack piano, vibraphone, celesta
  • Lee Loughnane– trumpet
  • James Pankow– trombone, brass arrangements
  • Walter Parazaider– saxophones, flute
  • Danny Seraphine– drums, percussion, timbales
  • Nick Fasciano – logo design
  • John Berg – album design
  • Sandy Speiser – photography
  • Annette Kawecki, Melanie Marder – lettering

Track listing:

  1. Sing a Mean Tune Kid – Robert Lamm
  2. Loneliness Is Just a Word – Robert Lamm
  3. What Else Can I Say – Peter Cetera
  4. I Don’t Want Your Money – Terry Kath, Robert Lamm
  5. Travel Suite – Robert Lamm, Danny Seraphine, Terry Kath, Walter Parazaider
  6. Mother – Robert Lamm
  7. Lowdown – Peter cetera, Danny Seraphine
  8. An Hour in the Shower – Terry Kath
  9. Elegy – James Pankow, James William Guercio, Kendrew Lascelles

Bruce Springsteen: Greetings From Ashbury Park NJ

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Greetings_from_Asbury_Park_NJ

On January 5, 1973, “Columbia” label released “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.”, the debut Bruce Springsteen studio album. It was recorded July – September 1972, at “914 Sound Studios” in New York, and was produced by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos. Magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked the album on number 379 on its list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Bruce Springsteen– lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, handclaps
  • David Sancious– piano, organ, keyboards
  • Harold Wheeler– piano
  • Garry Tallent– bass guitar
  • Richard Davis– upright double bass
  • Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez– drums, handclaps, backing vocals
  • Clarence Clemons– saxophone, handclaps, backing vocals
  • Steven Van Zandt– sound effects
  • John Berg – design
  • Fred Lombardi – back cover design

Track listing:

All tracks by Bruce Springsteen.

  1. Blinded by the Light
  2. Growin Up
  3. Mary Queen of Arkansas
  4. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street
  5. Lost in the Flood
  6. The Angel
  7. For You
  8. Spirit in the Night
  9. It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding

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On December 27, 1967, “Columbia” label released “John Wesley Harding”, the eighth Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded October – November 1967, and was produced by Bob Johnston. In 2003, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked “John Wesley Harding” at number 301 at its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of all Time”.

Personnel:

  • Bob Dylan– vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboards
  • Pete Drake– pedal steel guitar
  • Charlie McCoy– bass guitar
  • Kenneth Buttrey – drums
  • John Berg – cover photography

Track listing

All tracks by Bob Dylan.

  1. John Wesley Harding
  2. As I Went Out One Morning
  3. I dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
  4. All Along the Watchtower
  5. The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
  6. Drifter’s Escape
  7. Dear Landlord
  8. I am a Lonesome Hobo
  9. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
  10. The Wicked Messenger
  11. Down Along the Cove
  12. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Blood, Sweat & Tears: Same

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On December 11, 1968, “Columbia” label released self titled, second Blood, Sweet & Tears album. It was recorded October 1968, at “CBS Studios” in New York,  and was produced by James William Guercio. The album was certified 4 x Platinum in the US by the RIAA. The album received “Grammy Award” for “Album of the Year” in 1970.

Personnel:

  • David Clayton-Thomas– lead vocals
  • Steve Katz– lead and backing vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Dick Halligan– organ, piano, flute, trombone, vocals
  • Jim Fielder– bass
  • Bobby Colomby– vocals, drums, percussion
  • Lew Soloff– trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Fred Lipsius– alto saxophone, piano
  • Chuck Winfield– trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Jerry Hyman– trombone, recorder
  • Dick Halligan, Fred Lipsius, Al Kooper – arrangements
  • Timothy Quay, Bob Cato – cover art
  • John Berg – design
  • Harrie George – photography

Track listing:

  1. Variations on a theme by Erik Satie (1st and 2nd Movements)
  2. Adapted from “Trois Gymnopédies”; arr. by Dick Halligan
  3. Smiling Phases –  Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood
  4. Sometimes in Winter – Steve Katz
  5. More and More – Vee Pee Smith, Don Juan
  6. And When I Die – Laura Nyro
  7. God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.
  8. Spinning Wheel -David Clayton-Thomas
  9. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy – Berry Gordy Jr., Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson
  10. Blues – Part II – Blood, Sweat & Tears
  11. Interpolating Sunshine of Your Love (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown,  Eric Clapton), Spoonful – Willie Dixon, Somethin’ Goin’ On – Al Kooper
  12. Variations on a theme by Erik Satie” (1st Movement)

 

Sly And The Family Stone: There’s A Riot Goin’ On

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Theres a riot

On November 20.1971, “Epic” label released “There’s a Riot Goin’ On”, the fifth Sly and the Family Stone” studio album. It was recorded in 1970 and 1971, at the”Record Plant Studios” in Sausalito, California, and was produced by Sly Stone. In 2003, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” was ranked number 99 on “Rolling Stone” magazine’s list of the “500 greatest albums of all time”. The album was certified Platinum in the US by “RIIA”.

Personnel:

  • Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, drum programming, keyboard programming, arrangements
  • Bobby Womack– guitar
  • Freddie Stone– guitar
  • Ike Turner– guitar
  • Rose Stone– vocals, keyboards
  • Billy Preston– keyboards
  • Larry Graham– bass, backing vocals
  • Greg Errico– drums
  • Gerry Gibson – drums
  • Jerry Martini– tenor saxophone
  • Cynthia Robinson– trumpet
  • Little Sister– backing vocals
  • Chris Hinshaw, Jack Ashkinazy, James Conniff, James Greene, Robert Gratts, Willie Greer, Rich Tilles – engineer
  • Lynn Ames, John Berg – artwork concept

All tracks  by Sylvester Stewart.

  1. Luv n’ Haight
  2. Just Like a Baby
  3. Poet
  4. Family Affair
  5. Africa Talks to You ‘The Asphalt Jungle’
  6. There’s a Riot Goin’ On
  7. Brave & Strong
  8. (You Caught Me) Smilin
  9. Time
  10. Spaced Cowboy
  11. Runnin’ Away
  12. Thank You for Talkin’ to Me Africa