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Johnny Cash: Rockabilly Blues

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On October 22, 1980, “Columbia” label released “Rockabilly Blues”, the 42nd Johnny Cash album. It was recorded in 1980, at “Quadrafonic Sound” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Earl Poole Ball, Jack Clement and Nick Lowe.

Personnel:

  • Johnny Cash – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Bob Wootton, Pete Wade, Cliff Parker – electric guitar
  • Martin Belmont, Jerry Hensley, Jack Routh, Marty Stuart, Eddy Shaver – guitar
  • Jack Clement – dobro, acoustic guitar, producer
  • Dave Kirby – acoustic guitar, guitar
  • Jerry Hensley – electric, acoustic and rhythm guitar, dobro, harmony vocals
  • Billy Joe Shaver – guitar, gut-string guitar
  • Philip Donnelly – guitar
  • Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar, banjo
  • Dave Edmunds – guitar, engineer
  • Earl Poole Ball – acoustic and electric piano
  • Shane Keister – Moog synthesizer, Prophet 5 synthesizer
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
  • Floyd Chance – upright bass
  • Daniel Sarenana, John Willis – brass
  • Joe Allen, Joe Osborn – electric bass
  • Nick Lowe – electric bass
  • W.S. Holland, Jerry Carrigan, Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone, Pete Thomas – drums
  • Don Sheffield, George Cunningham – trumpet
  • Irv Kane, Rex Peer – trombone
  • June Carter Cash – additional vocals
  • Charles Cochran – horn arrangement
  • Gene Eichelberger – engineer
  • Curt Allen – engineer
  • Dave Edmunds – engineer
  • Willie Pevear, Barbara Cline – engineer assistant
  • Leonard Kamsler – front cover photography
  • Kajetan Koci – project coordinator

Track listing:

  1. Cold Lonesome Morning – J. R. Cash
  2. Without Love – Nick Lowe
  3. W-O-M-A-N – J.R. Cash
  4. The Cowboy Who Started the Fight – Billy Joe Shaver
  5. The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over – Steve Goodman, John Prine
  6. Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955) – J.R. Cash
  7. The Last Time – Kris Kristofferson
  8. She’s a Go-er – J.R. Cash
  9. It Ain’t Nothing New Babe – Billy Joe Shaver
  10. One Way Rider – Rodney Crowell

Van Zant: My Kind Of Country

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On October 9, 2007, “Columbia” label released “My Kind of Country”, the fifth and final Van Zant studio album. It was recorded in 2007, and was produced by Justin Niebank and Mark Wright.

Personnel:

  • Donnie Van Zant – lead and backing vocals
  • Johnny Van Zant – lead and backing vocals
  • John Willis – acoustic guitar
  • Pat Buchanan – electric guitar, harmonica
  • Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
  • Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
  • Matt Hauer – electric guitar
  • Marc Miller – pedal steel guitar
  • Russ Pahl – banjo, dobro, pedal steel guitar
  • Bobby Capps – keyboards
  • Garry Hensley – bass guitar
  • Erik Lundgren – bass guitar
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
  • Noah Hungerford – drums
  • Greg Morrow – drums, percussion
  • Eric Darken – percussion
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle
  • Larry Franklin – fiddle
  • Robert Bailey – backing vocals
  • Perry Coleman – backing vocals
  • Kim Fleming – backing vocals
  • Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
  • Crystal Taliefero – backing vocals
  • Russell Terrell – backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. Train – Tony Mullins, Donnie Van Zant, Johnny Van Zant, Craig Wiseman
  2. These Colors Don’t Run – Tony Mullins, Donnie Vam Zant, Johnny Van Zant
  3. Goes Down Easy – Tom Hambridge, David Lee Murphy, Gary Nicholson
  4. That Scares Me – Ashley Gorley, Rivers Rutherford, George Teren
  5. My Kind of Country – Blair Daly, Tom Hambridge, Donnie Van Zant, Johnny Van Zant
  6. The Hardest Thing – Daryl Burgess, Thom McHugh
  7. It’s Only Money – David Lee Murphy, Anthony Smith
  8. We Can’t Do It Alone – Brett James, Donnie Van Zant, Johnny Van Zant
  9. Friend – Tom Hambridge, Jeffrey Steele
  10. It’s All About You – Bob DiPiero, Donnie Van Zant, Johnny Van Zant
  11. Headed South – Donnie Van Zant, Johnny Van Zant, Brad Warren, Brett Warren

Shania Twain: Up!

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On November 19, 2002, “Mercury Nashville” label released “Up!”, the fourth Shania Twain studio album. It was recorded in 2002, and was produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange and Simon & Diamond Duggal. In 2005, the album was certified 11 x Platinum by “RIAA” in US.

Personnel:

  • Shania Twain – lead and backing vocals
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar
  • Michael Thompson – electric guitar, slide guitar
  • John Willis – banjo, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, mandolin
  • Diamond Duggal – bouzouki, coral sitar, bass guitar, synthesizer guitar, keyboards, mandolin, percussion
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
  • Cory Churko – slide guitar
  • Sunil Das – sitar
  • Simon Duggal – bass guitar, darbouka, dholak, keyboards, percussion, tabla, drum programming
  • Paul Leim – drums
  • Rakesh Chaurasia – flute
  • Jonathan Yudkin – violin, cello, mandolin
  • Jatinder Thakur – violin
  • The Irish Film Orchestra – strings
  • Chintoo Singh – rabab
  • Sanjay Vyas – table
  • Robert John “Mutt” Lange – backing vocals
  • Mauro Pagini – backing vocals
  • Gavin Greenaway – string arrangements
  • Kevin Churko – programming

Track listing:

All tracks by Shania Twain and Robert John “Mutt” Lange.

  1. Up!
  2. I’m Gonna Getcha Good
  3. She’s Not Just a Pretty Face
  4. Juanita
  5. Forever and for Always
  6. Ain’t No Particular Way
  7. It Only Hurts When I’m Breathing
  8. Nah!
  9. (Wanna Get to Know You) That Good!
  10. C’est la vie
  11. I’m Jealous
  12. Ka-Ching
  13. Thank You Baby! (For Makin’ Someday Come So Soon)
  14. Waiter! Bring Me Water!
  15. What a Way to Wanna Be
  16. I Ain’t Goin’ Down
  17. I’m Not in the Mood (To Say No)!
  18. In My Car (I’ll Be the Driver)
  19. When You Kiss Me

Shania Twain: Same

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On April 20, 1993, “Polygram,” and “Mercury” label released the self-titled, debut Shania Twain studio album. It was recorded 1992 – 1993, and was produced by Harold Shedd and Norro Wilson.

Personnel:

  • Shania Twain – lead and backing vocals
  • Mark Casstevens, Allen Frank Estes, Chris Leuzinger, Billy Joe Walker Jr., John Willis – acoustic guitar
  • Steve Gibson, Billy Joe Walker Jr., Reggie Young – electric guitar
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
  • Costo Davis – synthesizer
  • David Briggs, Costo Davis, Gary Prim – keyboards
  • Terry McMillan, Kirk “Jelly Roll” Johnson – harmonica
  • Mike Brignardello, Glenn Worf – bass
  • Paul Leim, Larrie Londin – drums
  • Terry McMillan – percussion
  • Anthony Martin, John Wesley Ryles, Ronny Scaife, Cindy Richardson Walker, Dennis Wilson, Curtis Young – backing vocals
  • Jim Cotton, Todd Culross, Graeme Smith, Joe Scaife – engineer, mixing
  • Marty Williams – mastering

Track listing:

  1. What Made You Say That – Tony Haselden, Stan Munsey
  2. You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me – Hank Beach, Forest Borders II
  3. Dance with the One That Brought You – Sam Hogin, Gretchen Peters
  4. Still Under the Weather – Skip Ewing, L.E. White, Michael White
  5. Good Ain’t Gonna Getcha for That – Eillen Twain, Kent Robbins
  6. Got a Hold on Me – Rachel Newman
  7. There Goes the Neighborhood – Tommy Dodson, Bill C. Graham, Alan Laney
  8. Forget Me – Stephony Smith
  9. When He leaves You – Mike Reid, Kent Robbins
  10. Crime of the Century – Richard Fagan, Ralph Murphy