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Phideaux Xavier: The Great Leap

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On September 18, 2006, “Bloodfish Music” label released “The Great Leap”, the sixth Phideaux Xavier album. It was recorded in 2006, at “Firehouse Recording Studios” in Pasadena, “Phideaux’s Lair, & Treehouse Mixing”, and was produced by Gabriel Moffat.

Personnel:

  • Gabriel Moffat – electric guitar, arrangements, mixing
  • Arlan Shierbaum – Hammond organ, piano, electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer
  • Rich Hutchins – drums, percussion
  • Jo Pusateri – snare
  • Hiker Frostbelt – flute, zurna, recorder
  • Probyn Gregory – theremin, trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn, trombone
  • Ariel Farber – vocals, violin
  • Linda Ruttan-Moldawsky, Molly Ruttan, Valerie Gracious – vocals
  • Stefanie Fife – cello
  • Probyn Gregory – arrangement
  • Ed Woolley, Milton G. Ruezga –second engineer
  • Molly Ruttan – painting, design, artwork

Track listing:

  1. Wake Up
  2. You and Me Against a World of Pain
  3. The Waiting
  4. Abducted
  5. Rainboy
  6. I Was Thinking
  7. Long and Lonely Way
  8. They Hunt You Down
  9. Tannis Root
  10. One Star
  11. Last

Joan Baez: Blessed Are…

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In July 1971, “Vanguard” label released “Blessed Are…”, the thirteen Joan Baez studio album. It was recorded in 1971, at “Quadrafonic Sound Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Norbert Putnam and Jack Lothrop

Personnel:

  • Joan Baez – guitar, vocals
  • Pete Wade – guitar
  • Norman Blake – guitar, dobro
  • David Briggs– keyboards
  • Charlie McCoy– harmonica
  • Norbert Putnam– bass, arrangements
  • Kenneth A. Buttrey –drums
  • The Holladay – singers
  • Ed Logan – tenor saxophone
  • Buddy Spicher– violin
  • Gene Eichelberger – engineer
  • Dave Harris – artwork
  • Jobriath– design
  • Jim Marshall– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Joan Baez, except where noted.

  1. Blessed Are…
  2. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Robbie Robertson
  3. Salt of the Earth – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
  4. Three Horses
  5. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz – Jesse Winchester
  6. Last, Lonely and Wretched
  7. Lincoln Freed Me Today (The Slave) – David Paton
  8. Outside the Nashville City Limits
  9. San Francisco Mabel Joy – Mickey Newbury
  10. When Time Is Stolen
  11. Heaven Help Us All – Ronald Miller
  12. Angeline – Mickey Newbury
  13. Help Me Make It Through the Night – Kris Kristofferson
  14. Let It Be – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  15. Put Your Hand in the Hand – Gene MacLellan
  16. Gabriel and Me
  17. Milanese Waltz/Marie Flore
  18. The Hitchhikers’ Song
  19. The 33rd of August – Mickey Newbury
  20. Fifteen Months