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The All American Rejects: Kids In The Street

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On March 26, 2012, “DGC” label released “Kids in the Street”, the fourth All-American Rejects (The) studio album. It was recorded April – June 2011, at “The Village Recorder” and “Rocket Carousel Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Greg Wells.

Personnel:

  • Tyson Ritter – vocals, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, gang vocals
  • Nick Wheeler – lead guitar, drum corp, additional percussion, programming, gang vocals
  • Mike Kennerty – rhythm guitar, gang vocals
  • Chris Gaylor – drums, drum corp, additional percussion, gang vocals
  • Greg Wells – piano, keyboards, programming
  • Kevin Saulnier – piano 
  • Willy Wells – bass, gang vocals
  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • Ron Blake – horns 
  • Francisco Torres – horns 
  • The Mac – gang vocals 
  • Julianne Lackey – gang vocals 
  • Nick Fishbaugh – gang vocals 
  • Sean Caragher – gang vocals 
  • Florida – gang vocals 
  • Jackie Petrie – gang vocals
  • Natalie Besharat – gang vocals 
  • Alex Kandel – additional vocals
  • Audra Mae – additional vocals
  • Alex Kandel – additional vocals
  • MIKA – additional vocals
  • Elizaveta – additional vocals
  • Zack Ritter – additional vocals
  • Joel McNeely – orchestra arrangements
  • Ian MacGregor – recording
  • Chris Owens – recording assistant
  • John Hanes – mixing
  • Greg Wells – mixing
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • Phil Seaford – mixing assistant
  • Jeremiah “Florida” Langdon – guitar tech
  • John Oreshnick – drum tech
  • Sean Caragher – monitor engineer
  • Jon Danovic – photography
  • Brennan Maxwell – photography
  • Jon Danovic – creative
  • Ianthe Zevos – creative
  • Mamelok Papercraft – mask design

Track listing:

All tracks by Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler.

  1. Someday’s Gone
  2. Beekeeper’s Daughter
  3. Fast and Slow
  4. Heartbeat Slowing Down
  5. Walk Over Me
  6. Out the Door
  7. Kids in the Street
  8. Bleed Into Your Mind
  9. Gonzo
  10. Affection
  11. I for You

Badfinger: Airwaves

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On March 25, 1979, “Elektra” label released “Airwaves”, the eighth Badfinger studio album. It was recorded October – December 1978, in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Malloy.

Personnel:

  • Tom Evans – lead and backing vocals, bass 
  • Joey Molland – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, electric piano
  • Joe Tansin – lead, co-lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, keyboards
  • Rick Salon – slide guitar 
  • Harry Pulver, Jr. – piano
  • Scott Greer – piano
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano, Hammond organ
  • Duane Hitchings – synthesizer, piano
  • Tom Lecher – bass
  • Ken Harck – drums, cardboard box, tom-toms 
  • Andy Newmark – drums
  • Steve Foreman – drums, percussion 
  • Bob Millea – drums
  • Peter Clark – “leg, hands and feet”
  • Barry Sperti – saxophone
  • David Malloy – backing vocals
  • Dean Ford – backing vocals
  • David Campbell – string arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Airwaves – Tom Evans, Joey Molland
  2. Look Out California – Tom Evans
  3. Lost Inside Your Love – Tom Evans
  4. Love Is Gonna Come at Last – Joey Molland
  5. Sympathy – Joe Tansin
  6. The Winner – Joe Tansin
  7. The Dreamer – Joey Molland
  8. Come Down Hard – Joey Molland
  9. Sail Away – Tom Evans

Nils Lofgren: Same

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In March 1975, “A&M” label released the self-titled, debut Nils Lofgren studio album. It was recorded 1974 – 1975, at “Sound City Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Briggs.

Personnel:

  • Nils Lofgren – vocals, guitars, piano
  • Wornell Jones – bass
  • Aynsley Dunbar – drums
  • Stu Gardner – backing vocals
  • David Briggs – engineer
  • Roland Young – art direction
  • Junie Osaki – design
  • Ed Caraeff – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Nils Lofgren, except where noted.

  1. Be Good Tonight
  2. Back It Up
  3. One More Saturday Night
  4. If I Say It, It’s So
  5. I Don’t Want to Know
  6. Keith Don’t Go (Ode to the Glimmer Twin)
  7. Can’t Buy a Break
  8. Duty
  9. The Sun Hasn’t Set on This Boy Yet
  10. Rock and Roll Crook
  11. Two by Two
  12. Goin’ Back – Gerry Goffin, Carole King

Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead

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On March 17, 1967, “Warner Bros” label released “The Grateful Dead”, the debut Grateful Dead studio album. It was recorded in January 1967, at “RCA Studio A” in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Hassinger.

Personnel:

  • Jerry “Captain Trips” Garcia – vocals, lead guitar, arrangements
  • Bob Weir – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Ron “Pigpen” McKernan – vocals, Vox Continental organ, harmonica
  • Phil Lesh – vocals, bass guitar
  • Bill The Drummer (Bill Kreutzmann) – drums, percussion
  • Dick Bogert – engineer
  • Betty Cantor – engineer
  • Bob Cassidy – engineer
  • Mouse Studios – design
  • Herb Greene – cover photography
  • Gene Anthony – liner photography

Track listing:

  1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) – McGannahan Skjellyfetti
  2. Beat It On Down the Line – Jessy Fuller
  3. Good Morning Little School Girl – Sonny Boy Williamson
  4. Cold Rain and Snow – Obray Chatmon
  5. Sitting on Top of the World – Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson
  6. Cream Puff War – Jerry Garcia
  7. Morning Dew – Bonnie Robson, Tim Rose
  8. New, New Minglewood Blues – Noah Lewis
  9. Viola Lee Blues – Noah Lewis

Stone Temple Pilots: Same

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On March 16, 2018, “Rhino” label released the self-titled, seventh Stone Temple Pilots album. It was recorded in 2017, at “HOMeFRY Studios” in Los Angeles, “Bomb Shelter Studios” in South Pasadena, California, and was produced by Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo.

Personnel:

  • Jeff Gutt – lead and backing vocals
  • Dean DeLeo – guitar
  • Robert DeLeo – bass, backing vocals
  • Eric Kretz – drums, percussion
  • Ryan Williams – recording, engineer
  • Russ Fowler – engineer
  • Ken Andrews – mixing
  • Dave Cooley – mastering
  • Hans Bruechle – cover art
  • Michelle Shiers – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jeff Gutt, Dean DeLeom Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz.

  1. Middle of Nowhere
  2. Guilty
  3. Meadow
  4. Just a Little Lie
  5. Six Eight
  6. Thought She’d Be Mine
  7. Roll Me Under
  8. Never Enough
  9. The Art of letting Go

The Fratellis: In Your Own Sweet Time

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On March 16, 2018, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “In Your Own Sweet Time”, the fifth Fratellis (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “The Hobby Shop Recording Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Tony Hoffer.

Personnel:

  • Jon Fratelli – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Barry Fratelli – bass
  • Mince Fratelli – drums, percussion
  • Stevie Black – strings, esraj
  • Tony Hoffer – additional keyboards, mixing
  • Will Foster – orchestral score
  • Cameron Lister – engineer
  • Dave Cooley – mastering
  • Ben Brown – cover art
  • Jamie Farrell – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Jon Fratelli, except where noted.

  1. Stand Up Tragedy
  2. Starcrossed Losers – Jon Fratelli, Will Foster
  3. Sugartown
  4. Told You So
  5. The Next Time We Wed
  6. I’ve Been Blind
  7. Laughing Gas
  8. Advaita Shuffle
  9. I Guess…I Suppose…
  10.  Indestructable
  11. I Am That

Jimmy Witherspoon: Evenin’ Blues

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In March 1964, “Prestige” label released “Evenin’ Blues”, the 19th Jimmy Witherspoon album. It was recorded in August 1963, in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Axelrod.

Personnel:

  • Jimmy Witherspoon – vocals
  • T-Bone Walker – guitar
  • Bert Kendrix – piano, organ
  • Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
  • Clarence Jones – bass
  • Wayne Robertson – drums
  • Francis Squibb – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Jimmy Witherspoon, except where noted.

  1. Money’s Gettin’ Cheaper
  2. Grab Me a Freight – Larraine Walton
  3. Don’t Let Go – Jesse Stone
  4. I’ve Been Treated Wrong – Robert Brown
  5. Evenin’ – Royce Swain
  6. Cane River
  7. Baby, How Long – Brownie McGhee
  8. Good Rockin’ Tonight – Roy Brown
  9. Kansas City – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  10. Drinkin’ Beer

Xiu Xiu: Ignore Grief

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On March 3, 2023, “Polyvinyl” label released “Ignore Grief”, the thirteenth Xiu Xiu studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Nurse” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Angela Seo.

Personnel:

  • Jamie Stewart – vocals, synthesizers, harmonium, percussion, electronic percussion, double reed flute, found objects, arrangements, recording
  • Angela Seo – vocals, piano, gongs, no-input mixer, percussion
  • David Kendrick – drums, percussion
  • Ben Chisholm – synthesizer, piano, electronic percussion 
  • Pavel Kučera – double bass
  • Patrick Shiroishi – saxophones
  • Jitka Kašparová – flutes
  • Marika Nováková – flutes
  • Dominika Charvátová – woodwinds
  • Sára Štěpánová – woodwinds
  • Pavlína Vlková – woodwinds
  • Chris Dostál – brass
  • Katrina Lišková – brass
  • David Zelenka – brass
  • Andrea Kopecká – violin
  • Radka Navrátilová – violin
  • Ezra Buchla – viola
  • Katrina Musilová – viola
  • Marie Vlčková – viola
  • Martina Čermáková – cello
  • Jiřina Hájková – cello
  • Charlie Looker – choral vocals
  • Ian Wellman – field recordings
  • Lawrence English – mixing
  • Alan Douches – mastering
  • Janelle Abad – design

Track listing:

  1. The Real Chaos Cha Cha Cha
  2. 666 Photos of Nothing
  3. Esquerita, Little Richard
  4. Maybae Baeby
  5. Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier
  6. Pahrump
  7. Border Factory
  8. Dracula Parrot, Moon Moth
  9. Brothel Creeper
  10. For M.

Gábor Szabó And Bob Thiele: Light My Fire

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In February 1968, “Impulse!” label released “Light My Fire”, album Gábor Szabó and Bob Thiele (the seventh Gábor Szabó album overall). It was recorded August – September 1967, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Bob Thiele.

Personnel:

  • Gábor Szabó – guitar
  • Bob Thiele – director
  • Dennis Budimir, Louis Morell – rhythm guitar
  • Bill Plummer – sitar
  • Lincoln Mayorga – piano, harpsichord
  • Mike Melvoin – piano, organ, harpsichord
  • Max Bennett, Carol Kaye – electric bass
  • Jim Gordon, John Guerin – drums
  • Gary Coleman, Emil Richards – percussion
  • Buddy Collette, Bob Hardaway, Bud Shank – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
  • Tom Scott – tenor saxophone
  • Ollie Mitchell, Ray Triscari, Jimmy Zito, Gary Barone, Bud Brisbois – trumpet
  • Lew McCreary, Mike Barone, Dick Leith – trombone
  • Howard Johnson – tuba
  • Sid Feller – arranger
  • The California Dreamers: Ron Hicklin, Al Capps, Loren Farber, John Bahler, Tom Bahler, Ian Freebairn-Smith, Sally Stevens, Sue Allen, Jackie Ward – vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Gábor Szabó, except where noted.

  1. Forest Flower – Charles Lloyd
  2. Rainy Day Woman – Bob Dylan
  3. Krishna
  4. Light My Fire – Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger
  5. Fakin’ It – Paul Simon
  6. Eight Miles High – David Crosby, Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn
  7. Sophisticated Wheels

Gábor Szabó: Wind, Sky And Diamonds

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In February 1968, “Impulse!” label released “Wind, Sky and Diamonds”, the eight Gábor Szabó album. It was recorded in September 1967, at “Western Recorders” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Bob Thiele.

Personnel:

  • Gábor Szabó – guitar, recitation
  • Dennis Budimir, Herb Ellis, Louis Morell, Howard Roberts – guitar
  • Bill Plummer – sitar
  • Mike Melvoin – piano, harpsichord
  • Carol Kaye, Ray Pohlman – electric bass
  • Jimmy Gordon, John Guerin – drums
  • Victor Feldman, Emil Richards – percussion
  • The California Dreamers: Ron Hicklin, Al Capps, Loren Farber, John Bahler, Tom Bahler, Ian Freebairn-Smith, Sally Stevens, Sue Allen, Jackie Ward – vocals
  • Eddie Bracket – engineer
  • Robert and Barbara Flynn – front cover design
  • Joe Lebow – liner design
  • Jim Marshall – cover photography
  • Irv Glaser – liner photography

 Track listing:

  1. San Franciscan Nights – Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, Danny McCulloch
  2. A Day in the Life – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  3. Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) – John Phillips
  4. To Sir with Love – Don Black, Mark London
  5. White Rabbit – Grace Slick
  6. Guantanamera – Joseíto Fernández
  7. Saigon Bride – Joan Baez, Nina Duscheck
  8. The End of Life – John Bahler, Tom Bahler, Gábor Szabó
  9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  10. Are You There? – Gábor Szabó, Steve Allen
  11. W.C. Fields – John Bahler, Tom Bahler