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Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams

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On May 3, 2011, “Reprise” label released “In Your Dreams”, the seventh Stevie Nicks studio album. It was recorded February-December 2010, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Mike Campbell, David A. Stewart and Glen Ballard.

Personnel:

  • Stevie Nicks: vocals, keyboards, percussion
  • Lindsey Buckingham: guitar, backing vocals
  • Glen Ballard: guitars, keyboards, piano
  • Dave Stewart: guitars, vocals
  • Tom Bukovac: guitar
  • Rob Cavallo: guitar
  • Neale Heywood: guitar
  • Waddy Wachtel: guitar
  • Greg Leisz: mandolin
  • Mike Campbell: guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion
  • Ned Douglas: keyboards
  • Ricky Peterson: Hammond organ, piano
  • Mike Rojas: Hammond organ, piano
  • Zac Rae: Hammond organ
  • Mike Rowe: keyboards, Hammond organ
  • Mike Bradford: bass
  • Simon Smith: bass
  • Michael Rhodes: bass
  • Al Ortiz: bass
  • Mick Fleetwood- drums
  • Chad Cromwell: drums
  • Steve Ferrone: drums
  • Blair Sinta: drums
  • Scott Campbell: drum programming, additional percussion
  • Lenny Castro: percussion
  • Mike Fasano: percussion
  • Ann Marie Calhoun: violin
  • Torrey DeVitto: violin
  • Sharon Celani – backing vocals
  • Lori Nicks: backing vocals
  • Scott Campbell, Ned Douglas, Karen Johnston, Mike Linett, John McBride – engineer
  • Marcus Johnson, Shin Miyazawa, Chris Owens – recording assistant
  • Chris Lord-Alge; assisted by Keith Armstrong, Nik Karpin, Andrew Schubert, Brad Townsend – mixing
  • Ted Jensen – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Secret Love – Stevie Nicks
  2. For What It’s Worth – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  3. In Your Dreams – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  4. Wide Sargasso Sea – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  5. New Orleans – Stevie Nicks, Neale Heywood
  6. Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) – Stevie Nicks
  7. Annabel Lee – Stevie Nicks, Edgar Allan Poe, Waddy Wachtel
  8. Soldier’s Angel – Stevie Nicks
  9. Everybody Loves You – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  10. Ghosts Are Gone – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  11. You May Be The One – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  12. Italian Summer – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart
  13. Cheaper Than Free – Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart

Fall Out Boy: From Underr the Cork Tree

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On May 3, 2005, “Island” label released “From Under the Cork Tree”, the second Fall Out Boy studio album. It was recorded November 2004-January 2005, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Neal Avron. The album was certified Platinum in the US by the “RIIA”.

Personnel:

  • Patrick Stump– lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
  • Joe Trohman– lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Pete Wentz– bass guitar, backing vocals, unclean vocals
  • Andy Hurley– drums, percussion
  • William Beckett – guest vocals
  • Brendon Urie – backing vocals
  • Chad Gilbert– guest vocals
  • Neal Avron– mixing
  • Tom Lord-Alge– mixing
  • Femio Hernandez – mixing assistant
  • Brian “Big Bass” Gardner– mastering
  • Travis Huff – Pro Toolsengineer
  • Mike Fasano – drum tech
  • Dan Suh – guitar tech
  • Louis Marino – creative direction
  • Frank Gargiulo – art direction, album design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Pete Wentz; all music by Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley.

  1. Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued
  2. Of All the Gin Joints in All the World
  3. Dance, Dance
  4. Sugar, We’re Goin Down
  5. Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner
  6. I’ve Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)
  7. 7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)
  8. Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year
  9. Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends
  10. I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
  11. A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More Touch Me
  12. Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows)
  13. XO

Lykke Li: I Never Learn

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On May 2, 2014, “LL Recordings” label released “I Never Learn”, the third Lykke Li studio album. It was recorded in 2013, at “Ingrid”, “Studio Spegeln”, ”Music & Words”, “Decibel Studios” in Stockholm, Sweden, “Echo Studio”, “Sonora Recorders” in Los Angeles, California, “The Green Building”  in Santa Monica, California, and was produced by Greg Kurstin, Lasse Mårtén, Lykke Li and Björn Yttling.

Personnel:

  • Lykke Li– vocals, harmonies
  • Bjorn Yttling– acoustic guitar, electric bass, Mellotron, percussion, piano, production, recording, sitar, Taurus, zither
  • Thomas Tjärnkvist – electric guitar
  • Rick Nowels– acoustic guitar, recording
  • Anders Pettersson – electric guitar, steel guitar
  • Calle Olsson – synthesizer
  • Greg Kurstin– bass, drums, electric guitar, guitar, keyboards,  Mellotron, Orchestron, organ, percussion, piano, recording
  • Lars Skoglund – drums, percussion
  • John Eriksson– percussion
  • Erik Arvinder – violin
  • Ketil Solberg – violin
  • Conny Lindgren – violin
  • Andreas Forsman – violin
  • Erik Holm – viola
  • Christopher Öhman – viola
  • Leo Svensson – cello
  • Cecilia Linné – cello
  • Mariam Wallentin – vocals
  • Andrea Thomas – choir
  • Talitha Manor – choir
  • Lasse Mårtén – percussion, drum programming, recording, mixing
  • Vincent Brantley – choir
  • Katherine Dancy – choir
  • Sean Dancy – choir
  • Yolanda Dancy – choir
  • Brandon Hampton – choir
  • Amanda Hollingby Matsson– additional vocals
  • Laura Sisk – recording
  • Kieron Menzies – recording
  • Julian Burg – recording
  • Alex Pasco – recording
  • Nille Perned – recording
  • Gustav Lindelöw – recording
  • Hans Stenlund – recording
  • Trevor Yasuda – recording
  • Ted Jensen– mastering
  • Karl Lindman – art direction
  • Brendan Dunne – design
  • Josh Olins – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Lykke Li; all music by Lykke Li and Björn Yttling except where noted.

  1. I Never Learn
  2. No Rest for the Wicked
  3. Just Like a Dream
  4. Silver Line – Lykke Li, Rick Nowels, Bjorn Yttling, Greg Kurstin
  5. Gunshot – Lykke Li, Rick Nowels, Bjorn Yttling
  6. Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone – Lykke Li, Rick Nowels, Bjorn Yttling
  7. Never Gonna Love Again
  8. Heart of Steel – Lykke Li, Rick Nowels, Bjorn Yttling
  9. Sleeping Alone

David Lindley: El Rayo – X

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In April 1981, “Asylum” label released “El Rayo-X”, the debut David Lindley album. It was recorded in 1981, at “Record One” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jackson Browne and Greg Ladanyi.

Personnel:

  • David Lindley – vocals, bass, fiddle, guitar, violin, guitars, whistle, bandurria, divan saz
  • Bill Payne- organ, keyboards
  • William D. “Smitty” Smith- organ, keyboards
  • Garth Hudson- horn, keyboards
  • George “Ras Baboo” Pierre – vocals, percussion, timbales, accordion
  • Curt Bouterse – hammer dulcimer
  • Bob Glaub- bass
  • Reggie McBride – bass
  • Ian Wallace- drums
  • Jckson Browne- vocals
  • Jorge Calderón- vocals
  • Greg Ladanyi- engineer
  • George Ybara – engineer assistant
  • Doug Sax- mastering
  • Jimmy Wachtel- art direction, design
  • Gloria Von Jansky – lettering

Track listing:

  1. She Took Off My Romeos – Bob “Frizz” Fuller
  2. Bye Bye Love – Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant
  3. Mercury Blues – C. Douglas, Bob Geddins
  4. Quarter of a Man – Bob “Frizz” Fuller
  5. Ain’t No Way – Bob “Frizz” Fuller
  6. Twist and Shout – Phil Medley, Bert Russell
  7. El Rayo-X – Jorge Calderón, David Lindley
  8. Your Old Lady – Elmo Glick, O’Kelly Isley, King Curtis
  9. Don’t Look Back – Smokey Robinson, Ronald White
  10. Petit Fleur – Solomon Feldthouse, Nancy Lindley
  11. Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas and the Sinus Blues – Huey “Piano” Smith
  12. Pay the Man – David Lindley, George “Baboo” Pierre

Joe Cocker: Jamaica Say You Will

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In April 1975, “Cube” label released “Jamaica Say You Will”, the fifth Joe Cocker studio album. It was recorded in 1974, at “The Village Recorders” in Los Angeles and was produced by Jim Price.

Personnel:

  • Joe Cocker – lead vocals
  • Ben Benay, Dan Sawyer, Daniel Moore, Henry McCullough, Cornell Dupree- guitar
  • Jim Price, Jean Alain Roussel, Nicky Hopkins, Richard Tee- keyboards
  • Ben Benay – harmonica
  • Chuck Rainey, Chris Stewart, Dave McDaniel – bass
  • Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Jim Karstein, Joe Correro – drums
  • Don Poncher – percussion
  • Jim Horn, Trevor Lawrence, Bobby Keys- saxophone
  • Steve Madaio – trumpet
  • Sherlie Matthews, Cynthia Barclay, Carol Stallings, Jim Price, Matthew Moore, Daniel Moore, Buzz Clifford, Joanne Bell, Clydie King, Venetta Fields- backing vocals
  • Peggy Sandvig – orchestration
  • Sid Sharp – strings
  • Jim Price, Richard Tee – arrangements
  • Daniel Moore – additional choral arranging
  • Zak Zenor, Rob Fraboni, Rob Fraboni, Joe Tuzen – engineer
  • Allen Zentz – mastering

Track listing:

  1. (That’s What I Like) In My Woman – Matthew Moore
  2. Where Am I Now – Jesse Ed Davis
  3. I Think It’s Going to Rain Today – Randy Newman
  4. Forgive Me Now – Matthew Moore
  5. Oh Mama – Jim Price
  6. Lucinda – Randy Newman
  7. If I Love You – Daniel Moore
  8. Jamaica, Say You Will – Jackson Browne
  9. It’s All Over But the Shoutin’ – Joe Hinton, Johnny Bristol
  10. Jack-A-Diamonds – Daniel Moore

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Unconditionally Guaranteed

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In April 1974, “Mercury” label released “Unconditionally Guaranteed”, the eighth Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band album. It was recorded in 1974, at “Hollywood Sound” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Andy DiMartino.

Personnel:

  • Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) – vocals, harmonica
  • Alex St. Clair– guitar
  • Andy DiMartino – acoustic guitar
  • Zoot Horn Rollo(Bill Harkleroad) – guitar, glass finger guitar
  • Mark Marcellino – keyboards
  • Rockette Morton(Mark Boston) – bass
  • Art Tripp– drums, percussion
  • Del Simmons – tenor sax, flute

Track listing

All tracks by Don and Jan Van Vliet and Andy DiMartino.

  1. Upon the My-O-My
  2. Sugar Bowl
  3. New Electric Ride
  4. Magic Be
  5. Happy Love Song
  6. Full Moon, Hot Sun
  7. I Got Love on My Mind
  8. This is the Day]
  9. Lazy Music
  10. Peaches

James Gang: Thirds

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In April 1971, “ABC” label released “Thirds”, the third James Gang studio album. It was recorded in 1970, at “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, “Cleveland Recording Company” in Cleveland, “Hit Factory” in New York City, and was produced by Bill Szymczyk, Joe Walsh, Dale Peters and Jim Fox. It was the last band’s album with Joe Walsh.

Personnel:

  • Joe Walsh– vocals, lead, rhythm, pedal steel and slide guitars, acoustic and electric pianos, keyboards, sound effects, organ
  • Dale Peters– vocals, electric and upright basses, vibraphone
  • Jim Fox– vocals, drums, percussion, piano, organ
  • Bob Webb – guitars, backing vocals
  • Tom Baker – horns
  • Mary Sterpka – backing vocals
  • The Sweet Inspirations– backing vocals
  • Bill Szymczyk – engineer
  • Kenneth Hamann – engineer
  • Eddie Youngblood – engineer
  • Tom Wilkes – design
  • Tom Wright – design, photography

Track listing:

  1. Walk Away – Joe Walsh
  2. Yadig? – Dale Peters, Jim Fox, Joe Walsh
  3. Things I Could Be – Jim Fox
  4. Dreamin’ In The Country – Dale Peters
  5. It’s All The Same – Joe Walsh
  6. Midnight Man – Joe Walsh
  7. Again – Joe Walsh
  8. White Man/Black Man – Dale Peters
  9. Live My Life Again – Jim Fox

The Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music

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On April 8, 2003, “American” label released “Rainy Day Music”, the seventh  Jayhawks (The) album. It was recorded in 2002, at “Sunset Sound Recording Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Ethan Johns,

Personnel:

  • Gary Louris– guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Stephen McCarthy – guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, lap steel guitar, vocals
  • Richard Causon – piano, accordion, harmonium, keyboards, Hammond organ
  • Marc Perlman – bass, guitar, mandolin, drums
  • Tim O’Reagan – drums, percussion, guitar, conga, vocals
  • Ethan Johns– dulcimer, guitar, drums, piano, percussion, harmonium, pump organ, guitar loops
  • Bernie Leadon– banjo
  • Jakob Dylan– vocals
  • Matthew Sweet– vocals
  • Chris Stills – vocals, percussion
  • Ethan Johns –engineer
  • Ed Ackerson – engineer
  • Chris Reynolds – engineer assistant
  • Richard Dodd – mastering
  • Rick Rubin– art direction
  • Craig Allen – design
  • Martyn Atkins – photography

Track listing:

All songs by Gary Louris except where noted.

  1. Stumbling Through the Dark – Gary Louris, Matthew Sweet
  2. Tailspin
  3. All the Right Reasons
  4. Save It for a Rainy Day
  5. Eyes of Sarahjane
  6. One Man’s Problem
  7. Don’t Let the World Get in Your Way -Tim O’Reagan
  8. Come to the River
  9. Angelyne
  10. Madman
  11. You Look So Young
  12. Tampa to Tulsa – Tim O’Reagan
  13. Will I See You in Heaven – Marc Perlman
  14. Stumbling Through the Dark (Reprise) – Gary Louris, Matthew Sweet

Townes Van Zandt: Our Mother the Mountain

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In April 1969, “Tomato” label released “Our Mother the Mountain”, the second Townes Van Zandt studio album. It was recorded in January 1969 in Los Angele and Nashville, and was produced by Kevin Eggers, Jim Malloy and Jack Clement.

Personnel:

  • Townes Van Zandt: vocals, guitar
  • David Cohen: guitar
  • Jack Clement: guitar
  • Mike Deasy: guitar
  • James Burton: dobro, guitar
  • Don Randi: keyboards
  • Ben Bennay: harmonica
  • Charlie McCoy: bass, guitar, harmonica, organ, recorder
  • Chuck Domanico: bass
  • Lyle Ritz: bass
  • Harvey Newmark: bass
  • John Clauder: drums
  • Donald Frost: drums
  • Jules Jacob: flute
  • Bergen White: string arrangements
  • Milton Glaser – artwork
  • Allen Vogel – photography

Track listing:

  1. Be Here to Love Me
  2. Kathleen
  3. She Came and She Touched Me
  4. Like A Summer Thursday
  5. Our Mother The Mountain
  6. Second Lovers Song
  7. John The Gambler
  8. Tecumseh Valley
  9. Snake Mountain Blues
  10. My Proud Mountains
  11. Why She’s Acting This Way