Tag Archives: Mike Mogis

Phoebe Bridgers: Stranger In The Alps

On September 22, 2017, “Dead Oceans” label released “Stranger in the Alps”, the debut Phoebe Bridgers studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Zeitgeist” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska.

Personnel:

  • Phoebe Bridgers – vocals, guitar, banjo
  • Ethan Gruska – keyboards, piano, drums, percussion, drum programming, guitar, bass, baritone guitar, bandura, jet engine, “that incessant toe tapping”
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
  • Tony Berg – guitar, keyboards, recording
  • Harrison Whitford – guitar
  • Daniel Rhine – upright bass
  • Marshall Vore – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Conor Oberst – vocals
  • John Doe – vocals
  • Rob Moose – strings
  • Gabe Witcher – violin
  • Gabe Noel – cello, bass
  • Rob Moose – string arrangements
  • Mike Mogis – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Angela Deane – artwork
  • Nathaniel David Utesch – layout
  • Elaine Gandola – photography
  • Frank W. Ockenfels III – photography
  • Bridgers’ mother – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Phoebe Bridgers, except where noted.

  1. Smoke Signals – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore
  2. Motion Sickness – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore
  3. Funeral
  4. Demi Moore – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford
  5. Scott Street – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore
  6. Killer
  7. Georgia
  8. Chelsea
  9. Would You Rather – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, Tony Berg
  10. You Missed My Heart – Mark Kozalek, Jimmy LaValle
  11. Smoke Signals (reprise) – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore

Bright Eyes: Don’t Be Frightened Of Turning The Page

On September 21, 2000, “Bad News”, “62TV” and “Les Disques Mange-Tout” labels released “Don’t Be Frightened of Turning the Page”, the second Bright Eyes extended play.  

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst – lead vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion
  • Mike Mogis – voice, bass, mandolin, steel and electric guitar, synthesizer [Synthstrings], vibraphone, electric Piano, percussion, recording
  • Andy Lemaster – voice, keyboards
  • Sgane Aspergren – drums
  • Justin Kohmetscher – trumpet
  • Steve Micek – horn
  • Jiha Lee – flute
  • Zack Nipper – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Going for the Gold
  2. Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
  3. I Won’t Ever Be Happy Again
  4. No Lies, Just Love
  5. Kathy With a K’s Song
  6. Mirrors and Fevers

Mayday: Old Blood

On May 14, 2002, “Saddle Creek” label released “Old Blood”, the debut Mayday studio album. It was recorded May – November 2001, at “Presto! Recording Studios” in Lincoln, Nebraska, “Chase Park Transduction” in Athens, Georgia, and was produced by Mike Mogis.

Personnel:

  • Ted Stevens – guitar, backing vocals
  • Tiffany Kowalski
  • John Kotchian
  • Mike Mogis – various instruments, recording
  • A. J. Mogis – bass, recording
  • Pat Oakes – drums
  • Andy Lemaster
  • Conor Oberst
  • Maria Taylor
  • Orenda Fink
  • Renee Ledesma Hoover
  • Gretta Cohn – cello
  • The Georgians – additional tracking
  • Doug Van Sloun – mastering
  • Matt Maginn – layout
  • Robb Oberst – layout
  • Ted Stevens – layout
  • Jammie Williams – photography
  • Sara Adkison – photography
  • Ted Stevens – photography

Track listing:

  1. Cinquefoils
  2. Come Home
  3. Captain
  4. Tone/Atone/Atonal
  5. Lullaby For the Sleeping Elephant
  6. I Know Moonlight
  7. Confession
  8. Pilot
  9. Temple/Temporary/Extempore/Tempo

Cursive: Domestica

On June 20, 2000, “Saddle Creek” label released “Domestica”, the third Cursive studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Mike Mogis.

Personnel:

  • Tim Kasher – vocals, guitar
  • Ted Stevens – vocals, guitar
  • Matt Maginn – vocals, bass
  • Clint Schnase – drums, percussion
  • AJ Mogis – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Mike Mogis – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Doug Van Sloun – mastering
  • Zack Nipper – cover art model
  • Jenn Bernard – cover art model

Track listing:

All tracks by Tim Kasher, Ted Stevens, Matt Maginn and Clint Schnase.

  1. The Casualty
  2. The Martyr
  3. Shallow Means, Deep Ends
  4. Making Friends and Acquaintances
  5. A Red So Deep
  6. The Lament of Pretty Babe
  7. The Game of Who Needs Who the Worst
  8. The Radiator Hums
  9. The Night I Lost the Will to Flight

M. Ward: Hold Time

On February 17, 2009, “Merge” and “4AD” labels released “Hold Time”, the sixth M. Ward studio album. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by M. Ward.

Personnel:

  • M. Ward – voice, guitar, keyboards, bass, string arrangements
  • Jason Lytle – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Mike Coykendall – bass, percussion
  • Adam Selzer, Jordan Hudson, Rachel Blumberg, Than Luu – percussion
  • Peter Broderick, Tom Hagerman – strings, violins
  • Bill Ritchie – upright bass
  • Mike Mogis – percussion, bells, mandolin, keyboards
  • Elin Palmer – violin
  • Allison Stewart – viola
  • Dave Campbell – cello
  • Zooey Deschanel – vocals
  • Lucinda Williams – vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by M. Ward, except where noted.

  1. For Beginners
  2. Never Had Nobody Like You
  3. Jailbird
  4. Hold Time
  5. Rave On – Norman Petty, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West
  6. To Save Me
  7. One Hundred Million Years
  8. Stars of Leo
  9. Fisher of Men
  10. Oh, Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
  11. Epistemology
  12. Blake’s View
  13. Shangri-La
  14. Outro (aka: I’m a Fool to Want You) – Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf

Bright Eyes: The People’s Keys

On February 15, 2011, “Saddle Creek” label released “The People’s Key”, the ninth Bright Eyes studio album. It was recorded in 2010, at “ARC Studios” in Omaha, Nebraska, and was produced by Mike Mogis.

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst – vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards
  • Mike Mogis – guitars, pedal steel, programming, effects, programming, engineer
  • Nate Walcott – synthesizers, piano, organ, Mellotron
  • Andy LeMaster – vocals, guitar, bass guitar
  • Matt Maginn – bass guitar
  • Carla Azar – drums, percussion
  • Clark Baechle – drums
  • Shane Agsperen – drums, additional drums, additional percussion
  • Laura Burhenn – vocals
  • Denny Brewer – shamanic vocals
  • Andy LeMaster – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Conor Oberst.

  1. Firewall
  2. Shell Games
  3. Jejune Stars
  4. Approximate Sunlight
  5. Haile Selassie
  6. A Machine Spiritual (in the People’s Key}
  7. Triple Spiral
  8. Beginner’s Mind
  9. Ladder Song
  10. One for You, One for Me

Bright Eyes: Every Day and Every Night

On November 1, 1999, “Saddle Creek Records” label released “Every Day and Every Night”, an EP by Bright Eyes. It was recorded in 1999, and was produced by Mike Moggis.

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst – vocals, guitar, sampling, keyboards, bass
  • Eric Bemberger – electric guitar
  • Mike Mogis – organ, pedal steel, vibraphone, keyboards, percussion
  • Matt Maginn – bass
  • Joe Knapp – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Tim Kasher – backing vocals
  • AJ Mogis – piano, loops
  • Angelina Mullikin – violin

Track listing:

  1. A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not
  2. A Perfect Sonnet
  3. On My Way to Work
  4. A New Arrangement
  5. Neely O’Hara

Bright Eyes: Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was

On August 21, 2020, “Dead Oceans” label released “Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was”, the tenth Bright Eyes studio album. It was recorded in 2019, at “ARC” and “Pageturners Lounge” in Omaha, “Electro Vox” in Los Angeles, “Capitol Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott.

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • Mike Mogis – electric guitar, pedal steel, banjo, Marxophone, synth bass, percussion, hammer dulcimer, bajo sexto, programming
  • Nathaniel Walcott – piano, trumpet, flugelhorn, Hammond organ, electric pianos, synthesizers, vibraphone, Omnichord, Mellotron, harpsichord, orchestra and choir arrangements
  • Dan McCarthy – piano
  • Flea – bass
  • Macey Taylor – bass
  • Jenny Lee Lindberg – bass
  • Jon Theodore – drums, percussion, timpani
  • Kip Skitter – percussion
  • Joe Fuchs – bagpipes
  • Joe Todero – bagpipes
  • Malcolm Wilbur – bagpipes
  • John Mitchell – baritone saxophone
  • Jon Lewis – trumpet
  • Daniel Rosenboom – trumpet
  • Johanna Borenstein – flute
  • Lara Wickes – oboe, English horn
  • Don Foster – clarinet
  • Alex Iles – trombone
  • Steve Holtman – trombone
  • Jessica Guideri – violin
  • Tammy Hatwan – violin
  • Jackie Brand – violin
  • Roberto Cani – violin
  • Paul Cartwright – violin
  • Nina Evtuhov – violin
  • Gerry Hilera – violin
  • Ana Landauer – violin
  • Natalie Leggett – violin
  • Michele Richards – violin
  • Jenny Takamatsu – violin
  • John Wittenberg – violin
  • Rob Brophy – viola
  • Tom Lea – viola
  • Luke Maurer – viola
  • Rodney Wirtz – viola
  • Vanessa Freebairn-Smith – cello
  • Erika Duka – cello
  • Dane Little – cello
  • Charlie Tyler – cello
  • Suzie Katayama – orchestra conductor
  • Corina Figueroa Escamilla – vocals
  • Nancy Oberst – vocals
  • Miwi La Lupa – vocals
  • Andy LeMaster – vocals
  • Susan Sanchez – vocals
  • Jesca Hoop – vocals
  • James Connor – choir vocals
  • Quishima Dixon – choir vocals
  • Natalie Ganther – choir vocals
  • Anthony Johnston – choir vocals
  • Edward Lawson – choir vocals
  • Jennifer Lee – choir vocals
  • Sharetta Morgan-Harmon – choir vocals
  • Marquee Perkins – choir vocals
  • Jason McGee – choir conductor
  • Mike Mogis – engineer, mixing
  • Michael Harris – engineer
  • Steve Churchyard – engineer
  • Adam Roberts – engineer assistant
  • Nik Fackler – engineer assistant
  • Aaron Gum – engineer assistant
  • Chris Cerullo – engineer assistant
  • Chandler Harrod – engineer assistant
  • Andy LeMaster – engineer assistant
  • Tim Thomas – engineer assistant
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Zack Nipper – artwork, layout
  • Rob Walters – diorama photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Conor Oberst, except where noted, all music by Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott.

  1. Pageturners Rag
  2. Dance and Sing
  3. Just Once in the World – Conor Oberst, Miwi La Lupa
  4. Mariana Trench
  5. One and Done
  6. Pan and Broom
  7. Stairwell Song
  8. Persona Non Grata
  9. Tilt-A-Whirl
  10. Hit Car in the Sun
  11. Forced Convalescence
  12. To Death’s Heart (In Three Parts)
  13. Calais to Dover
  14. Comet Song

Lullaby for the Working Class: Blanket Warm

On September 24, 1996, “Bar / Non Records” label released “Blanket Warm”, the debut Lullaby for the Working Class studio album. It was recorded December 1994 – April 1996, at “Whoopass Recording Studio” at Lincoln, Nebraska.

Personnel:

  • Ted Stevens – vocals, guitar
  • Mike Mogis – guitar, banjo, mandolin, glockenspiel, recording, mixing
  • A.J. Mogis – bass, recording, mixing
  • Clint Schnase, Shane Aspegren – drums
  • Anil Seth – cello
  • Nathan Putens – clarinet
  • Andy Strain, Johnathon Hischke – trombone
  • Nate Walcott – trumpet
  • Chris Gordon – violin
  • Eric Medley – mastering
  • Thomas Irvin – artwork
  • Rob Walters – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ted Stevens.

  1. Good Morning
  2. Honey, Drop the Knife
  3. Turpentine
  4. Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows
  5. Boar’s Nest
  6. Eskimo Song Duel
  7. Three Peas in a Pod
  8. Rye
  9. Queen of the Long-Legged Insects
  10. The Drama of Your Life
  11. February North 24th St.
  12. The Wounded Spider
  13. Good Night

Jenny Lewis: The Voyager

On July 29, 2014, “Warner Bros” label released “The Voyager”, the third Jenny Lewis studio album. It was recorded 2013 – 2014, at “Pax-Am Studios” in Hollywood, CA. “ARC Studios” in Omaha, NE, and was produced by Ryan Adams, Beck Hansen, Jenny Lewis, Jonathan Rice and Mike Viola.

Personnel:

  • Jenny Lewis – vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, layout
  • Alex Greenwald – vocal
  • Beck Hansen – vocal
  • Johanna Söderberg – vocal
  • Jonathan Rice – vocal
  • Klara Söderberg – vocal
  • Mike Viola – vocal
  • Farmer Dave Scher – vocal
  • Benmomt Tench – vocal, keyboards
  • Ryan Adams – vocal, guitar
  • Elizabeth Berg – vocal, guitar
  • Jason Boesel – vocal, guitar
  • Rebecca Stark – vocal, tambourine
  • Blake Mills – guitar
  • Gus Seyffert – guitar
  • Lou Barlow – bass, guitar
  • Mike Elizondo – bass, keyboards
  • Mickey Madden – bass
  • Wyllie Gelber – bass
  • Griffin Goldsmith – drums, percussion
  • Jason Boessel – drums
  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • Nate Walcott – horn
  • The Section Quartet
  • Lili Haydn – violin
  • Daphine Chen – string arrangements
  • Nathaniel Walcott – string arrangements
  • The Watson Twins
  • Charlie Stavish, David Labrel, Mike Mogis – recording
  • Brent Arrowood, Chris Szcech, Cole Marsden, Grief Neill, David “Elevator” Greenbaum, Jason Lader, Jim Watts, Mario Borgatta, Pierre de Reeder, Robert Rossman – additional recording
  • Rich Costey – mixing
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Norman Wonderly, Stephen Walker – layout
  • Autumn De Wilde – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jenny Lewis, except where noted.

  1. Head Underwater
  2. She’s Not Me – Jonathan Rice
  3. Just One of the Guys
  4. Slippery Slopes
  5. Late Bloomer
  6. You Can’t Outrun ‘Em
  7. The New You – Jonathan Rice
  8. Aloha & the Three Johns
  9. Love U Forever
  10. The Voyager