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Sting:Ten Summoner’s Tales

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On March 1, 1993, “A&M” label released “Ten Summoner’s Tales”, the fourth Sting studio album. It was recorded June – December 1992, at “Lake House” in Wiltshire, England, and was produced by Hugh Padgham and Sting.

Personnel:

  • Sting – vocals, bass guitar, double bass, harmonica, saxophone, arrangements
  • Dominic Miller – guitars
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
  • David Sancious – keyboards
  • Larry Adler – chromatic harmonica
  • Brendan Power – chromatic harmonica
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
  • Richard Edwards – trombone
  • Mark Nightingale – trombone
  • John Barclay – trumpet
  • Guy Barker – trumpet
  • Dave Heath – flute
  • Kathryn Tickell – Northumbrian small pipes, fiddle
  • Simon Fischer – violin
  • Kathryn Greeley – violin
  • James Boyd – viola
  • Sian Bell – cello
  • David Foxxe – narration
  • Hugh Padgham – engineer, mixing
  • Andrew Bradfield – engineer assistant
  • Pete Lewis – engineer assistant
  • Simon Osborne – engineer assistant
  • Roger Lian – digital editing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Danny Quatrochi – personal technical assistant
  • Richard Frankel – art direction, design
  • Norman Moore – art direction, design
  • Kevin Westenberg – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Sting, except where noted..

  1. Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith in You)
  2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
  3. Fields of Gold
  4. Heavy Cloud No Rain
  5. She’s Too Good for Me
  6. Seven Days
  7. Saint Augustine in Hell
  8. It’s Probably Me – Sting, Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen
  9. Everybody Laughed but You
  10. Shape of My Heart – Sting, Dominic Miller
  11. Something the Boy Said
  12. Epilogue (Nothing ‘Bout Me)

Ringo Starr: Look Up

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On January 10, 2025, “Universal Music Enterprise” label released “Look Up”, the twenty-first Ringo Starr studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by T-Bone Burnett, Daniel Tashian and Bruce Sugar.

Personnel:

  • Ringo Starr – lead vocals, drums, percussion, whistling
  • T Bone Burnett – acoustic and electric guitar, 6-string bass
  • Daniel Tashian – acoustic and electric guitar, 12 string lead guitar, woodblock , 6-string bass, piano, harmony vocals
  • Billy Strings – harmony vocal, lead acoustic guitar, guitars, electric guitar
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
  • Joe Walsh – slide guitar
  • Greg Leisz – acoustic guitars
  • Rory Hoffman – acoustic guitar, clarinet
  • Molly Tuttle – harmony and duet vocal, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, mandolin
  • Colin Linden – resonator guitar
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
  • Rebecca Lovell – mandolin, backing vocals
  • Andy Cata – piano
  • Mike Rojas – piano
  • Mickey Raphael – harmonica
  • Dennis Crouch – bass
  • David Mansfield – string arrangement
  • Lucius (Jess Wolfe & Holly Laessig) – backing vocals
  • Megan Lovell – backing vocals
  • Alison Krauss – harmony vocal
  • Bruce Sugar – engineer
  • Michael Piersante – engineer, mixing
  • Mike Stankiwicz – engineer
  • Eddie Roberts – additional engineering, engineer assistant
  • David Paulin – engineer assistant
  • Grant Wilson – engineer assistant
  • Joanna Finley – engineer assistant
  • Karl Wingate – engineer assistant
  • Michelle Freetly – engineer assistant
  • Reuben Cohen – mastering
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Ivy Skoff – production coordination

Track listing:

All tracks by T Bone Burnett, except where noted.

  1. Breathless
  2. Look Up – T-Bone Burnett, Daniel Tashian
  3. Time on My Hands – T-Bone Burnett, Daniel Tashian, Paul Kennerley
  4. Never Let Me Go
  5. I Live for Your Love – T-Bone Burnet, Bill Swan
  6. Come Back
  7. Can You Hear me Calling
  8. Rosetta
  9. You Want Some – Bill Swan
  10. String Theory – T-Bone Burnett, Daniel Tashian
  11. Thankful – Bruce Sugar, Richard Starkey

Iris DeMent: The Way I Should

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On October 8, 1996, “Warner Bros” label released “The Way I Should”, the third Iris DeMent studio album. It was recorded in 1996, at “Scruggs Sound” in Berry Hill, Tennessee, and was produced by Randy Scruggs.

Personnel:

  • Iris DeMent – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Mark Knopfler – National guitar
  • Lonnie Mack – electric guitar
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar solo
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar
  • John Jennings – guitar, EBow, 6-string bass
  • Randy Scruggs – guitar
  • Stuart Smith – guitar, slide guitar
  • Earl Scruggs – banjo
  • Tom Roady – tambourine
  • Chuck Leavell – organ, piano, accordion
  • Delbert McClinton – vocals, harmonica
  • Dave Pomeroy – bass
  • Harry Stinson – drums
  • Tammy Rogers – fiddle, mandolin, violin, viola, cello
  • Bekka Bramlett – backing vocals
  • Billy Burnette – backomg vocals
  • Melodie Crittenden – backing vocals
  • Russ Taff – backing vocals
  • Chuck Ainlay – engineer, mixing
  • Chris Rua, Graham Lewis – engineer assistant
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • Stephen Walker, Terry Robertson – art direction, design
  • Debbie Spinelli, Rocky Schenck – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Iris DeMent, except where noted.

  1. When My Mornin’ Comes Around
  2. There’s a Wall in Washington
  3. Wasteland of the Free
  4. I’ll Take You My Sorrow Straight – Iris DeMent, Elmer McCall
  5. This Kind of Happy – Iris DeMent, Merle Haggard
  6. The Way I Should
  7. Letter to Mom
  8. Keep Me God
  9. Quality Time
  10. Walkin’ Home
  11. Trouble – Iris DeMnet, Elmer McCall

Peter Frampton: Fingerprints

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On September 12, 2006, “A&M” label released “Fingerprints”, the 13th Peter Frampton studio album. It was recorded in 2006, at “Muchmore Studio” in Cincinnati, Ohio, “British Groove Studio” and “Eden Studios” in London, “Robert Lang Studios” in Seattle, WA, “OGM Studios and Jorgensounds” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Gordon Kennedy and Peter Frampton. In 2007, “Fingerprints” won a “Grammy Award” for “Best Pop Instrumental Album”.

Personnel:

  • Peter Frampton – acoustic, electric and rhythm guitar, E-Bow
  • Mike McCready – guitar
  • Gordon Kennedy – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Hank Marvin – electric guitar
  • Warren Haynes – electric guitar
  • John Jorgenson – lead and rhythm guitar
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
  • Arthur Stead – keyboards
  • Blair Masters – keyboards, cello sample
  • Gustavo Ramirez – grand piano
  • Chris Stainton – grand piano, Hammond B-3 organ
  • Mark Harris – Hammond B-3 organ
  • John Regan – bass, double bass
  • Stanley Sheldon – fretless bass
  • Gary Westlake – bass
  • Mark Griffiths – bass
  • Bill Wyman – bass
  • Charlie Chadwick – acoustic bass
  • Chad Cromwell – drums
  • Shawn Fichter – drums
  • Matt Cameron – drums
  • Brian Bennett – drums
  • Charlie Watts – drums
  • Daniel de los Reyes – percussion
  • Courtney Pine – tenor saxophone
  • Stephan Dudash – 5-string viola
  • Aaron Swihart – Internet cooking programs
  • Gary L Cales II – DAW chief technical engineer
  • John Burton – Pro-Tools

Track listing:

All tracks by Peter Frampton and Gordon Kennedy, except where noted.

  1. Boot It Up – Peter Frampton, John Regan
  2. Ida y Vuelta (Out and Back) – Peter Frampton, Shawn Fichter, Stanley Sheldon
  3. Black Hole Sun – Chris Cornell
  4. Float
  5. My Cup of Tea – Hank Marvin, Brian Bennett, Gordon Kennedy, Peter Frampton
  6. Shewango Way
  7. Blooze – Peter Frampton
  8. Cornerstones – Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Chris Stainton, Peter Frampton
  9. Grab a Chicken (Put It Back)
  10. Double Nickels
  11. Smoky – Peter Frampton
  12. Blowin’ Smoke – Matt Cameron, Mike McCready, Gary Westlake, Peter Frampton
  13. Oh When… – Peter Frampton
  14. Souvenirs de Nos Pères (Memories of Our Fathers) – John Jorgenson

Etta James: Love’s Been Rough On Me

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On April 29, 1997, “Private Music” label released “Love’s Been Rough on Me”, the twentieth Etta James studio album. It was recorded in 1997, and was produced by Barry Beckett.

Personnel:

  • Etta James – lead vocals
  • Don Potter – acoustic guitar
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar
  • Brent Rowan – electric guitar
  • Josh Sklair – electric guitar
  • Dann Huff – electric guitar
  • Steve Nathan – keyboards
  • Barry Beckett – keyboards
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
  • Eddie Bayers – drums
  • Terry McMillan – percussion
  • Jim Horn – saxophone
  • Sam Levine – saxophone
  • Joe McGlohon – saxophone
  • Mike Haynes – trumpet
  • Chris McDonald – trombone
  • Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
  • Yvonne Hodges – backing vocals
  • Donna McElroy – backing vocals
  • Louis Dean Nunley – backing vocals
  • John Wesley Ryles – backing vocals
  • Dennis Wilson – backing vocals
  • Curtis Young – backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. The Rock – Russell Smith, Jim Varsos
  2. Cry Like a Rainy Day – Greg Barnhill, Kenny Greenberg
  3. Love’s Been Rough on Me – Gretchen Peters
  4. Love It or Leave It Alone – Kara Cody, Will Jennings, John Keller
  5. Don’t Touch Me – Hank Cochran
  6. Hold Me – Graham Lyle, Troy Seals
  7. If I Had Any Pride Left at All – John Greenbaum, Seals, Eddie Setser
  8. I Can Give You Everything – Al Anderson, Terry Anderson
  9. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long – Jerry Butler, Otis Redding
  10. Done in the Dark – Josh Sklair, Etta James

Keb’ Mo’: BluesAmericana

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On April 22, 2014, “Kind of Blue Music” label released “BLUESAmericana”, the twelfth Keb’ Mo’ studio album. It was recorded in 2013, at “Stu Stu Studio” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Keb’ Mo’, Leigh Brannon and Casey Wasner.

Personnel:

  • Keb’ Mo’ (Kevin Moore) – acoustic and electric guitar, resonator guitar, slide guitar, banjo, bass, piano, electric piano, organ, keyboards, harmonica, horn arrangements
  • The California Feet Warmers – featured artist
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel
  • Jeffrey Moran – banjo
  • Patrick Morrison – banjo
  • Colin Linden – mandolin, handclapping
  • Tim Lauer – organ, piano
  • Michael Hanna – piano, organ
  • Michael Hicks – organ, backing vocals
  • Casey Wasner – bass, drums, engineer, tracking
  • Brian Allen – bass
  • Tom Hambridge – drums
  • Dominique Rodriguez – drums
  • Steve Jordan – drums
  • Keio Stroud – drums
  • Jovan Quallo – tenor saxophone
  • Brandon Armstrong – sousaphone
  • Charles Decastro – trumpet
  • Quentin Ware – trumpet
  • Justin Rubenstein – trombone
  • Roland Barber – trombone
  • Joshua Kaufman – clarinet
  • Tom Shinness – cello, mandolin
  • Juan Carlos Reynoso – washboard
  • Joe Wood – handclapping
  • Robbie Brooks-Moore – backing vocals
  • Moiba Mustafa – backing vocals
  • Rip Patton – backing vocals
  • Kevin So – backing vocals
  • Darcy Stewart – backing vocals
  • Melvin “Maestro” Lightford – horn arrangements
  • John Caldwell – engineer, tracking
  • David Leonard – engineer, tracking
  • John Schirmer – engineer, tracking
  • Zach Allen – engineer, tracking
  • Ross Hogarth – mixing
  • Richard Dodd – mastering
  • Meghan Aileen Schirmer – design, package design
  • Andrea Lucero – photography
  • Leigh Brannon – project manager

Track listing:

  1. The Worst Is Yet to Come – Heather Donovan, Kevin Moore, Pete Sallis
  2. Somebody Hurt You – Kevin Moore, John Lewis Parker
  3. Do It Right – Kevin Moore, Jim Weatherly
  4. I’m Gonna Be Your Man – Kevin Moore, John Lewis Parker
  5. Move – Tom Hambridge, Kevin Moore
  6. For Better or Worse – Tom Hambridge, Kevin Moore
  7. That’s Alright – Jimmy Rogers
  8. Old Me Better – Kevin Moore, John Lewis Parker
  9. More For Your Money – Kevin Moore, Gary Nicholson
  10. So Long Goodbye – Rebecca Correia, Kevin Moore

Shania Twain: The Woman In Me

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On February 7, 1995, “Polygram” label released “The Woman in Me”, the second Shania Twain studio album. It was recorded 1994 – 1995, at “Sound Stage Studio”, “Battery Studios”, “Javelina Recording Studios” and “Recording Arts” in Nashville, “A.R.P. Track Productions” in St. Anne Des Lacs, Quebec, Canada, and was produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange. In December 2000, the album was certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA in USA. In 2006, “The Woman in Me” was ranked number 8 on CMT’s list of “40 Greatest Albums in Country Music”.

Personnel:

  • Shania Twain – lead and backing vocals, claps, footsteps
  • Dann Huff – tic tac bass, lead guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, guitar textures, wa-wa guitar (Sic), jangle guitar, claps
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, Pedabro
  • Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric rhythm guitar
  • Brent Mason – lead guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar
  • Billy Crain – slide guitar
  • John Hughey – pedal steel guitar
  • Brent Rowan – electric guitar textures
  • Sam Bush – mandolin
  • John Barlow Jarvis – piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
  • Hargus “Pig” Robbins – piano
  • David Hungate – bass guitar, fretless bass, double bass
  • Paul Leim – drums, percussion, tambourine, shaker, door slam
  • Terry McMillan – percussion, cowbell, harmonica, boot stomps
  • Joe Spivey – fiddle
  • Glen Duncan – fiddle
  • Rob Hajacos – fiddle
  • Nashville String Machine – string section
  • Ronn Huff – string arrangements
  • Nick Keca – claps
  • Robert John “Mutt” Lange – backing vocals, claps
  • Warren Peterson – engineer
  • Simon Pressey – engineer
  • Ron “Snake” Reynolds – engineer
  • Nick Keca – engineer
  • Lee Groitzsch – overdub engineer
  • Brian Tankersly – overdub engineer
  • Craig White – engineer assistant
  • Robert Charles – overdub engineer assistant
  • Wayne Morgan – overdub engineer assistant

Track listing:

 All tracks by Shania Twain and Robert John Lange, except where noted

  1. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
  2. Any Man of Mine
  3. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
  4. (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!
  5. The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)
  6. Is There Life After Love?
  7. If It Don’t Take Two
  8. You Win My Love – Robert John Lange
  9. Raining on Our Love
  10. Leaving Is the Only Way Out – Shania Twain
  11. No One Needs to Know
  12. God Bless the Child

Livingston Taylor: There You Are Again

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On January 24, 2006, “Coconut Bay” label released “There You Are Again”, the 17th Livingston Taylor album. It was recorded in 2005, at “Paragon Studios”, “Vertical Sound Studio”, “Skylight Studio” and “Oxford recording Studio” in Nashville, “Avatar Studio”, “Dark Horse Recording”, “The Tracking Room”, “Sound Kitchen”, “Verité Music”, “Hiatus Studios”, “Q Division Studios” and “ Parr Audio”, and was produced by Glenn Rosenstein.

Personnel:

  • Livingston Taylor – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Carly Simon – lead vocal
  • Take 6 – lead vocals
  • James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Jeffrey Mirinof – acoustic and electric guitar
  • George Marinelli – electric guitar
  • Danny Toroll – electric guitar
  • Chris Rodiguez – electric guitar
  • Vince Gill – electric guitar
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
  • Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
  • Aybrie Haynie – mandolin
  • Shane Keister – piano, Hammond organ
  • Matt Rollings – piano, organ
  • Gary Corbett – Hammond organ
  • Glenn Worf – bass
  • Leland Sklar – bass
  • Tommy Sims – bass
  • Chad Cromwell – drums
  • Steve Gadd – drums
  • Bashiri Johnson, Ken Lewis – percussion
  • Gary Burton – vibraphone
  • David Sanborn – saxophone
  • Jerry Vivino – tenor saxophone
  • Lew Soloff – trumpet
  • Tony Kadleck – trumpet
  • Rich Rosenberg – trombone
  • Gary Corbett – glockenspiel
  • Paul Franklin – dobro
  • Tim Davis – backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • New Day Jubilee Choir – backing vocals
  • Kim Flemming, Kim Mont, Vicki Hampton, Kate Taylor, Pam Tillis, Lisa Cochran, Marabeth Jordan – backing vocals
  • Mark Kibble – vocals arrangements
  • Andraé Crouch – choir arrangements, conductor
  • Sheldon Mirowitz – strings arrangements, conductor
  • Jimmy Vivino – horn arrangements
  • Glenn Rosenstein, Joe Ferla, Steve Bishir, John Jaszcz, Mark Kibble, Jim Parr – engineer
  • Allen Ditto, Kris Smith – additional engineer
  • Brian Montgomery – Pro Tools engineer
  • Kevin Edlin – engineer assistant
  • Fred Paragano – editing
  • George Massenburg – mixing, mastering
  • Bart Henderson – photography
  • Sandra Flach, Traci Bishir – coordinator
  • Greg Manocherian – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Livingston Taylor.

  1. Best of Friends
  2. There I’ll Be
  3. Yes
  4. My baby Don’t Mind
  5. Step by Step
  6. There You Are Again
  7. Tuesday Lullaby
  8. Tell Jesus (To Come to My House)
  9. Blame it on Me
  10. My Perfect Christmas Day
  11. Wish I Were a Cowboy
  12. You’re the Boss of Me

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