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PJ Harvey & John Parish: A Woman A Man Walked By

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On March 27, 2009, “Island” label released “A Woman a Man Walked By”, the second PJ Harvey and John Parish album. It was recorded January 2006 – September 2008, at “Toybox Studios” and “Honorsound” in Bristol, England, “Hothead Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Flood, PJ Harvey and John Parish.

Personnel:

  • Polly Jean Harvey – vocals
  • John Parish – guitars, drums, organ, ukulele, banjo
  • Giovanni Ferrario – guitar, bass guitar
  • Eric Drew Feldman – bass guitar
  • Carla Azar – drums
  • Jean-Marc Butty – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by PJ Harvey and John Parish.

  1. Black Hearted Love
  2. Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
  3. Leaving California
  4. The Chair
  5. April
  6. A Woman a Man Walked By/The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children G
  7. The Soldier
  8. Pig Will Not
  9. Passionless, Pointless
  10. Cracks in the Canvas

Sparklehorse: It’s A Wonderful Life

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On August 28, 2001, “Capitol” label released “It’s a Wonderful Life”, the third Sparklehorse studio album. It was recorded 2000 – 2001, and was produced by Mark Linkous, Dave Fridmann and John Parish.

Personnel:

  • Mark Linkous – voice, backwards high pitched voice, optigan, chamberlin, sampler, Wurlitzer piano, guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, e-bow guitar, Casio keyboard, mellotron, drum machine, Prophet 5 synthesizer, drums, percussion, Magic Genie organ, Moog synthesizer, wire recorder
  • Dave Fridmann – bass, Wurlitzer piano, mellotro, piano, chamberlin, glockenspiel, vibraphone
  • Polly Jean Harvey – voice, electric guitar, piano, guitar,
  • Sophie Michalitsianos – voice, bass
  • Bob Rupe – bass
  • Scott Minor – drums, orchestron, electronic birds, electronics, Russian satellite, chamberlin, filtered drums, percussion, Korg MS-20 keyboard, harmonium
  • John Parish – bass, Casio keyboard, piano
  • Margaret White – bass, violin
  • Rex L. White—pedal-steel guitar
  • Nina Persson – voice
  • Miguel Rodriguez – drums
  • Adrian Utley – Dictaphone, bass, Kitty-Cat guitar, fuzzy-ending bass
  • Tom Waits – voice, big seed pod, metal things, train, piano
  • Joan Wasser – violin, Wurlitzer piano
  • Jane Scarpantoni – cello
  • Alan Weatherhead – orchestron, mellotron, chamberlin, lap steel guitar
  • Joel Hamilton – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Mark Linkous, except where noted.

  1. It’s a Wonderful Life
  2. Gold Day
  3. Piano Fire
  4. Sea of Teeth
  5. Apple Bed
  6. King of Nails
  7. Eyepennies
  8. Dog Door – Mark Linkous, Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits
  9. More Yellow Birds
  10. Little Fat Baby – Mark Linkous, Vic Chesnutt
  11. Devil’s New
  12. Comfort Me
  13. Babies on the Sun (The track Babies on the Sun ends at 4:37. After 3 minutes of silence, at 7:37 begins the hidden song Morning Hollow.)