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The Proclaimers: Hit The Highway

On March 7, 1994, “Chrysalis” label released “Hit the Highway”, the third Proclaimers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1993, at “Chipping North Studio” in Chipping North, Oxfordshire, England, and was produced by Pete Wingfield, Charlie Reid and Craig Reid.

Personnel:

  • Craig Reid – vocals, tambourine
  • Charlie Reid – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar 
  • Stuart Nisbet – acoustic and electric guitar, steel guitar, mandolin
  • Tim Renwick – acoustic and electric guitar, electric slide guitar
  • Jerry Donahue – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Bobby Valentino – fiddle
  • Pete Wingfield – keyboards, piano, Hammond C3 
  • Pete Thomas – tenor and baritone saxophone 
  • Raul D’Oliveira – trumpet
  • Vince Sullivan – trombone
  • Iain Bruce – bass guitar
  • Phil Cranham – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
  • Kevin Wilkinson – drums
  • Dave Mattacks – drums
  • Martin Ditcham – percussion
  • Barry Hammond – engineer
  • Geoff Pesche – mastering 

Track listing:

All tracks by Charlie and Craig Reid, except where noted.

  1. Let’s Get Married
  2. The More I Believe
  3. What Makes You Cry?
  4. Follow the Money
  5. These Arms of Mine – Otis Redding
  6. Shout Shout
  7. The Light
  8. Hit the Highway
  9. A Long Long Long Time Ago
  10. I Want to Be a Christian – Sullivan S. Puch
  11. Your Childhood
  12. Don’t Turn Out Like Your Mother

Bruce Hornby and the Range: A Night on the Town

On May 25, 1990, “RCA” label released “A Night on the Town”, the third and final Bruce Hornsby and the Range studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “Record One” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Don Gehman and Bruce Hornsby.  

Personnel:

  • Bruce Hornsby – lead vocals, grand piano, synthesizer, accordion
  • George Marinelli – guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Joe Puerta – bass, backing vocals
  • John Molo – drums
  • Jerry Garcia – guitar
  • David Mansfield – guitar, violin
  • Béla Fleck – banjo 
  • Jimmie Wood – harmonica
  • Charlie Haden – upright bass
  • Wayne Shorter – saxophone
  • Laura Creamer, Fred White, Bridgette Bryant, Shaun Murphy, Shawn Colvin, David Lasley, Arnold McCuller – backing vocals
  • Ed Thacker – engineer, mixing
  • Eddie King – engineer
  • Steve “Sound” Cormier, Don Gehman – additional engineering
  • Don Bosworth, Robin Laine-Levine, Ted Pattison, John “Chamberlin” Pilatus, Neal Pogue, Chris Winter – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Paul Johnson – keyboard technician
  • Norman Moore, Ria Lewerke – art direction
  • Peter Miller – photography
  • Sharona Sabbag – production coorinator

Track listing:

All tracks by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby, except where noted.

  1. A Night on the Town
  2. Carry the Water – Bruce Hornsby
  3. Fire on the Cross
  4. Barren Ground
  5. Across the River
  6. Stranded on Easy Street
  7. Stander on the Mountain – Bruce Hornsby
  8. Lost Soul – Bruce Hornsby
  9. Another Day – Bruce Hornsby
  10. Special Night
  11. These Arms of Mine