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John Prine: For Better, Or Worse

On September 30, 2016, “Oh Boy” label released “For Better, or Worse”, the seventeenth John Prine studio album. It was recorded January – February 2016. 

Personnel:

  • John Prine – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Mark Howard – acoustic guitar, mandolin
  • Susan Tedeschi – vocals, electric guitar
  • Jason Wilber – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Lloyd Green – pedal steel guitar
  • Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar, resonator guitar
  • Pat McLaughlin – mandolin
  • Tim O’Brien – mandolin, fiddle
  • Pete Wasner – piano, Wurlitzer piano
  • Kirk “Jelly Roll” Johnson – harmonica
  • Shad Cobb – fiddle
  • Dave Jacques – upright bass
  • Kenneth Blevins – drums
  • Iris DeMent – vocals
  • Alison Krauss – vocals
  • Miranda Lambert – vocals
  • Kathy Mattea – vocals
  • Kacey Musgraves – vocals
  • Fiona Prine – vocals
  • Amanda Shires – vocals
  • Morgane Stapleton – vocals
  • Holly Williams – vocals
  • Lee Ann Womack – vocals

Track listing:

  1. Who’s Gonna Take the Garbage Out – Johnny Tillotson, Teddy Wilburn
  2. Storm Never Last – Jessi Colter
  3. Falling in Love Again – Friedrich Hollaender, Sammy Lerner
  4. Color of the Blues – George Jones, Lawton Williams
  5. I’m Tellin You – Billy Hughes
  6. Remember Me (When Candlelights Are Gleaming) – Scott Wiseman
  7. Look at Us – Max T. Barnes, Vince Gill
  8. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music) – Joe Maphis, Rose Lee Maphis
  9. Fifteen Years Ago – Raymond Smith
  10. Cold Cold Heart – Hank Williams
  11. Dreaming My Dreams with You – Allen Reynolds
  12. Mental Cruelty – Buck Owens, Dixie Davis, Larry Davis
  13. Mr. & Mrs. used to Be – Joe Deaton
  14. My Happiness – Betty Peterson, Borney Bergantine
  15. Just Waitin’ – Hank Williams

Steve Earle: Transcedental Blues

On June 6, 2000, “E-Squared” label released “Transcendental Blues”, the ninth Steve Earle studio album. It was recorded in 2000, and was produced by Ray Kennedy and Steve Earle.

Personnel:

  • Steve Earle – vocals, acoustic and 12 string acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, guitars, mandolin, harmonium, mini-Moog
  • Tom Littlefield – vocals
  • Stacey Earle – vocals
  • Tim O’Brien – vocals, mandolin
  • Doug Lancio – electric guitars
  • David Steele – electric guitar, resonator guitar, bouzouki, mandola
  • Jim Murray – gut string guitar
  • Mary Shannon – banjo
  • Darrell Scott – vocals, banjo
  • Bill Wright – bouzouki
  • Benmont Tench – organ, piano
  • Sharon Shannon – accordion
  • Liz Kane – fiddle
  • Yvonne Kane – fiddle
  • Casey Driessen – fiddle
  • Dan Gillis – tin whistle
  • Kellee Looney – bass
  • Dan Metz – bass
  • James Blennerhassett – upright bass
  • Dennis Crouch – upright bass
  • Noel Bridgeman – drums
  • Ron Vance – drums
  • Patrick Earle – drums, percussion
  • Will Rigby – drums, percussion
  • Joyce Redmond – bodhran
  • The Love Sponge – Kristin Wilkinson – viola, John Catchings – cello, David Angell – violin, David Davidson – violin
  • Kristin Wilkinson – conductor, string arrangements
  • Tony Fitzpatrick – album artwork

Track listing:

All tracks written by Steve Earle

  1. Transcendental Blues
  2. Everyone’s in Love with You
  3. Another Town
  4. I Can Wait
  5. The Boy Who Never Cried
  6. Steve’s Last Ramble
  7. The Galway Girl
  8. Lonelier Than This
  9. Wherever I Go
  10. When I Fall
  11. I Don’t Want to Lose You Yet
  12. Halo ‘Round the Moon
  13. Until the Day I Die
  14. All My Life
  15. Over Yonder (Jonathan’s Song)

Sara Watkins: Same

On April 7, 2009, “Nonesuch” label released the self-titled, debut Sara Watkins album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009, at “Sound Emporium” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Henson Recording Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by John Paul Jones.

Personnel:

  • Sara Watkins – vocals, fiddle, ukulele
  • Sean Watkins – acoustic and electric guitar, harmony vocals
  • Jon Brion – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Gillian Welch – electric guitar, harmony vocals
  • Chris Eldridge – guitar, harmony vocals
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
  • John Paul Jones – bass, mandolin, piano, organ, electric piano, harmony vocals
  • Billy Cardine – dobro
  • Michael Witcher – dobro
  • Ronnie McCoury – mandolin
  • Chris Thile – mandola
  • Benmont Tench – piano
  • Byron House – bass
  • Mark Schatz – bass
  • Sebastian Steinberg – bass
  • David Rawlings – drums, electric guitar, harmony vocals
  • Rayna Gellert – fiddle
  • Pete Thomas – drums
  • Luke Bulla – harmony vocals
  • Claire Lynch – harmony vocals
  • Jenny Anne Mannan – harmony vocals
  • Tim O’Brien – harmony vocals
  • Aoife O’Donovan – harmony vocals
  • Dave Sinko – recording, mixing
  • Eric Conn – mastering
  • Wendy Stamberger – design
  • Jeremy Cowart – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Sara Watkins, except where noted.

  1. All This Time
  2. Long Hot Summer Days – John Hartfoed
  3. My Friend
  4. Freiderick
  5. Same Mistakes – Jon Brion
  6. Any Old Time – Jimmie Rodgers
  7. Pony – Tom Waits
  8. Lord Won’t You Help Me – Norman Blake
  9. Jefferson
  10. Give Me Jesus
  11. Bygones
  12. Too Much – David Garza
  13. Will We Go
  14. Where Will You Be