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The Staple Singers: Be Attidude: Respect Yoirself

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On February 14, 1972, “Stax” label released “Be Altitude: Respect Yourself”, the 19th Staple Singers (The) album. It was recorded 1971 – 1972, at “Muscle Shoals Sound Studios” in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, “Ardent Studios” in Memphis, Tennessee, and was produced by Al Bell.

Personnel:

  • Mavis Staples – vocals
  • Pops Staples – vocals
  • Cleotha Staples – harmony and backing vocals
  • Yvonne Staples – harmony and backing vocals

Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

  • Jimmy Johnson – guitar
  • David Hood – bass guitar
  • Barry Beckett – keyboards, Wurlitzer electric piano
  • Roger Hawkins – drums
  • Staple Sisters – harmony and backing vocals
  • Terry Manning – guitar, lead guitar, fuzz guitar, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, vibraphones, marimba, harmonica
  • Eddie Hinton – guitar
  • Raymond Banks – guitar
  • The Memphis Horns (including Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love) – horns
  • Ben Cauley – horns
  • Al Bell – arrangements
  • Johnny Allen – arrangements
  • Terry Manning – engineer
  • Jerry Masters – engineer
  • Ralph Rhodes – engineer

Track listing:

  1. This World – William Friedman, Herb Schapiro
  2. Respect Yourself – Luther Ingram, Mack Rice
  3. Name the Missing Word – Horner Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Raymond Jackson
  4. I’ll Take You There – Alvertis Isbell
  5. This Old Town (People in This Town) – Don Convay, Wilson Pickett, William Stevenson
  6. We the People – Booker T. Jones, Carl Smith
  7. Are You Sure – Homer Banks, Raymond Jackson
  8. Who Do You Think You Are (Jesus Christ the Superstar)? – Pops Staples
  9. I’m Just Another Soldier – Homer Banks, Raymond Jackson
  10. Who – Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom

Kid Rock: Bad Reputation

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On March 21, 2022, “Top Dog Records” label released “Bad Reputation”, the twelfth Kid Rock studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2021, at “The Allen Roadhouse” in Clarkston, Michigan, “Dixie Ridge” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Kid Rock.

Personnel:

  • Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie Sr.) – acoustic guitar, keyboards, B3 Organ, drums, percussion, programming, turntables, backing vocals
  • Monster Truck
  • Ed Jurdi – acoustic guitar
  • Gordy Quist – acoustic guitar
  • T.J. Watson – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Dean James – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Gannin Arnold – electric guitar
  • Gordy Quist – electric guitar
  • Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
  • Nathan Young – electric guitar
  • Rob McNelley – electric guitar
  • Vinnie Dombroski – electric guitar
  • Nick Bockrath – electric guitar
  • Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
  • Russ Phal – pedal steel guitar
  • Gordan Mote – piano
  • Jim “Moose” Brown – piano, B3 Organ
  • Dave Cohen – piano, B3 Organ, keyboards, synths
  • Jimmie “Bones” Trombly – piano, keyboards, B3 Organ, harmonica
  • Peter Keys – keyboards
  • Jim Jonsin – keyboards
  • Marlon Young – bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitar
  • Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
  • Alison Prestwood – bass guitar
  • Scott Davis – bass guitar
  • Mark Hill – bass guitar
  • Tony Lucido – bass guitar
  • David Roe Rorick – bass, drums
  • Jerry Roe – drums
  • Greg Morrow – drums
  • Evan Hutchings – drums
  • Miles McPherson – drums
  • John “Rook” Cappelletty – drums
  • Richard Millsap – drums
  • Mark Douthit – saxophone
  • Max Abrams – saxophone
  • Tim Watson – fiddle
  • Herschel Boone – backing vocals
  • Shannon Curfman – backing vocals
  • Gretchen Wilson – backing vocals
  • Robert James – backing vocals
  • Perry Coleman – backing vocals
  • Kate Falcon – backing vocals
  • Victoria Camp – backing vocals
  • Amanda Gene Rowland – backing vocals
  • Stacy Michelle – backing vocals
  • Peter G Abbott – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Kid Rock.

  1. Don’t Tell Me How to Live
  2. We the People
  3. My Kind of Country
  4. Bad Reputation
  5. Never Quit
  6. Shakedown
  7. Rockin’
  8. The Last Dance
  9. See You Again
  10. Still Somethin’
  11. She’s Your Baby (Now Rock Her)
  12. Never Enough
  13. Everything to Me
  14. Cold Beer
  15. Ala-Fuckin-Bama
  16. Am What I Am
  17. The Nashville I Know
  18. Fifty

Ellen Mcllwane: We the People

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In January 1973, “Polydor” label released “We the People”, the third Ellen McIlwaine album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Record Plant Studio”, “Carnegie Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Peter Seigel.

Personnel:

  • Ellen McIlwaine – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Don Payne – bass
  • Don Moore – bass
  • Jimmy Madison – drums
  • Jerry Mercer – drums
  • Candido – conga
  • Colin Tilton – saxophone
  • West 44th Street Noise Choir – backing vocals
  • The Persuasions – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Ellen McIlwaine except where noted.

  1. Ain’t No Two Ways About It (It’s Love)
  2. All to You
  3. Sliding
  4. Never Tell Your Mother She’s Out of Tune – Jack Bruce, Pete Brown
  5. Farther Along – traditional
  6. I Don’t Want to Play
  7. Underground River
  8. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) – Al Fields, Tom Delaney, Timmie Rogers
  9. Jimmy Jean
  10. We the People

Guitar Shorty: We The People

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On August 15, 2006, “Alligator” label released “We the People”, the seventh Guitar Shorty (David Kearney) studio album. It was recorded in 2006 and was produced by Jerry “Wyzard” Seay and Brian Brinkerhoff.

Personnel:

  • Guitar Shorty — vocals, guitar
  • Jake Andrews — rhythm guitar
  • John Thomas — keyboards
  • Wyzard — bass, acoustic guitar
  • Alvino Bennett — drums
  • Larry Goetz — engineer, mixing
  • James Bennett — engineer assistant
  • Bruce Iglauer— mastering
  • Dan Monick — photography
  • Kevin Niemiec — package design
  • Dan Stout — mastering
  • Michael Trossman — logo

Track listing:

  1. We the People – Guitar Shorty, Harms
  2. What Good Is Life? – Jerry Wyzard Seay, Green, Guitar Shorty
  3. I Got Your Number – Bob Halligan, Jr.
  4. Runaway Train – Tommy McCoy
  5. Down That Road Again – Guitar Shorty, Harms, Ross
  6. Fine Cadillac – Grimaldi
  7. Can’t Get Enough – Jerry Wyzard Seay
  8. A Hurt So Old – Halligan
  9. Who Needs It? – Williams
  10. Blues in My Blood – Merv Goldsworthy
  11. Cost of Livin’ – Guitar Shorty, Jerry Wyzard Seay
  12. Sonic Boom – Harms

 

Ellen McIlwaine: We the People

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In January 1973, “Polydor” label released “We the People”, the third Ellen McIlwaine album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Record Plant Studios” and “Carnegie Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Peter K. Seigel.

Personnel:

  • Ellen McIlwaine- vocals, guitar, piano
  • Don Payne, Don Moore – bass
  • Jimmy Madison, Jerry Mercer- drums
  • Colin Tilton – saxophone
  • Candido- conga
  • West 44th Street Noise Choir – backing vocals
  • The Persuasions- backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Ellen McIlwaine except where noted.

  1. Ain’t No Two Ways About It (It’s Love)
  2. All to You
  3. Sliding
  4. Never Tell Your Mother She’s Out of Tune – Jack Bruce, Pete Brown
  5. Farther Along – traditional
  6. I Don’t Want to Play
  7. Underground River
  8. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) – Al Fields, Tom Delaney, Timmie Rogers
  9. Jimmy Jean
  10. We the People

Ulver: Childhood’s End

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On May 28, 2012, “Kscope” label released “Childhood’s End”, the ninth Ulver studio album. It was recorded in 2008 and 2011, at “Crystal Canyon Studios” in Oslo, and was produced by Kristoffer Rygg, Tore Ylwizaker, Jørn H. Sværen and Daniel O’Sullivan. Album cover features a photograph by Hoang Van Danh of Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack by the South Vietnamese Air Force in 1972. The album is a collection of covers of “60s psychedelic tracks.

Personnel:

  • Kristoffer Rygg- vocals, programming
  • Tore Ylwizaker – keyboards, programming
  • Jørn H. Sværen – miscellaneous
  • Daniel O’Sullivan- guitar, bass, keyboards
  • Tomas Pettersen, Lars Pedersen – drums
  • Alexander Kloster-Jensen – electric guitar
  • Lars Christian Folkvord – bass
  • Espen Jørgensen, Trond Mjøen – electric and acoustic guitar
  • Mats Engen – bass, vocals, backing vocals
  • Sisi Sumbundu, Ingvild Langgård – vocals
  • Anders Møller – tambourine, shaker, congas
  • Ole Alexander Halstensgård – electronic effects

Track listing:

  1. Bracelets of Fingers (The Pretty Things) – Dick Taylor, Phil May, Wally Walter
  2. Everybody’s Been Burned (The Byrds) – David Crosby
  3. The Trap (Bonniwell’s Music Machine) – Sean Bonniwell
  4. In the Past (We the People) – Wayne Proctor
  5. Today (Jefferson Airplane) – Marty Balin, Paul Kantner
  6. Can You Travel in the Dark Alone? (Gandalf) – Peter Sando
  7. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (The Electric Prunes) – Annette Tucker, Nancie Mantz
  8. Street Song (The 13th Floor Elevators) – Stacy Sutherland
  9. 66-5-4-3-2-1 (The Troggs) – Reg Presley
  10. Dark Is the Bark (The Left Banke) – George Cameron, Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn
  11. Magic Hollow (The Beau Brummels) – Ron Elliott, Sal Valentino
  12. Soon There’ll Be Thunder (Common People) – Denny, Jerrald Robinett
  13. Velvet Sunsets (Music Emporium) – William Cosby, Thom Wade
  14. Lament of the Astral Cowboy (Curt Boettcher) – Curt Boettcher
  15. I Can See the Light (The Fleur de Lys) – Bryn Haworth, Gordon Haskell
  16. Where Is Yesterday (The United States of America) – Dorothy Moskowitz, Ed Bogas, Gordon Marron