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Steven Frank Albini (July 22, 1962 – May 7, 2024) was an American musician and audio engineer who was a member of the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (1992–2024). He was the founder, owner, and principal engineer of the Chicago recording studio Electrical Audio. He recorded thousands of records, collaborating with acts including Nirvana, the Pixies, the Breeders, PJ Harvey, the Jesus Lizard and Page and Plant.
Albini was born in Pasadena, California, and raised in Missoula, Montana. After discovering the Ramones as a teenager, he played in a number of punk bands. He earned a degree in journalism at Northwestern University, Illinois, and he wrote for local zines before moving to Chicago, where he immersed himself in the punk scene. He formed Big Black in 1981, with whom he released two albums: Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987).
Following the dissolution of Big Black, Albini opened Electrical Audio and focused on engineering. He briefly played in Rapeman with David Wm. Sims and Rey Washam, releasing their only album, Two Nuns and a Pack Mule (1988). In 1992, he formed Shellac with Bob Weston and Todd Trainer, with whom he released several albums, including At Action Park (1994) and 1000 Hurts (2000).
Noted for his outspoken and blunt opinions, Albini was critical of local punk scenes and the music industry, which he saw as exploitative. He refused to take royalties on albums he worked on, operating on a fee-only basis. Albini died of a heart attack on May 7, 2024.
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Dennis Thompson (September 7, 1948 – May 8, 2024) was an American drummer known for playing with the 1960s–70s Detroit proto-punk/hard rock group MC5, which had a No. 82 US single with “Kick Out the Jams” and a No. 30 US album with the same name.
Thompson was born Dennis Tomich in Detroit in 1948. He began playing drums by the time he was nine years old. Joining the MC5 by 1965, Thompson was later given the nickname “Machine Gun” because of his “assault” style of fast, hard-hitting drumming that sonically resembles the sound of his namesake Thompson machine gun (commonly referred to as a “Tommy Gun”). His drumming pre-figured and influenced punk, metal, and hardcore punk drumming styles.
After MC5 broke up in the early 1970s, Thompson was a member of the 1975–1976 Los Angeles–based supergroup The New Order, the 1981 Australia-based supergroup New Race, The Motor City Bad Boys, and The Secrets. In 2001, he guested for Asmodeus X on the song “The Tiger” (St. Thomas Records).
Thompson suffered a heart attack in April 2024, and died in Taylor, Michigan, on May 8, 2024, at the age of 75. He was the final surviving member of the MC5.
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David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975 but had been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school and was a session musician long before its release. He was active as a session musician, playing on several albums by various artists.
One of the most commercially successful American saxophonists to earn prominence since the 1980s, Sanborn was described by critic Scott Yanow as “the most influential saxophonist on pop, R&B, and crossover players of the past 20 years.” He is often identified with radio-friendly smooth jazz, but expressed a disinclination for the genre and his association with it.
He has won six Grammy Awards and has had eight gold albums and one platinum album.
Sanborn won Grammy Awards for Voyeur (1981), Double Vision (1986), and the instrumental album Close Up (1988).
In 2004, Sanborn was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
Sanborn died of complications from prostate cancer in Tarrytown, New York, at age 78. He had been diagnosed with the disease in 2018.
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Darius Rucker (born May 13, 1966) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band released five studio albums with Rucker as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members of the band.
In 2009, he became the first Black American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and the second Black person to win any award from the association. His third album, Charleston, SC 1966, was released on October 12, 2010. The album included the number one country singles, “Come Back Song” and “This”. His fourth album, True Believers (2013), reached number 2 on the Billboard 200, and spawned the singles “True Believers”, “Wagon Wheel”, and “Radio”. His first country Christmas album, Home for the Holidays (2014) reached number 31 on the US Billboard 200. His sixth album, Southern Style (2014) reached number 6 on the Billboard 200, supported by the singles “Homegrown Honey” and “Southern Style”. His seventh and eighth studio albums, When Was the Last Time (2017) and Carolyn’s Boy (2023) followed thereafter.
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Lari Michele White Cannon (May 13, 1965 – January 23, 2018) was an American country musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her debut in 1988 after winning You Can Be a Star, a televised talent competition on The Nashville Network. After an unsuccessful stint on Capitol Records Nashville, she signed to RCA Records Nashville in 1993.
White released four albums for RCA between then and 1997: Lead Me Not, Wishes, Don’t Fence Me In, and the compilation The Best of Lari White. Wishes was certified gold and charted three top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: “That’s My Baby”, “Now I Know”, and “That’s How You Know (When You’re in Love)”. In 1998, she was the first artist signed to the former Lyric Street Records; she released Stepping Stone before leaving the label in 2000, and recorded all subsequent projects independently.
Her musical style is defined by her vocal delivery and a variety of musical influences including country, blues, and contemporary R&B. In addition to her own work, White has produced albums for Toby Keith and Billy Dean, and has written songs for Tammy Wynette, Travis Tritt, Danny Gokey, and Sarah Buxton. She also acted in the television pilot XXX’s and OOO’s, the 2000 movie Cast Away, and her own cabaret production My First Affair.
White married songwriter and song publisher Chuck Cannon on April 23, 1994. Prior to their marriage, Cannon had co-written her single “What a Woman Wants”; he would also write “That’s My Baby” and “That’s How You Know (When You’re in Love)”. The couple had three children together: daughters M’Kenzy and Kyra Ciel, and one son named Jaxon. White and Cannon founded the Skinny White Girl label on which White released her later albums; the two also built their own recording studio and founded a second label called Nashville Underground.
In September 2017, just months after the release of her New Loves and Old Friends EPs, White was diagnosed with cancer. Exploratory surgery in October 2017 revealed advanced peritoneal cancer. She died in Nashville, at the age of 52.
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Stevland Hardaway Morris (May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include R&B, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder’s use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of contemporary R&B. He also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive and consistent, in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder.
Wonder is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 100 million records worldwide. He has won 25 Grammy Awards (the most by a male solo artist) and one Academy Award (Best Original Song, for the 1984 film The Woman in Red). Wonder has been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday in the U.S. In 2009, he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and in 2014, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Raised on Radio is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Journey, released April 21, 1986 on the Columbia Records label. It is the only album to date not to feature founding bassist Ross Valory, who is replaced by session bassists Randy Jackson and Bob Glaub. Drummer Steve Smith contributed to a few tracks, but was subsequently replaced by Larrie Londin and Mike Baird.
The album spawned three top 20 singles in the US: “Girl Can’t Help It” (No. 17), “I’ll Be Alright Without You” (No. 14), and “Suzanne” (No. 17). It also spawned a top ten single “Be Good to Yourself” (No. 9) It went to No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, and it was certified double platinum in the USA.
- “Girl Can’t Help It” 3:50
- “Positive Touch” 4:16
- “Suzanne” 3:38
- “Be Good to Yourself” 3:51
- “Once You Love Somebody” 4:40
- “Happy to Give” 3:49
- “Raised on Radio” 3:49
- “I’ll Be Alright Without You” 4:49
- “It Could Have Been You” 3:37
- “The Eyes of a Woman” 4:32
- “Why Can’t This Night Go on Forever” 3:43
- “Girl Can’t Help It” (live) 4:17
- “I’ll Be Alright Without You” (live) 4:57
Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – guitars, backing vocals, keyboard on track 10, guitar synth
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, backing vocals, additional vocal co-production
Steve Smith – drums on tracks 2, 10 and 11
Randy Jackson – bass, backing vocals on tracks 1, 3-9, 12 and 13
Bob Glaub – bass on tracks 2, 10 and 11
Larrie Londin – drums on tracks 1, 3-9
Mike Baird – drums on tracks 12 and 13 (2006 CD reissue only)
Danny Hull – saxophone on tracks 2 and 7, harp on track 7
Steve Minkins – percussion on track 3
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Chicago XXXVIII: Born for This Moment is the twenty-sixth studio album by the American rock band Chicago and its thirty-eighth album overall. Released on July 15, 2022, it is its first new album of original material since 2014’s Chicago XXXVI: Now. “If This Is Goodbye” was released as a single on May 20, 2022.
- “Born for This Moment” 4:50
- “If This Is Goodbye” 3:49
- “Firecracker” 3:50
- “Someone Needed Me the Most” 5:17
- “Our New York Time” 4:16
- “Safer Harbours” 4:53
- “Crazy Idea” 3:17
- “Make a Man Outta Me” 4:14
- “She’s Right” 3:46
- “”The Mermaid” (Sereia Do Mar)” 3:34
- “You’ve Got to Believe” 3:12
- “For the Love” 4:02
- “If This Isn’t Love” 4:38
- “House on the Hill” 3:48
Robert Lamm – lead vocals (2, 5, 9, 10, 12, 14), keyboards and programming (1, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14), bass guitar (1, 7, 10, 14), acoustic bass guitar (12), background vocals (1-3, 5–7, 9, 11, 12)
Lee Loughnane – trumpet (1-11, 13), guitar, synthesizer bass, and background vocals (13), brass arrangement (13)
James Pankow – trombone (1-13), brass arrangements (1-9, 11), keyboards (8), trombone solo (10)
Walfredo Reyes Jr. – drums (1, 3–5, 7–11, 13, 14)
Ray Herrmann – saxophone (1-11, 13), flute solos (14)
Neil Donell – lead vocals (1-4, 6–8, 11, 13), background vocals (1-9, 11–13)
Ramon “Ray” Yslas – percussion (1, 3–5, 7–10, 12, 14)
Loren Gold – piano (13)
Keith Howland – guitars (8, 13), additional keyboards (8), electric guitar (9)[a]
Lou Pardini – background vocals (1, 3, 8)[a]
Brett Simons – bass guitar (2–5, 8, 9, 13)[a]
David Angell – violin (5, 10, 12)
Mike Aquino – electric guitar (5, 11)
CJ Baran – keyboards, programming, and additional vocals (2, 11), synthesizers (11)
Brian Barlow – percussion (6)
Kevin Bate – cello (5, 10, 12)
David Blamires – background vocals (6)
Tom Bukovac – lead guitar solo (3), lead guitar (5, 9), electric guitar (5), additional guitars (3, 9)
Chris Cameron – Hammond B3 organ (3, 7)
David Davidson – violin (5, 10, 12)
Richie Davis – electric guitar (3), guitar (7)
Simbret Dorch – background vocals (3)
Michael Francis – acoustic and electric guitars (6)
Simon Fryer – cello (6)
Bruce Gaitsch – guitars (12)
David R Hetherington – cello (6)
Tim Jessup – synthesizer programming and guitar (13)
Bobby Kimball – guest vocals (4)
Audrey King – cello (6)
Desislava Kondova – violin solo (12)
Hank Linderman – guitars (1, 10, 14), acoustic and twelve-string guitars (5), additional guitars (12), background vocals (5)
Guido Luciani – additional guitar (6)
Kevan McKenzie – drums (6)
Greg O’Connor – keyboards, programming and arrangements (3, 4)
Ray Parker – piano (6)
Rich Patterson – bass guitar (3, 12)
Joanna Pearl – background vocals (10)
Jim Peterik – guitars (1, 7), keyboards and additional guitars (5)
Tim Pierce – acoustic and electric guitars (4)
Ben Romans – keyboard and programming (2, 11), synthesizers (11)
John Rutledge – background vocals (6)
Lori Smith – background vocals (3)
Tom Szczesniak – bass guitar (6), cello arrangement (6)
Joe Thomas – background vocals (2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 12), synthesizers (2, 5, 7, 10), keyboards (5, 9), acoustic piano (5), bass guitar (11), B3 organ (9), Hoffner bass (2), organ (3), additional keyboards (3, 11), additional guitars (9), additional synthesizer (13), string arrangements (1, 5, 12)
John Van Eps – string arrangements (10, 14)
Paul Widner – cello (6)
Kristin Wilkinson – string arrangements (1, 5, 12), viola/leader (5, 10, 12)
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Signs of Life is the fourth studio album by American musician Billy Squier, released July 1984. It was co-produced by Meat Loaf’s songwriter Jim Steinman, replacing Reinhold Mack, who had produced Squier’s previous two records, Don’t Say No (1981) and Emotions in Motion (1982).
- “All Night Long” 4:51
- “Rock Me Tonite” 4:56
- “Eye on You” 4:42
- “Take a Look Behind Ya” 5:03
- “Reach For the Sky” 5:34
- “(Another) 1984” 4:56
- “Fall for Love” 4:52
- “Can’t Get Next to You” 4:36
- “Hand-Me-Downs” 4:22
- “Sweet Release” 6:15
Billy Squier – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, production
Jeff Golub – guitars, slide guitar
Alan St. Jon – keyboards, synthesizers
Doug Lubahn – bass guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Chouinard – drums
Larry Fast – synthesizers
Jimmy Maelen – percussion
Eric Troyer and Rory Dodd – additional vocals on “Fall for Love” and “Reach for the Sky”
Brian May – guitar solo on “(Another) 1984”
Alfa Anderson – additional vocals on “(Another) 1984”
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Traffic were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards (such as the Mellotron and harpsichord), sitar, and various reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz and improvisational techniques in their music.
The band had early success in the UK with their debut album Mr. Fantasy and non-album singles “Paper Sun”, “Hole in My Shoe”, and “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”.[4] Their follow-up self-titled 1968 album was their most successful in Britain and featured one of their most popular songs, the widely covered “Feelin’ Alright?”. Dave Mason left the band shortly after the album’s release, moving on to a solo career that produced a few minor hit songs in the 1970s. Traffic disbanded at the beginning of 1969, when Steve Winwood co-formed the supergroup Blind Faith. An album compiled from studio and live recordings, Last Exit, was released in 1969.
By 1970, Blind Faith had also broken up and Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood reformed Traffic, with John Barleycorn Must Die being the band’s comeback album. It became the band’s biggest success in the United States to that point, reaching number 5. Their next LP, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971), went platinum in the US and became popular on FM radio, establishing Traffic as a leading progressive rock band. 1973’s Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory and 1974’s When the Eagle Flies were further top 10 successes for the band in the US, and were both certified gold, though neither sold well in the UK. In 1974, the band broke up again. Steve Winwood went on to a successful solo career, with several hit singles and albums during the 1980s. Jim Capaldi also had some minor solo hits in the 1970s in his native UK but was less successful abroad. Chris Wood did sporadic session work until his death in 1983.
Winwood and Capaldi reformed as Traffic for a final album and tour in 1994. Traffic were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Jim Capaldi died the following year.
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John Barbata (April 1, 1945 – May 8, 2024) was an American drummer who was active especially in pop and rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s, both as a band member and as a session drummer. Barbata served as the drummer for The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jefferson Airplane (for its final album and tour only), and Jefferson Starship (from 1974 to 1978). Barbata claimed to have played on over 60 albums in an uncredited capacity.
At the age of 33, Barbata retired from the mainstream music industry and built a house and recording studio in the remote redwood village of Comptche, California. He continued making music locally. On July 3, 1981, Barbata married the Oklahoma native and artist, Angela Evans (1961–2016). They released two albums together, California and Oklahoma. In 1987, their daughter Leah was born. They later relocated to his late wife’s hometown of Ada, Oklahoma, where Barbata resided up to his death. In 2016, after 34 years of marriage, his wife died from cancer. Barbata continued to play music, often performing with former band members or his singer-songwriter daughter.
Barbata died at the age of 79.
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Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder. It was released on September 28, 1976, by Tamla Records, a division of Motown. The double album has been regarded by music journalists as the culmination of Wonder’s “classic period” of recording. The album was recorded primarily at Crystal Sound studio in Hollywood, with some sessions recorded at the Record Plant in Hollywood, the Record Plant in Sausalito, and The Hit Factory in New York City; final mixing was conducted at Crystal Sound.
By 1974, Wonder was one of the most successful figures in popular music; Wonder’s previous albums Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness’ First Finale were all back-to-back critical successes. However, by the end of 1975, Wonder seriously considered quitting the music industry and planned to emigrate to Ghana to work with handicapped children. Plans for a farewell concert had begun, but Wonder subsequently changed his mind and signed a new contract with Motown on August 5, 1975. This outlined a seven-year, seven-album, $37 million deal with full artistic control. At the time, it was the biggest recording deal in history.
Songs in the Key of Life was released as a double LP with a four-song bonus EP. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart becoming only the third album to achieve that feat and the first by an American artist at the time. Both the lead single “I Wish” and follow-up single “Sir Duke” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Songs in the Key of Life spent thirteen consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the album with the most weeks at number one during the year. It was the second best-selling album of 1977 in the US. In 2005, Songs in the Key of Life was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Songs in the Key of Life won Album of the Year at the 19th Grammy Awards. It is the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Wonder’s career. Widely regarded as Wonder’s magnum opus and one of the greatest albums in the history of recorded music, many musicians have remarked on the quality of the album and its influence on their own work. Additionally, notable musicians have cited it as the greatest album of all time. It was voted number 89 in Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums and ranked number 4 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2002, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2005, Songs in the Key of Life was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress, which deemed it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
- “Love’s in Need of Love Today” 7:06
- “Have a Talk With God” 2:42
- “Village Ghetto Land” 3:25
- “Contusion” 3:46
- “Sir Duke” 3:52
- “I Wish” 4:12
- “Knocks Me Off My Feet” 3:36
- “Pastime Paradise” 3:27
- “Summer Soft” 4:14
- “Ordinary Pain” 6:16
- “Isn’t She Lovely” 6:34
- “Joy Inside My Tears” 6:30
- “Black Man” 8:27
- “Ngiculela – Es Una Historia – I Am Singing” 3:48
- “If It’s Magic” 3:12
- “As” 7:08
- “Another Star” 8:08
- “Saturn” 4:54
- “Ebony Eyes” 4:11
- “All Day Sucker” 5:06
- “Easy Goin’ Evening (My Mama’s Call)” 3:55
Stevie Wonder – lead vocals, musician, arrangement, composer, producer
Nathan Watts – bass guitar (4-6, 16, 17, 19, 21), percussion (14), handclaps (16)
Raymond Pounds – drums (4-6)
Greg Phillinganes – keyboards (4, 11, 12, 18)
Michael Sembello – lead guitar (4, 5, 10, 18, 20)
Ben Bridges – rhythm guitar (4, 5, 9, 18, 20)
Eddie “Bongo” Brown – collinga (1)
Shirley Brewer – backing vocals (4, 14), “Ordinary Pain” reply vocals (10), handclaps (11)
Josie James – backing vocals (4, 17)
Michael Gray – backing vocals (4)
Artece May – backing vocals (4), handclaps (11)
Hank Redd – alto saxophone (5, 6, 10, 13, 17)
Trevor Lawrence – tenor saxophone (5, 6, 17)
Raymond Maldonado – trumpet (5, 6, 17), percussion (8)
Steve Madaio – trumpet (5, 6, 13, 17)
Renee Hardaway – backing vocals (6, 14)
Bobbye Hall – percussion (8)
West Angeles Church of God Choir – backing vocals (8)
Hare Krishna – backing vocals (8)
Ronnie Foster – organ (9)
Nastee Latimer – percussion (9)
Minnie Riperton – backing vocals (10)
Mary Lee Whitney – backing vocals (10, 16)
Deniece Williams – backing vocals (10)
Syreeta Wright – backing vocals (10)
Linda Lawrence – “Ordinary Pain” reply backing vocals (10)
Terry Hendricks – “Ordinary Pain” reply backing vocals (10)
Sundray Tucker – “Ordinary Pain” reply backing vocals (10)
Charity McCrary – “Ordinary Pain” reply backing vocals (10)
Linda McCrary – “Ordinary Pain” reply backing vocals (10)
Madelaine “Gypsie” Jones – “Ordinary Pain” reply backing vocals (10)
Josette Valentino – handclaps (11, 16), percussion (14)
Dave Henson – handclaps (11, 16)
Brenda Barrett – handclaps (11)
Colleen Carleton – handclaps (11)
Carole Cole – handclaps (11)
Nelson Hayes – handclaps (11)
Edna Orso – handclaps (11)
Tucker – handclaps (11)
Susaye Greene – backing vocals (12)
George Bohanon – trombone (13)
Glenn Ferris – trombone (13)
Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble – verbal replies (13)
Amale Mathews – percussion (14)
Charles Brewer – percussion (14)
John Fischbach – percussion (14)
Marietta Waters – percussion (14)
Nelson Hayes – percussion (14)
Dorothy Ashby – harp (15)
Greg Brown – drums (16)
Herbie Hancock – keyboards (16), handclaps (16)
Dean Parks – guitar (16)
Yolanda Simmons – handclaps (16)
Bobbi Humphrey – flute (17)
George Benson – guitar, backing vocals (17)
Nathan Alford, Jr. – percussion (17)
Carmello Hungria Garcia – timbales (17)
Jim Horn – saxophone (19)
Peter “Sneaky Pete” Kleinow – steel guitar (19)
W. G. Snuffy Walden – lead guitar (20)
Carolyn Dennis – backing vocals (20)
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Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone is the 11th studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. The double album was released on September 30, 2014. It is the first album on Williams’ own Highway 20 Records label. The song “Compassion”, from which the album title is derived, is based on a poem by her father, Miller Williams.
The album won the Americana Music Award for Album of the Year in 2015, while the track “East Side of Town” was nominated for Song of the Year. In 2017, the song “When I Look at the World” was covered by Kaitlin Doubleday as her character Jessie Caine on season five of the TV series Nashville.
The album received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83 based on 19 reviews, which indicates “universal acclaim”. “Though this doesn’t always sound like an album where Williams is challenging herself musically, for a musician who has long believed in the power of nuance, this is an album that feels unerringly right for her, full of sweet and sour blues, acoustic pondering, and simple, bare bones rock & roll that slips into the groove with Williams’ literate but unpretentious songs,” writes Mark Deming at AllMusic. The New York Times says, “On past albums Ms. Williams has portrayed herself at moments of rage, excess and grief; now she prefers stability. Her songs are fully aware of wounds and pitfalls, but they’re more likely to be looking back or looking outward.” Tom Moon writes at NPR, “She’s always been able to conjure brokenhearted misery from a single note; now, she can ramp up to fury that quickly, too. And resignation. And let’s face it: In terms of pure expression, no singer in popular music can touch Williams when she’s calling from the lonely outskirts of Despairville. She sounds like it’s her permanent residence, that place down deep where the spirit meets the bone.”
- “Compassion” 2:57
- “Protection” 4:47
- “Burning Bridges” 4:49
- “East Side of Town” 4:56
- “West Memphis” 5:44
- “Cold Day in Hell” 5:16
- “Foolishness” 5:57
- “Wrong Number” 5:01
- “Stand Right by Each Other” 3:58
- “It’s Gonna Rain” 4:18
- “Something Wicked This Way Comes” 5:45
- “Big Mess” 5:32
- “When I Look at the World” 4:56
- “Walk On” 4:11
- “Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)” 5:05
- “Everything But the Truth” 5:11
- “This Old Heartache” 5:03
- “Stowaway in Your Heart” 3:27
- “One More Day” 6:21
- “Magnolia” 9:51
Lucinda Williams – vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Joe White – electric guitar, harmonica
Greg Leisz – acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel guitar, backing vocals
Val McCallum – electric guitar
Stuart Mathis – electric guitar
Jonathan Wilson – guitar
Patrick Warren – chamberlin, organ, piano, pump organ, autoharp, keyboards
Ian “Mac” McLagan – Wurlitzer, piano
Davey Faragher – bass
Pete Thomas – drums and percussion
Gia Ciambotti – backing vocals
Doug Pettibone – electric guitar, backing vocals
Jakob Dylan – harmony vocals
Bill Frisell – electric guitar
Bob Glaub – bass
Sebastian Steinberg – bass
David Sutton – bass
David Ralicke – saxophone, euphonium
Jordan Katz – trumpet
Butch Norton – drums
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