Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Jeanne Cherhal - L’An 40

 




Jeanne Cherhal - L’An 40
Barclay 779 273-4 (2019)




Track Listing:
1. L’An 40
2. Fleur De Peau
3. Le Feu Aux Joues
4. Fausse Parisienne
5. Racines D'Or
6. Soixante-Neuf
7. Ton Souvenir Me Prend Ce Soir
8. César
9. L’Art D'Aimer
10. Un Adieu







Personnel:
Jim Keltner, Matt Chamberlain - Drums
Jeanne Cherhal - Arranger, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Sébastien Hoog - Bass, Arranger, Producer
Carmen Carter, Josef Powells, Julia Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Táta Vega, Terry Young - Backing Vocals
Nicolas Tuaillon - Flute
Camille Lebréquier - Horn
Rémy Galichet - Trombone
Nicolas Puisais - Trumpet, Flugelhorn










Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Nick Lowe - Party Of Four






Nick Lowe - Party Of Four
Yep Roc Records ‎(2020)



Track Listing:
1. You Stabbed Me in the Front
2. Rocket Coast
3. Rocky Road (Demo)
4. Don't Think About Her (Demo)





Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums
Nick Lowe - bass, vocals
Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin
Bill Kirchan, Dave Edmunds - electric guitar
Paul Carrack - organ, piano
Austin De Leona - piano, acoustic guitar
Ray Brown - string bass
Most of the above - backing vocals





Friday, June 26, 2020

Jim On Blake On Jim



“He’s so advanced as a musician, but he’s just a regular person, too,” says Jim Keltner, the fabled 78-year-old drummer who ranks as one of Mills’s lifelong icons and has become one of his most consistent collaborators. “He’s so good that you can’t forget what it would be like to be his age and be one of his peers — you either have to love the guy, or be very jealous.”

Keltner remembers Mills from one of those early sessions, when they both played parts on a Jakob Dylan album that were never used. (Keltner had played with Dylan’s father for decades.) The drummer was floored then by the eager guitarist, nearly half a century his junior. For Mills, it was “like meeting someone you have met before in dreams.” But Mills felt as though he had flubbed his time with his idol, trying to impress the drummer by incorporating some of the rhythmic tricks he’d learned from old Keltner records. “I kept stepping on his toes by playing like him, by speaking the same language,” remember Mills.

Keltner now talks of Mills with near-parental pride. He brags about the text chain they share (“The M.O.A.T.,” for The Mother of All Threads) with Los Angeles session aces such as Benmont Tench. He wishes Mills were old enough to have played alongside him in the Traveling Wilburys.





Sunday, June 21, 2020

Guthrie Thomas - Ghost Towns






Guthrie Thomas - Ghost Towns
Mainstreet CD MS-1952 (1999)




Track Listing:
1. I’ll Be Lucky
2. I Can't Count The Times
3. Melissa
4. My Love Won't Fade Away
5. Love Is Hard To Find
6. You And Me
7. Right By My Side
8. If You've Got A Moment
9. Puppet On A String
10. Tonight
11. Captain Jack
12. Sweet Virginia







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums
Guthrie Thomas - vocals, guitar, producer
Albert Cecere - producer
Byron Berline - fiddle
Carol Dawson - backing vocals
David Foster - bass
David Paich - keyboards, piano 
John Hartford - banjo
Johnny Gall - keyboards
Lee Montgomery - backing vocals
Marc Edelstein - bass
Mark Dawson - guitar
Nicolette Larson - backing vocals
Ringo Starr - drums
Steve Cropper - guitar
Tom Brumley - pedal steel guitar
Waddy Wachtel - guitar





Saturday, June 20, 2020

Jim And Ted






Keltner said, ‘Ted, I had no idea you could play drums like that. You’re my new favorite drummer, man.’  And he gave him a hug.

“Ted said that was the ultimate musical compliment he ever got in his life, because it came from Jim Keltner, the drummer he thought was the best of the best of all the amazing drummers there.”

Taken from Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music.







Phil Driscoll - I Exalt Thee






Phil Driscoll - I Exalt Thee
Sparrow Records SPR 1074 (1983)





1. I Exalt Thee
2. Wings As Eagles
3. Let The Whole World Know
4. Our God Reigns
5. Amazing Grace
6. Hosanna
7. El Shaddai
8. Everlasting Life
9. The Lord's Prayer








Personnel:
Jim Keltner, Buster Phillips - Drums
Phil Driscoll - Trumpet, Flugel Horn, Piccolo Trumpet, Producer, Arranger
Ricky Keller - Bass
Mike Deasy - Guitar
Jerry Cleveland - Keyboards
Alex Acuna, Laran Philpott - Congas, Timbales, Percussion
Lari Goss - Guitar, Background Vocals. Keyboards, Producer, Arranger
Roni Gross, Terry Blackwood, Donna McElroy, Sharon Scott, Beverly Baxter, Melodie Tunney, Wendy Hofheimer - Background Vocals