BATTEUR #97 January 1997

V/A - The Irishman OST

V/A - The Irishman OST
Sony Masterworks (2019)





Track Listing:
1. In the Still of the Night - The Five Satins
2. Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
3. I Hear You Knockin' - Smiley Lewis
4. The Fat Man - Fats Domino
5. El Negro Zumbon - Flo Sandon's
6. Le Grisbi - Jean Wetzel
7. Delicado - Percy Faith & His Orchestra
8. Have I Sinned - Donnie Elbert
9. Theme for The Irishman - Robbie Robertson
10. Song Of The Barefoot Contessa - Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
11. A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins with Ray Conniff
12. Canadian Sunset - Eddie Heywood
13. Honky Tonk, Pt. 1 - Bill Doggett
14. Melancholy Serenade - Jackie Gleason
15. Qué Rico el Mambo - Pérez Prado Orchestra
16. Cry - Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
17. Sleep Walk - Santo E Johnny
18. The Time Is Now - The Golddiggers
19. Al Di La - Jerry Vale featuring The Latin Casino All Stars
20. Pretend You Don't See Her - The Latin Casino All Stars







Personnel on Track #9:
Jim Keltner - drums
Robbie Robertson - guitar
Frederic Yonnet - harmonica
Randy Kerber - piano
George Doering - guitar
Reggie Hamilton - bass

JESSE'S OFFICE (Ep #18) "Secrets of a Session Drummer"

Martha Reeves - Power Of Love/Stand By Me

Martha Reeves - Power Of Love/Stand By Me
MCA Records MCS 7302 (1974)





Side A
1. Power Of Love


Side B:
1. Stand By Me






Personnel:
Jim Keltner - Drums
Martha Reeves - Vocals
James Jamerson - Bass
Dean Parks, Dennis Coffey - Guitar
Joe Sample - Piano
Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews - Backing Vocals
Richard Perry - Producer

David Garfield - VOX Outside The Box

David Garfield - VOX Outside The Box
Creatchy Records CR-026 (2019)





Track Listing:
1. Winning
2. Roxanne
3. I Lied
4. Sea Of Truth
5. Lovin' You
6. Fame
7. Rocket Man (Acoustic)
8. Fragile
9. Rock Steady
10. One Like You
11. Heart Of Mine
12. Won't Back Down
13. I Can't Let Go Now
14. Strawberry Fields
15. Rocket Man (Electric)




Personnel:
David Garfield : Piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Synthesizers, Organ, Producer, Arranger


01 - Winning

Featuring - Alex Ligertwood : Vocals
Will Lee : Bass & Vocals
Mike Finnigan : Organ & Vocals
James Harrah : Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Andy Bassford : Additional Rhythm Guitars
Lenny Castro : Percussion
Steve Ferrone : Drums & Timbales

02 - Roxanne

Featuring - Robbie Wyckoff : Vocals
Joe Porcaro & Abraham Laboriel Jr. : Drums
Chuck Berghofer : Acoustic Bass
Felix Nuñez : Electric Bass
Bill Champlin : Organ & Vocals
Carmen Grillo & Abraham Laboriel Jr. : Vocals
Chuck Findley : Trumpet
Tim Pierce, Michael Thompson & Tony Pulizzi : Guitars
Lenny Castro : Congas & Finger Snaps

03 - I Lied

Featuring : J. Paris : Vocals
Dan Dugmore : Pedal Steel Guitar
Brent Mason : Guitars
Tony Maiden : Additional Guitar
Jimmie Lee Sloas : Bass
Shannon Forrest : Drums & Percussion
Matt Weiss : Programming
Strings Arranged & Conducted by John Clayton, Joel Derouin - Concertmaster
String Players :
Violins : Charlie Bisharat, Mario De Leon, Erik Arvinder, Songa Lee, Kevin Connolly, Robin Olson, Michele Richards, Bob Peterson, Marisa Kuny, Katia Popov, Jenny Takamatsu, Neel Hammond & John Wittenberg
Violas : Andrew Picken, Mike Whitsun, Caroline Buckman, Kate Reddish, Karei Prescott & Leah Katz
Celli : Jodi Burnett, Trevor Handy, Jennifer Kuhn & Dane Little

04 - Sea Of Truth

Featuring - Ari Hest : Lead vocals
Will Lee : Bass & Vocals
Lilliana de Los Reyes, Kenya Hattaway & Leslie Smith : Additional Vocals
Benmont Tench : Organ
Tim Pierce : Lead Guitar
James Harrah : Guitar
Steve Ferrone : Drums

05 - Lovin' You

Co-Produced by Steve Sykes & Daniel Kier
Featuring - Lilliana de Los Reyes : Lead & Backing vocals
Walfredo Reyes Jr. : Drums, Percussion & Vocals
Walfredo de Los Reyes : Timbales & Güro
Daniel de Los Reyes : Congas & Vocals
Kamar de Los Reyes : Vocals
Paul Jackson Jr. : Guitar
John Pena : Bass
San Miguel Perez : Tres & Vocals
Jason Scheff, Terry Wood, George Grunwald : Backing vocals
Jimmy de Martini : Violin
All Horns Arranged & Recorded by Carlos Sosa & The Grooveline Horns :
Carlos Sosa : Saxophones
Raul Vallejo : Trombone
Paul Armstrong : Trumpet

06 - Fame

Co-Produced by Jim Keltner
Featuring - Jim Keltner : Drums
Bruce Bentley & Alex Ligertwood : Vocals
Doug Bossi : Lead Guitar & Vocals
Nom Kwest : Rap
Greg Phillinganes : Hohner Clavinet
Tim Pierce, Tony Pulizzi & JJ Blair : Guitars
Jimmy Earl : Bass
Lenny Castro : Percussion

07 - Rocket Man (Acoustic)

Featuring - Jason Scheff : Lead vocals & Bass
Mike Finnigan : Organ
Jim Keltner : Drums
Isaiah Sharkey : Guitar
Alex Ligertwood : Additional Vocals

08 - Fragile

Featuring - Bruce Hamada & Michael McDonald : Vocals
Jim Stevens : Sax
Diego Figueiredo : Acoustic Guitar
San Miguel Perez : Tres
Kevin Ricard : Percussion
Vinnie Colaiuta : Drums
Carlito Del Puerto : Acoustic Bass
Michael Landau : Guitar
Strings Arranged & Conducted by John Clayton, Joel Derouin - Concertmaster
String Players :
Violins : Charlie Bisharat, Mario De Leon, Erik Arvinder, Songa Lee, Kevin Connolly, Robin Olson, Michele Richards, Bob Peterson, Marisa Kuny, Katia Popov, Jenny Takamatsu, Neel Hammond & John Wittenberg
Violas : Andrew Picken, Mike Whitsun, Caroline Buckman, Kate Reddish, Karei Prescott & Leah Katz
Celli : Jodi Burnett, Trevor Handy, Jennifer Kuhn & Dane Little

09 - Rock Steady

Featuring - Bernard Purdie : Drums
Kenya Hathaway : Lead vocal
Bill Champlin & Carmen Grillo : Backing vocals
Jimmy Earl : Bass
James Harrah : Guitar
Dave Delhomme : Organ
Chris Trujillo : Percussion
Chuck Findley & Gary Grant : Trumpets
Brandon Fields : Alto & Baritone Sax
Larry Williams : Tenor Sax & Synth
Horns Arranged by Jerry Hey

10 - One Like You

Co-Arranged & Co-Produced by John Pena
Featuring - Smokey Robinson : Lead vocals
Michael McDonald : Backing vocals
David Sanborn : Alto Sax
Randy Jacobs & Tony Pulizzi : Guitars
Mike Finnigan : Organ
Lenny Castro : Percussion
Freddie Washington : Bass
John 'JR' Robinson : Drums
Leslie Smith : Additional Backing vocals

11 - Heart Of Mine

Featuring - Jason Scheff : Lead vocals & Bass
Michael Lington : Sax
Paul Jackson Jr. : Guitars
Paul Franklin : Pedal Steel Guitar
Alex Al : Basses
Jim Keltner : Drums
Lenny Castro : Percussion
Will Lee : Additional Vocals

12 - Won't Back Down

Featuring - Gussie Miller : Lead & Backing vocals
Michael Lington : Sax
Chase (Porcaro) Duddy : Drums
Sam Porcaro : Bass
Tim Pierce & Tony Pulizzi : Guitars
Paul Franklin : Pedal Steel Guitar
Chris Trujillo : Percussion
Lilliana de Los Reyes : Additional Vocals

13 - I Can't Let Go Now

Featuring - Amy Keys : Vocals
Steve Tavaglione : Sax
James Harrah : Guitar
Andrew Ford : Bass
Chad Wackerman : Drums
Charlie Bisharat String Quintet : Strings Arranged by Nick Lane

14 - Strawberry Fields

Featuring - David Philp : Lead vocals
Will Lee : Vocals
Gregg Bissonette : Drums
Michael Landau & Mike Miller : Guitars
John Pena : Bass
Jimmy Johnson : Fretless Bass
Chris Trujillo : Percussion
Alex Ligertwood & Jo Nagle : Additional Vocals

15 - Rocket Man (Electric)

Featuring - Jason Scheff : Lead vocals & Bass
Mike Finnigan : Organ & Vocals
Oscar Seaton Jr. : Drums
Isaiah Sharkey : Guitars
Alex Ligertwood & Carmen Grillo : Additional Vocals

Harry Nilsson - Losst And Founnd

Harry Nilsson - Losst And Founnd
Omnivore Recordings (2019)




Track Listing:
1. Losst And Founnd
2. Woman Oh Woman
3. U.C.L.A.
4. High Heel Sneakers/Rescue Boy Medley
5. Lullabye
6. Animal Farm
7. Listen, The Snow Is Falling
8. Try
9. Love Is The Answer
10. Yo Dodger Blue
11. What Does A Woman See In A Man







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums
Harry Nilsson - piano, synthesizer, timpani, vocals
Billy Amendola - percussion
Gary Burr - bowls, background vocals
Steve Carnelli - guitars
The Chicago Dude - drums
Jim Cox - accordion, celeste, electro-acoustic piano, Hammond B3, horn arrangements, piano, string arrangements, synthesizer
Dave Eggar - string arrangements
Dan Higgins - clarinet, flute, saxophone
Mark Hudson - bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, horn arrangements, percussion, string arrangements, background vocals
Melissa Hudson - percussion, background vocals
Randy Kerber - keyboards
Danny Lipsitz - clarinet, horn, horn arrangements, saxophone, saxophone arrangement
Lisa Margaroli - percussion, background vocals
Andy Martin - trombone
Val McCallum - guitars
Mark Mirando - background vocals
Dan Moore - drums, percussion, background vocals
Paul Santo - guitar, slide guitar
Robert Schaer - trumpet
Klaus Voormann - bass
Jimmy Webb - piano
Rick Zahariades - dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar
Van Dyke Parks - piano
Kiefo Nilsson - bass

Valdy - Landscapes

Valdy - Landscapes
Haida Records HL5104 (1973)




Track Listing:
1. Landscapes
2. Gypsy Ways
3. Java Jeff
4. Christian Life
5. Passin' Through
6. Truckers Song
7. Roads of Anger
8. Simple Life
9. Bitter Green
10. City Musician
11. Arnolds Cove
12. Whirl and Twirl and Swirl







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - Drums, Percussion
Valdy - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
John Guerin - Drums, Percussion
Ron Tutt - Drums
Max Bennett - Bass
Joe Sample, Clydie King - Electric Piano
Larry Carlton - Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar, 12 String Guitar
Claire Lawrence - Background Vocals, Producer, Soprano Saxophone, Organ
Sherlie Matthews, Mary Alice McCall - Background Vocals
Sheldon Sandu, Gordon Marron - Violin
David Campbell - Violin
Dennis Karmazyn - Cello

The Jim Keltner ICON Snare Drum

Robbie Robertson - Sinematic OST

Robbie Robertson - Sinematic OST
UME Direct 3070701 (2019)





Track Listing:
1. I Hear You Paint Houses
2. Once We Were Brothers
3. Dead End Kid
4. Hardwired
5. Walk In Beauty Way
6. Let Love Reign
7. Shanghai Blues
8. Wandering Souls
9. Street Serenade
10. The Shadow
11. Beautiful Madness
12. Praying For Rain
13. Remembrance








Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums (2,13)
Robbie Robertson - vocals, guitar, producer, keyboards
Pino Palladino - bass
Chris Dave - drums
Martin Pradler - keyboards
Randy Kerber - organ
Van Morrison - vocals
Derek Trucks - guitar
Glen Hansard - guitar, vocals
Doyle Bramhall II - guitar
Citizen Cope - guitar, vocals
Howie B - programing
Afie Jurvanen - background vocals
Felicity Williams - background vocals
J.S. Ondara - guitar, vocals
Laura Satterfield - vocals
Frédéric Yonnnet - harmonica
Jared Levine - producer

Jim On Late Night Show with John Mayer & Bob Weir

Ringo Is 79!

VSE NAJBOLJŠE RINGO.

Jeff On Jim

“I actually cloned myself after Jim Keltner when I was 17 and 18. I even thought it was cool to wear a vest and I copied his style. A drummer’s own style comes from eventually being on his own, but I copied [Jim] Gordon and Keltner and all these guys I dug. I remember realizing this, but after a while, the accumulation of all the guys you copy becomes your own thing, hopefully.”

“My ballad playing is me emulating Jim Keltner, and all I think about is Jim Keltner,Jim Keltner, Jim Keltner. Since I was 16 years old, I’ve had a vivid picture of Jim Keltner sitting at a set of drums on my right. I think of relaxing the groove so that there’s space. I like space in ballads. And stole from Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner. Drummers have to be sensitive to the song, the dynamics. Toto’s ballads happen to give you a lot of dynamics. You can get out there and still stay open."

Jeff Porcaro

Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks - ¡Spangled!

Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks - ¡Spangled!
Nonesuch Records 7559792550 (2019)





Track Listing:
1. Across the Borderline
2. Alma Llanera
3. The Immigrants
4. Historia de un Amor
5. Nube Gris
6. I’ll Take a Tango
7. Esperando Na Janela
8. El Sombrerón
9. O, Cantador
10. Espérame en el Cielo







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums, percussion (1,3,6,7)
Gaby Moreno - vocals, producer
Van Dyke Parks - piano, producer
Jackson Brown - vocals
Ry Cooder - guitar
Grant Geissman - guitar, mandolin
Ira Ingber - guitar
Anthony Wilson - guitar
Celso Duarte - harp, vihuela, requinto
Sebastian Aymanns - drums, percussion
Matt Cook - marimba, vibes
Felipe Roseno - cuica
Yvette Holzwarth - violin
Linnea Powell - viola
Aniela Perry - cello
Leland Sklar - bass
David Stone - upright bass
Marcus Buser - upright bass
Amy Shulman - harp

Keltner, Copeland, Questlove and more on Ringo's drumming

Stan Meets Charlie

Jim Keltner Gets Inducted To The Hall Of Fame!

Modern Drummer's Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp Roundtable

Terry Mace - Confessions Of A Sinner

Terry Mace - Confessions Of A Sinner
Mercury Records SRM 1-3773 (1979)





Track Listing:
1. Love Receiver
2. Because Of You
3. Hungry Eyes
4. Never Fight With A Lady
5. Lonely Love
6. All He Ever Wanted To Do
7. Super Boy
8. Fast Man
9. Here I Go Again
10. Say That You Need Me








Personnel:
Jim Keltner - Drums (4)
Terry Mace - Vocals
Colin Frechter - Arranger
Howard Wolen - Producer
Martin Jenner - Guitar
Mike Barker - Rhythm Guitar
Dave Mattacks - Drums
Paul Westwood - Bass
Dave Lawson - Synthesizers
Pete Zorn - Bass, Saxophone
Ralph Hammer - Guitar
Flo & Eddie - Backing vocals
Klaus Voorman - Bass
Ron Aniello - Acoustic Guitar
Roger Linn - Guitar

Remembering Hal Blaine

Jim Keltner was a member of Gary Lewis and the Playboys when he first met Hal. As he recalls, “The first recording session [for “She’s Just My Style”], Hal was playing tambourine. He was there in case I couldn’t cut it. I’ll never forget that he treated me special that day.
“Hal was so popular that some producers wouldn’t do a session if he wasn’t available, so Hal would be the contractor and he’d bring whatever Wrecking Crew musicians were available. Contracting came naturally to him. He always carried around his briefcase. It’s rare to have a musician who is good at business. Hal had so many things together that you could admire.
“The things I learned from Hal Blaine didn’t have anything to do with music. Just the way he interacted with people is something I watched and benefitted from. He was like my dad, but when you’re young you don’t necessarily want to be like your dad. I wanted to be like Hal.”


Remembering Hal Blaine

When a group of friends gathered for Hal Blaine’s 90th birthday party at the celebrated Hollywood jazz club The Baked Potato in February, they didn’t know that this was the last time they would see the legendary skinsman, though some surely suspected it. It turned into quite a night as stars—Charlie Watts, Chad Smith, Danny Carey, Danny Seraphine, and more among them—gathered to pay tribute to the legendary studio drummer who played on more recordings than anyone alive, tracks that laid down the playbook of rock and roll drumming.

When Hal died a month later on March 11 of natural causes at his home in Palm Desert, California, the whole musical world took notice. Obituaries appeared in major papers around the world and in all the trade magazines. Ringo Starr and Brian Wilson sang his praises. Facebook came alive as musicians rushed to express their sorrow and discuss their favorite Hal Blaine cuts—no easy task since he played on more than 6,000 songs and dozens of #1 hits.

Don Randi, the pianist who played on hundreds of sessions with Hal, was among the guests at the birthday party. “Hal didn’t want it to be a drummerfest,” he recalls. It wasn’t, but a few got up to play. David Goodstein, who is Dolly Parton’s drummer, played after performing with Dolly at the Grammys earlier that night. He played Elvis’ “A Little Less Conversation”—right in front of the guy who invented the memorable pattern. It’s a toss-up as to which performance was more nerve-wracking.

They were able to put Hal on the bandstand to play his seminal opening to “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes. That 1963 recording session brought together Phil Spector, the hottest producer, with Randi, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and Hal, key components of the group of top studio musicians that would become known as the Wrecking Crew. An important mistake was left in the mix that day. Blaine dropped a stick as they started recording, so he skipped the snare on the 2, hitting it only on the 4 and thus creating a classic beat that lives to this day.

Hits like that put the name of Blaine and his cohorts on the lips of every producer in town. “You’d have to have been under a rock not to know Hal Blaine was the guy on the hit records,” Jim Keltner recalls of the era. From then on, the Wrecking Crew worked nonstop for nearly a decade. Randi recalls working 26 dates in one week. Hal was booked wall to wall and frequently had to find substitutes to help him cover gigs.

The Wrecking Crew owned the charts throughout the ’60s and into the ’70s. The Crew was not exactly a set group, but a fluid assemblage of players who knew each other well and were constantly finding themselves on studio dates together for film, TV, and jingles, as well as pop recordings. Blaine, Randi, Tedesco, Glen Campbell, and a few others formed the original core, but the crew also included guitarists Mike Deasy and James Burton; pianists Larry Knechtel, Leon Russell, and Al De Lory; bassists Carol Kaye, Lyle Ritz, Ray Pohlman, Jimmy Bond, Red Callender, and Joe Osborn; and other drummers, including Earl Palmer and Frank DeVito, the latter of whom was involved in fewer sessions but still played on notable records. They all had the ability to sightread quickly (only Campbell was untutored in this regard) and lay down perfect parts in a situation where time and money were synonymous. The Wrecking Crew played on seven straight records of the year from 1966 to 1973.

Blaine was crucial to the Wrecking Crew, so much so that some producers would cancel a session rather than record without him. His sound made hits for The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Carpenters, The Mamas And The Papas, The Byrds, and hundreds of other bands, not to mention artists like Frank Sinatra. His time was perfect and his innovations on cut after cut became touchstones for a generation of drummers. But to those who worked closest with him, it was his friendship, musical generosity, authenticity, sense of humor, and outsize personality that drew them to Hal, and remained most appreciated long after the music stopped. We talked to a small group of his friends, family, peers, and Wrecking Crew collaborators to gather their thoughts about the work of and life of a singular spirit.



DON RANDI, KEYBOARDIST
“My favorite cut that Hal played is ‘MacArthur Park’ by Richard Harris. There were all the time changes to play and we did it all in one take. We [the Wrecking Crew] had capacity. We were hired because we could always do it in three hours and the producers who worked with the major labels were under the gun. Many times we could bring in two hits in three hours. Then other times you had all the time in the world. ‘Good Vibrations’ took three months.

“Hal and I used to help out the songwriters. With Leon [Russell], Tommy [Tedesco], if you had songs and needed a demo we’d take studio B at Goldstar and knock them out. Glen [Campbell] sang 80 percent of those demos. He would learn quicker than all of us, all by ear. He heard it, ran through it a couple of times and then would say, ‘Let’s cut it.’”



DAVID GRISMAN, MANDOLINIST
David Grisman recorded an album with Hal of Jewish folk music in 1995. “Hal was a dear friend and mentor. Knowing him and playing with him was one of the great privileges of my life, especially so on the road as a member of my quintet. He loved all kinds of music and was also one of the most generous human beings I’ve ever met. When my wife Tracy and I last visited Hal, he insisted that we stay at his house, and upon entering our room we found two pair of newly purchased bedroom slippers and lottery tickets! Oh, the stories he would tell, and the jokes. We have lost a giant.”


MIKE DEASY, GUITARIST
“Hal was a dear friend to Kathie and me, and the most amazing drummer. Beyond all the stats about #1 hits was the incredible level of musical communication enhanced by the level of social communication we all had as friends.

“Hal had various sets of drums tuned for different groups, and he would tune his drums to the keys of the song. I remember sitting directly across from him playing a Martin D-28 with barely enough room to walk between us. Separation was accomplished by [engineer Bones Howe] putting the SM57 mike almost on my strings. I not only could hear Hal, but also watch his hands. I patterned my rhythm parts to his drum patterns, including playing his fills with him. We developed a scratching rhythm where I dampened my strings and used a wah pedal for the rhythmic duo. You can hear that at the opening of the Elvis ’68 special.

“Hal was the guy in the studio who always had a joke to lighten pressure. He even made Barbra Streisand laugh.”


FRANK DEVITO, DRUMMER
Frank DeVito got his start playing with clarinetist Buddy DeFranco in 1949 and is still gigging in Los Angeles today, 70 years later. “Earl Palmer introduced me to Liberty Records, where I got some dates with Sam Cooke and others. Then I got to play some at Goldstar where I met Hal. I would listen to him and tell other drummers, ‘You’ve got to hear this guy. He’s not all over the place like other drummers, but he gets this great groove, good recording sound,’ and that was it.”

Hal set DeVito up with many great opportunities. “I got a call from him one day. He said, ‘I know you played with Frank Sinatra. I’m doing this date but I have to leave at one point and I want you to come.’ It was for the ‘Strangers In The Night’ session, so I ended up on ‘Summer Wind.’ I played on ‘Surfin’ USA’ with The Beach Boys. Hal recommended me. Brian Wilson didn’t know me. I’m still getting some money from that.

“I went to the [90th birthday] party at The Baked Potato. It was a great night. As the evening wound down, I gave Hal a hug and a kiss on the cheek. He said, ‘I’ll see you on the other side.’”


by Phil Hood

Jim Keltner In Music Magazines

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Sara Bareilles - Amidst The Chaos

Sara Bareilles - Amidst The Chaos
Epic Records 19075931042 (2019)




Track Listing:
1. Fire
2. No Such Thing
3. Armor
4. If I Can't Have You
5. Eyes on You
6. Miss Simone
7. Wicked Love
8. Orpheus
9. Poetry by Dead Men
10. Someone Who Loves Me
11. Saint Honesty
12. A Safe Place to Land








Personnel:
Jim Keltner – drums (1,4,5,6,7,10,12), percussion (5,9)
Sara Bareilles – vocals, piano, programming, guitar
John Legend – vocals
Emily King – vocal harmonies
Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion
Mike Piersante – percussion
Dennis Crouch – acoustic bass, electric bass
Zachary Dawes – electric bass, 6-string bass
Marc Ribot – guitar, ukulele
Blake Mills – guitar, mandolin, 6-string bass
Joseph Ryan – guitar, vocal harmonies
T Bone Burnett – guitar, producer
Patrick Warren – keyboards, strings arranger
Keefus Ciancia – keyboards
Philip Krohnengold – piano
Gabriel Johnson – trumpet

J.J. Cale - Stay Around

J.J. Cale - Stay Around
Because Music BEC5543728 (2019)




Track Listing:
1. Lights down low
2. Chasing you
3. Winter snow
4. Stay around
5. Tell you ‘bout her
6. Oh my my
7. My baby blues
8. Girl of mine
9. Go downtown
10. If we try
11. Tell daddy
12. Wish you were here
13. Long about sundown
14. Maria
15. Don’t call me Joe








Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums
J.J. Cale - guitar, vocals, producer
Bill Raffensperger - bass
Bobby Emmons - piano, organ, keyboards
Christine Lakeland - guitar
David Briggs - keyboards
David Teegarden - drums
James Cruce - drums
Jim Karstein - drums
Johnny Christopher - guitar
Kenny Buttrey - drums
Larry Bell - keyboards
Reggie Young - guitar
Rocky Frisco - piano
Spooner Oldham - keyboards
Tim Drummond - bass
Tommy Cogbill - bass, guitar
Walt Richmond - keyboards, organ, piano

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. KELTNER

Elvis Costello And The Confederates ‎– Red Shoes

Elvis Costello And The Confederates ‎– Red Shoes

Off Beat Records XXCD 1 Unofficial Release (1993)

Track Listing:

1. Intro: Stalin Malone

2. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

3. Sally Sue Brown / You're No Good

4. I’ll Wear It Proudly

5. Leave My Kitten Alone

6. That's How You Got Killed Before

7. Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind?

8. Tangled Up In Blue / Brilliant Mistake

9. Last Boat Leaving

10. I Want You

11. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding

12. Your Mind Is On Vacation

13. Lovable

Bonus Tracks

14. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding

15. Mystery Dance

16. I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

17. Pump It Up

Personnel:

Jim Keltner - Drums (1-13)

Elvis Costello- Vocals, Guitar

Jerry Scheff - Bass

Austin De Lone - Keyboards

James Burton - Guitar

Nick Lowe - Guitar, Vocals

Jim Keltner At Guitar Center

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Robby Romero - Red Thunder (25th Anniversary)

Robby Romero - Red Thunder (25th Anniversary)
Eagle Thunder Records (2019)




Track Listing:
1. Free Your Mind
2. Spirit Song
3. Heartbeat
4. Makoce Wakan
5. Prayer Song
6. Desert Dream
7. Heartbeat Naaki
8. Border Crossing
9. Born On The Rez







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums, rattles, vocals
Robby Romero - vocals, acoustic guitars, pueblo drums, rattles, producer
Don Was - producer, upright bass, vocals
Robert Mirabal - pueblo flute, vocals
Gary Farmer - blues harp, vocals
Jim Cox - piano, vocals
Danny “Kooch” Kortchmar - guitar, vocals
Al Kooper - piano
Dennis Banks, Kris Kristofferson - vocals
Ataahua Papa, Dakota Romero, Victoria Asher, Ta'kaiya Blaney, Tina Malia, Bob Neuwirth, Chris Stills, Kholan Studi, Jimmy Lee Young, Raye Zaragoza, Frances Fisher, Richard Moves Camp, Curtis Milk - backing vocals
Benito Concha - traditional drums, vocals
Mazatl Galindo - traditional flutes, percussions, vocals
Charles Gasper, Paul Martinez - acoustic bass, vocals
Stephen Croes, Rob Fraboni - producer

Bill Conti ‎- Necessary Roughness OST

Bill Conti ‎- Necessary Roughness OST
Intrada Special Collection Volume 268 (1991)






Track Listing:
1. Main Title
2. Ed's The New Coach/Open Tryouts
3. Tattoo Somebody!
4. Tattoo Somebody! (Original Version)
5. Featherstone Follies/The Story On Blake
6. Blake Meets Suzanne/The Iron Men
7. Planetarium Source
8. The Blocking Sled/Prep For Game
9. Blake Talks To Ed (Original Version)
10. Blake Gets Benched
11. Blake Talks To Ed (Revised)
12. Prisoners Arrive/Miners Game
13. Bar Room Brawl
14. The New Kicker/Lucy Takes A Shower
15. Can We Walk?/First Kiss/Why Don't You Tell Him?/Blake Quits
16. Back To School
17. Up Yours, Phil!
18. Morning Wake Up
19. 10M2 (Unused)
20. Featherstone Gets It
21. The Big Ending
   The Extras
22. Main Title (Big Guitar Opening)
23. Ed's The New Coach (Guitar Opening)
24. Featherstone Follies (Film Version)
25. The Story On Blake (Film Version)
26. Prep For Game (Original, Alt. Bass)
27. Up Yours, Phil! (Alt. Mix)
28. Main Titles (Lower Guitar Opening)
29. Main Title (Alternate)









Personnel:
Jim Keltner, Michael Baird, Larry Bunker, Emil Richards, Dale Anderson, Alan Estes, Dan Greco, Stephen Houghton, Peter Limonick, Harvey Mason, Joe Porcaro, Steve Schaeffer, Jerry Williams, Bob Zimmitti - percussion, drums
Bill Conti - composer, conductor
Brian O'Connor, Joe Meyer, Mark Adams, James Atkinson, Steven Becknell, Jeff DeRosa, David Duke, Yvonne S. Moriarty, Diane Muller, John Reynolds, Steven Silverman, James Thatcher, Richard Todd, Brad Warnaar - French horn
Tommy Johnson, Norman Pearson, Jim Self - tuba
Rick Baptist, Warren Luening, Malcolm McNab, Charles Davis, Joe Davis, Bob Findley, Gary Grant, Larry Hall, Walt Johnso, Robert O'Donnell, Frank Szabo - trumpet
Charles Loper, Steven Holtman, Alan Kaplan, Dick Nash, Phil Teele - trombone
John Goux, John Wheelock - guitar
Leland Sklar, Neil Stubenhaus, Dennis Belfield - bass

Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks - The Immigrants

Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks - The Immigrants
Nonesuch Records 573244 (2018)


Track Listing:
1. The Immigrants





Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums
Gaby Moreno - vocals
Van Dyke Parks - vocals, arranger
Leland Sklar - bass
Grant Geissman - guitar
Matt Cook - marimba
Amy Shulman - harp
Yvette Holzworth - violin
Linnea Powell - viola
Aniela Perry - cello
Doug Legacy - steel drum
Lizzie Upton - French horn
Mark Pender - trumpet
Phil Feather - woodwinds
David Stone - upright bass

Leon On Jim

"He reacts to everything that's going on in the music.”
Leon Russell

Dawes - We're All Gonna Die

Dawes - We're All Gonna Die
HUB Records HUB007-2 (2016)






Track Listing:
1. One Of Us
2. We're All Gonna Die
3. Roll With The Punches
4. Picture Of A Man
5. Less Than Five Miles Away
6. Roll Tide
7. When The Tequila Runs Out
8. For No Good Reason
9. Quitter
10. As If By Design








Personnel:
Jim Keltner - Electronic Drums (7)
Blake Mills - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drum Programming, Bass, Vocals, Synthesizer, Producer
Wylie Gelber - Bass
Taylor Goldsmith - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano
Lee Pardini - Vocals, Clavinet, Piano, Organ, Synthesizer
Griffin Goldsmith - Vocals, Drums, Percussion
Holly Laessig, Jess Wolfe, Mandy Moore, Brittany Howard, Jim James, Will Oldham - Vocals
Rob Moose - Strings
Vocals – Blake Mills
Nate Walcott - Trumpet

Foxygen - Seeing Other People

Foxygen - Seeing Other People
Jagjaguwar Records JAG327 (2019)





Track Listing:
1. Work
2. Mona
3. Seeing Other People
4. Face The Facts
5. Livin' A Lie
6. The Thing Is
7. News
8. Flag At Half-Mast
9. The Conclusion






Personnel
Jim Keltner - drums
Sam France - vocals, producer
Jonathan Rado - multi-istrumentalist, producer

Mike Baggetta - Wall Of Flowers

Mike Baggetta - Wall Of Flowers
Big Ego Records BIG005 (2019)




Track Listing:
1. Hospital Song (intro)
2. Hospital Song
3. Blue Velvet (solo)
4. I Am Not A Data Point
5. Of Breads & Rivers
6. Dirty Smell Of Dying
7. Blue Velvet (duo)
8. Wall Of Flowers






Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums, percussion
Mike Baggetta - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, live processing
Mike Watt - bass
Chris Schlarb - producer

John Rooney - Joy

John Rooney - Joy
Half An Arc Records (2019)




Track Listing:
1. Don’t Give Up Now
2. All Over The World
3. Grant Me Peace
4. Premonition
5. What Could Have Been
6. Delicious
7. Invisible
8. Darkness
9. Kill The Dream
10. Shrouded In A Veil







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums
John Rooney - vocals
Don Dixon - producer
Spooner Oldham, Benmont Tench - piano, electric piano, organ
Don Was, Chris Chaney - bass
Rusty Anderson, Mitch Easter - guitar
Crispin Cioe, Arno Hecht - saxophone
Larry Etkin - trumpet
Bob Funk - trombone
Jon Carroll, Susan Cowsill, Don Dixon, Georgina Johnston, Marti Jones - backing vocals

Jim Keltner And Hal Blaine

Jim Keltner said:
“Hal was huge in my life, ninety years is a good run. We should all be so lucky.”

Rest In Peace Mr. Blaine.
(5. februar 1929-11. marec 2019)


Drummer Hal Blaine, one of the most recorded musicians in pop music history whose powerful percussion work shaped the sound of scores of hit records, died Monday at age 90, his family announced.

Blaine’s signature beat can be heard on countless hits by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, the Byrds and others.

In a post to Blaine’s official Facebook page, his family referenced his “inspiration to countless friends, fans and musicians,” adding: “May he rest forever on 2 and 4,” referencing the accented beats that have powered hundreds — if not thousands — of hit recordings over the decades.

“I’m so sad, I don’t know what to say,” Beach Boys creative leader Brian Wilson said of the man he typically called first for many of his group’s recording sessions in the 1960s. “Hal Blaine was such a great musician and friend that I can’t put it into words. Hal taught me a lot, and he had so much to do with our success — he was the greatest drummer ever. We also laughed an awful lot. Hal, we love you and our memories will last forever.”

Blaine was a key member of the ace Los Angeles studio musicians who came to be known as “the Wrecking Crew,” and is even credited with coining the term. The name is an allusion to the way a new generation of professional players emerged in the 1960s and ostensibly “wrecked” the careers of their predecessors, who often disdained performing on rock, soul and R&B recordings that became the lingua franca of popular music after World War II.

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts said Monday, “Godspeed Hal. He gave us all so much. Feeling very blessed to have celebrated his life with him,” referring to Watts’ participation in Blaine’s 90th birthday gathering last month at Wrecking Crew musician Don Randi’s Baked Potato jazz club in Studio City.

“Hal was huge in my life,” another veteran studio drummer, Jim Keltner, told The Times on Monday. “Ninety years is a good run. We should all be so lucky.”

Blaine’s floor-rattling “thump, thump-thump, crack!” drumbeat that opened the Ronettes’ 1963 hit “Be My Baby,” one of many produced by “Wall of Sound” creator Phil Spector, remains one of the most influential musical introductions in rock history. It was a key reason that Wilson, who has consistently cited “Be My Baby” as his favorite record of all time, tapped Blaine to play on many of that group’s most important recording sessions. “Be My Baby” directly inspired the Beach Boys’ 1964 hit “Don’t Worry Baby.”

Blaine’s relationship with Wilson included work on such signature Beach Boys songs as “California Girls,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “Good Vibrations” that helped expand the sounds and textures of rock music in the ‘60s.

Consequently, his role in Wilson’s music played a significant part in “Love & Mercy,” the 2014 biopic documenting Wilson’s life and career.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted him in 2000 among the first five studio instrumentalists ever elected to the hall, Blaine “has certainly played on more hit records than any drummer in the rock era, including 40 No. 1 singles and 150 that made the Top 10.”

Scoffing at the notion of being an “unsung hero” in pop music at the time of his induction, Blaine told The Times, “I’ve had 263 gold and platinum record awards, made literally a couple of million bucks — it goes on and on — so at the time I was laughing all the way to the bank.”

Yet he famously lost much of his material wealth following a messy divorce, and he spent some years working as a security guard in Arizona after he and many of his Wrecking Crew mates ceded their studio supremacy to subsequent generations of musicians.

Blaine was born Harold Simon Belsky on Feb. 5, 1929, in Holyoke, Mass., and after moving to Los Angeles, he participated in thousands of recording sessions that included most of Presley’s movie soundtracks as well as TV and movie themes including “Batman” and the original cast recording of “The Rocky Horror Show.”
Other hits featuring Blaine’s drumming include Paul Revere & the Raiders’ “Kicks,” Richard Harris’ “MacArthur Park,” Roy Orbison’s “It’s Over,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” and “Mrs. Robinson,” “The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” and “Monday, Monday.”

“We come in wearing blue jeans, smoking, and the older guys said, ‘They’re gonna wreck the business,’” Blaine said in the 2015 documentary “The Wrecking Crew” directed by Denny Tedesco, son of similarly prolific studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco.

That film included a scene that crystallized the magic the often anonymous studio professionals brought to the sessions.

When Byrds lead singer Roger McGuinn entered a studio surrounded by such journeymen, it took only an hour to lay down the group’s career-launching hit “Mr. Tambourine Man.”

When the rest of the group joined McGuinn to create a follow-up single, the full band needed 77 takes to perfect “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

“It’s kind of a shock to the general public when they find out that a lot of [musicians in famous bands] didn't play on their records,” Blaine told The Times in 2000. “But not everybody can be a plumber and go fix a broken pipe. Sometimes you need an expert, and that's all there is to it.

“Most of it was economics,” he said. “We could go in and do an album in six hours. Kids today, sometimes it takes them months to get one song down.”

Of the wildly varied demands placed on studio musicians, Blaine recalled, ”One minute I’d be playing with Count Basie, the next minute I was with Lawrence [Welk] and the next minute I was with the Beach Boys,” he told author Ken Sharp for his companion book to Tedesco’s “Wrecking Crew” documentary, “Sound Explosion.”

“We played every genre of music,” Blaine said. “We’d play with the top jazz people in the world, like Gerry Mulligan or Chet Baker. There were no nerves in our bodies. Nobody was shaking in their boots. Our chops were perfect in those days. There was nothing we couldn’t do.”

Blaine often credited getting his start in the L.A. recording studio scene to New Orleans drummer Earl Palmer, who came west in 1957 and quickly became the first-call studio drummer, as he had been in New Orleans.

When he received requests for sessions he was too busy to handle, he frequently directed callers to Blaine.

The contributions of the studio players shouldn’t be underestimated.

"I don't know how many times I've seen an artist go into the studio and have to be guided along by the musicians,” Palmer told The Times in 2000, “because the artists and even the producers didn't know what to do.”

Atlantic Records executive and producer Jerry Wexler explained it this way: “All we would start with was a bunch of chords — we didn't have written arrangements. The musicians routinely came up with things that made those records.

“If you just play the chords, it's [nothing],” Wexler said. “It's how you fill it in — the in-between notes, the upbeats, the downbeats, the walk-ups, the walk-downs, the rhythm pattern — that puts the icing on the cake.”

Such was the respect that Blaine and his cohorts commanded among the singers, producers, composers and others who worked with them that songwriter Jimmy Webb, in his 2017 memoir “The Cake and the Rain,” said that he remembered only one thing about winning the Grammy Award for song of the year for his 1967 Fifth Dimension hit “Up, Up and Away.

“I had not prepared a speech and I don’t know what I said,” Webb wrote, “except that I thanked Hal Blaine.”

The statement from Blaine’s family said his survivors include his daughter, Michelle, and seven grandchildren, and added that “no further details will be released at this time.”



by Randy Lewis

Drums & Percussion July/August 2018

Don Felder - American Rock ’N’ Roll

Don Felder - American Rock ’N’ Roll
BMG Rights Management (2019)






Track Listing:
1. American Rock ‘N’ Roll
2. Charmed
3. Falling In Love
4. Hearts On Fire
5. Limelight
6. Little Latin Lover
7. Rock You
8.She Just Doesn’t Get It
9.The Way Things Have To Be
10. You’re My World








Personnel:
Jim Keltner - Drums (9,10)
Don Felder - Vocals, Guitar
Slash - Guitar
Nathan East - Bass
Mick Fleetwood - Drums
Chad Smith - Drums
Lenny Castro - Percussions
Monet Owens, Timothy Drury, Joe Williams, Sean Holt, Leah Felder, Bob Weir - Background Vocals
Alex Lifeson - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Mike Finnigan - Hammond B3 Organ
Robin DiMaggio - Drums, Percussion, Programming, Hand Claps
Steve Porcaro - Keyboards
David Paich - Keyboards, Piano
Alex Al - Bass, Moog Bass
Orianthi - Guitar
Richie Sambora - Guitar
Chris Chaney - Bass
Abe Laboriel SR. - Bass
Alex Alessandroni  - Piano, Keyboards
Christophe Lampidecchia - Accordion
Sammy Hagar - Vocals
Joe Satriani - Guitar
Steve Gadd - Drums
Greg Leisz - Pedal Steel
Peter Frampton - Guitar, Background Vocal
Kenneth Crouch - Keyboards

Jenny Lewis - On The Line

Jenny Lewis - On The Line
Warner Bros. Records 9362490145 (2019)





Track Listing:
1. Heads Gonna Roll
2. Wasted Youth
3. Red Bull & Hennessy
4. Hollywood Lawn
5. Do Si Do
6. Dogwood
7. Party Clown
8. Little White Dove
9. Taffy
10. On the Line
11. Rabbit Hole







Personnel:
Jim Keltner - drums, percussion
Jenny Lewis - vocals, guitar
Beck - guitar, vocals
Ringo Starr - drums
Ryan Adams - guitar, vocals
Don Was - bass
Benmont Tench - keyboards, piano