How many people can honestly say they heard of Dido before hearing her voice on Eminem’s smash hit “Stan”? I can. I knew of her from her brother Rollo’s band Faithless (boo yah – nerd powers) and couldn’t wait to get her album after hearing her single “Here With Me” when I used to watch Roswell on television (back when Katherine Heigl was still universally bad ass) on the WB. Those were the days.

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong , professionally known as Dido, originally released No Angel in 1999, it found a mass audience in 2001, and according to her official web site it went on to achieve sales in excess of over sixteen million copies worldwide.

The success of No Angel was spurred on by Eminem sampling Dido’s track, “Thank You” on “Stan”, a track from his The Marshall Mathers LP album, released in 2000. The Marshall Mathers LP reached #1 on the US and Canadian charts, and Dido appeared in the music video for “Stan”, which was the third single from the album, playing the fictional character Stan’s long-suffering girlfriend. While the song only reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, it went to #1 in the UK and Australia and was an international hit. “Stan” was nominated for a Grammy award for the track (Dido did not sing with Eminem at the ceremony; Elton John sang Dido’s section).

Track listing

1. “Here with Me” (Dido Armstrong, Pascal Gabriel, Paul Statham) – 4:14
2. “Hunter” (D. Armstrong, Rollo Armstrong) – 3:57
3. “Don’t Think of Me” (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Paul Herman, Pauline Taylor) – 4:32
4. “My Lover’s Gone” (D. Armstrong, Jamie Catto) – 4:27
5. “All You Want” – 3:53
6. “Thank You” – 3:38
7. “Honestly OK” – 4:37
8. “Slide” – 4:53
9. “Isobel” – 3:54
10. “I’m No Angel” – 3:55
11. “My Life” – 3:09
12. “Take My Hand (Bonus Track)” – 6:42

1. You May Die: (Intro)
2. Two Dope Boyz: (In A Cadillac)
3. Atliens
4. Wheelz Of Steel
5. Jazzy Belle
6. Elevators: (Me & You)
7. Ova Da Wudz
8. Babylon
9. Wailin’
10. Mainstream
11. Decatur Psalm
12. Millennium
13. E.T.: (Extraterrestrial)
14. 13th Floor/Growing Old
15. Elevators: (DNP86 Mix)

Samples used

• “Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)” contains a sample of “Danger, She’s A Stranger” by The Five Stairsteps.
• “Wheelz of Steel” contains a sample of “Focus III” by Focus (from the 1972 album Focus III).
• “Jazzy Belle” contains a sample of “Prelude” by Lamont Dozier (from the 1974 album Black Bach).
• “Elevators (Me & You)” contains a sample of “Come In Out of the Rain” by Parliament (from the album First Thangs) and SFX from the video game Super Mario Bros.
• “Wailin” contains a sample of “To The Establishment” by Lou Bond.
• “Mainstream” contains a sample of “Sesame Street” by Goodie Mob.

Personnel

• Alvin Speights – Mixing
• Andre 3000 – Vocals
• Andrea Martin – Vocals
• Bernasky Wall – Engineering
• Big Boi – Vocals
• Big Gipp – Vocals
• Blake Eiseman – Engineering
• Brian Frye – Engineering
• Carlos Glover – Acoustic Guitar
• Carlton Batts – Mastering
• Cee-Lo – Vocals
• Cool Breeze – Vocals
• Craig Love – Guitar
• Debra Killings – Vocals
• Dee Simmons – Drum
• Derrick Williams – Engineering
• Dexter Simmons – Engineering, Mixing
• Ed Stroud – Guitar
• James “Jay” Nicholas – Bass
• Jarvis Blackshear – Engineering
• Jazzyfatnastees – Vocals
• John Frye – Engineering
• John Wydrycs – Engineering
• Joi – Vocals
• Kenny Wright – Keyboard
• Kerren Berz – Violin
• Khujo – Vocals
• Leslie Brathwaite – Mixing
• Marq Jefferson – Bass Guitar
• Martin Terry – Guitar
• Marvin “Chanz” Parkman – Keyboard, Organ
• Mike Wilson – Engineering
• Mr. DJ – Scratches
• Neal Pogue – Mixing
• Organized Noize – Drum Programming, Keyboard Programming, Mixing & Production
• Outkast – Drum Programming, Keyboard Programming, Mixing & Production
• Peaches – Vocals
• Preston Crump – Bass Guitar
• ShaJuanna Edghill – Vocals
• Skinny Miracles – Piano
• Sleepy Brown – Vocals
• T-Mo – Vocals
• Tamara – Vocals
• Tommy Martin – Acoustic Guitar
• Trina Broussard – Vocals
• Whild Peach – Vocals
• Witchdoctor – Vocals

At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song “Folsom Prison Blues”, Cash drew an interest in performing at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash’s material. Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. Backed with June Carter, Carl Perkins, and Cash’s band, the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California on January 13, 1968. The resulting album consisted of 15 tracks from the first show and one track from the second.

1. “Folsom Prison Blues” – 2:42
2. “Busted” (Harlan Howard) – 1:25
3. “Dark as a Dungeon” – 3:04
4. “I Still Miss Someone” – 1:38
5. “Cocaine Blues” – 3:01
6. “25 Minutes to Go” – 3:31
7. “Orange Blossom Special” – 3:06
8. “The Long Black Veil” – 3:58
9. “Send a Picture of Mother” – 2:05
10. “The Wall” – 1:36
11. “Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog” – 1:30
12. “Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart” – 2:05
13. “Joe Bean” (B. Freeman, L. Pober) – 3:05
14. “Jackson” (with June Carter) – 3:12
15. “Give My Love to Rose” (with June Carter) – 2:43
16. “I Got Stripes” – 1:52
17. “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer” (Johnny Cash, June Carter) – 7:08
18. “Green Green Grass of Home” – 2:13
19. “Greystone Chapel” – 6:02

• Johnny Cash – vocal, guitar, harmonica
• June Carter – vocal
• Marshall Grant – bass guitar
• W.S. Holland – drums
• Carl Perkins – electric guitar
• Luther Perkins – electric guitar
• The Statler Brothers (Lew DeWitt, Don Reid, Harold Reid, Phil Balsley) – vocals
• Bob Johnston – producer
• Bob Breault, Bill Britain – engineers
• Jim Marshall – photography

Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the alt country band Drive-By Truckers. It was a double album and released in 2001. Covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 70s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. The record was originally self-released on Soul Dump Records. It was re-released on July 16, 2002 by Lost Highway Records. The album was financed by issuing promissory notes in exchange for loans from fans, family and friends of the band.

The album’s artwork was done by Virginia artist, Wes Freed.

Disc one: Act one: Betamax Guillotine

1. “Days of Graduation” (Hood)
2. “Ronnie and Neil” (Hood)
3. “72 (This Highway’s Mean)” (Cooley)
4. “Dead, Drunk, and Naked” (Hood)
5. “Guitar Man Upstairs” (Cooley)
6. “Birmingham” (Hood)
7. “The Southern Thing” (Hood)
8. “The Three Great Alabama Icons” (Hood)
9. “Wallace” (Hood)
10. “Zip City” (Cooley)
11. “Moved” (Malone)

Disc two: Act two

1. “Let There Be Rock” (Hood)
2. “Road Cases” (Hood)
3. “Women Without Whiskey” (Cooley)
4. “Plastic Flowers on the Highway” (Hood)
5. “Cassie’s Brother” (Malone)
6. “Life in the Factory” (Hood)
7. “Shut Up and Get on the Plane” (Cooley)
8. “Greenville to Baton Rouge” (Hood)
9. “Angels and Fuselage” (Hood)

Band

• Mike Cooley – lyrics, vocals, guitar
• Earl Hicks – bass
• Patterson Hood – lyrics, vocals, guitar
• Rob Malone – lyrics, vocals, guitar
• Brad Morgan – drums

Guest performers

• Kelly Hogan – vocals
• Anne Richmond Boston – vocals
• Jyl Freed – vocals
• Amy Pike – vocals

There is a good page on the band’s website with comments on each of the songs on this album. The comments are written by singer Patterson Hood.

From Wikipedia

Graceland is an album released by Paul Simon in 1986. It was a hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US. The album won the Album of the Year Grammy award, while the title song won the Record of the Year Grammy award, for 1986 and 1987 respectively. The title track was inspired by a visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley’s estate in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2006, the album was added to the United States National Recording Registry, along with another 24 significant recordings that year.

1. “The Boy in the Bubble” – 3:59
2. “Graceland” – 4:48
3. “I Know What I Know” – 3:13
4. “Gumboots” – 2:44
5. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – 5:45
6. “You Can Call Me Al” – 4:39
7. “Under African Skies” – 3:37
8. “Homeless” – 3:48
9. “Crazy Love, Vol. II” – 4:18
10. “That Was Your Mother” – 2:52
11. “All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints” – 3:15

Credits

• Paul Simon – Acoustic Guitar (tracks 1 and 11), Guitar (tracks 5 and 7), Synclavier (track 3 and 4), Six-String Electric Bass (track 6), Background Vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9)
• Rob Mounsey – Horn Arrangement (track 6) (uncredited on album)
• Ray Phiri – Guitar (tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9)
• Adrian Belew – Guitar Synthesizer (tracks 1, 6, and 9), Guitar (track 7)
• Demola Adepoju – Pedal Steel Guitar (track 2)
• Daniel Xilakazi – Lead and Rhythm Guitar (track 4)
• Sherman Robertson – Guitar (track 10)
• Cesar Rosas – Guitar and backing vocals (track 11)
• David Hidalgo – Guitar, accordion, and backing vocals (track 11)
• Conrad Lozano – Bass (track 11)
• Alonzo Johnson – Bass (track 10)
• Lloyd Lelose – Bass (track 9)
• Bakithi Kumalo – Bass (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7)
• Isaac Mtshali – Drums (tracks 5, 6, 7, and 9)
• Vusi Khumalo – Drums (tracks 1 and 2)
• Petrus Manile – Drums (track 4)
• Alton Rubin, Jr. – Drums (track 10)
• Louie Pérez – Drums (track 11)
• Steve Gadd – Additional Drums (track 11)
• Makhaya Mahlangu – Percussion (tracks 1 and 2)
• Ralph MacDonald – Percussion (tracks 4, 6, 7, and 11)
• Yossou N’Dour – Percussion (track 5)
• Babacar Faye – Percussion (track 5)
• Assane Thiam – Percussion (track 5)
• Lulu Masilela – Tambourines (track 4)
• David Rubin – Washboard (track 10)
• Alton Rubin, Sr. – Accordion (track 10)
• Jonhjon Mkhalali – Accordion (track 4)
• Forere Motloheloa – Accordion (track 1)
• Rob Mounsey – Synthesizer (tracks 1 and 6)
• Barney Rachabane – Saxophone (track 4)
• Mike Makhalemele – Saxophone (track 4)
• Teaspoon Ndela – Saxophone (track 4)
• Lenny Pickett – Tenor Saxophone (track 5)
• Earl Gardner – Trumpet (track 5)
• Alex Foster – Alto Saxophone (track 5)
• Ronnie Cuber – Bass and Baritone Saxophone (track 6)
• Jon Faddis – Trumpet (track 6)
• Randy Brecker – Trumpet (track 6)
• Lew Soloff – Trumpet (track 6)
• Alan Rubin – Trumpet (track 6)
• Dave Bargeron – Trombone (track 6)
• Kim Cissel – Trombone (track 6)
• Morris Goldberg – Pennywhistle (track 6), Soprano Saxophone (track 9)
• Johnny Hoyt – Saxophone (track 10)
• Steve Berlin – Saxophone (track 11)
• The Everly Brothers – Additional Vocals (track 2)
• The Gaza Sisters – Vocals (track 3)
• Diane Garisto – Backing Vocals (track 4)
• Michelle Cobbs – Backing Vocals (track 4)
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Vocals (tracks 5 and 8)
• Joseph Shabalala – Vocals (track 8)
• Linda Ronstadt – Additional Vocals (track 7)

Rated R also called R is the second album by the American hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age. It was released on June 6, 2000 through Interscope Records. The band began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, Queens of the Stone Age, released in 1998. Rated R captured the heaviness of the band’s earlier releases while displaying a more diverse range of influences.

Rated R was a critical and commercial success and became the band’s breakthrough album. It peaked at number 16 on the Top Heatseekers and reached high positions on charts worldwide. Three singles were released from the album: “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”, “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” and “Monsters in the Parasol”, the first single helped Queens of the Stone Age reach mainstream popularity. The album has been certified silver in the United Kingdom.

1. “Feel Good Hit of the Summer”
2. “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”
3. “Leg of Lamb”
4. “Auto Pilot”
5. “Better Living through Chemistry”
6. “Monsters in the Parasol”
7. “Quick and to the Pointless”
8. “In the Fade”
9. “Tension Head”
10. “Lightning Song”
11. “I Think I Lost My Headache”

Personnel

• Josh Homme – vocals, guitar, percussion (tracks 3, 8), drums (track 4), piano (track 10), backing vocals (track 4), producer, mixing, concept
• Nick Oliveri – bass, percussion (track 8), guitar (track 4), vocals (tracks 4, 7, 9), backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 11), concept, art conception
• Nick Lucero – drums (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8, 11), percussion (track 3, 4)
• Gene Trautmann – drums (tracks 1, 6, 7, 9)
• Chris Goss – bass (track 4), percussion (track 1), backing vocals (tracks 4, 5, 6), producer, grand piano (track 1), noise piano (track 2)
• Dave Catching – electric piano (tracks 1, 2, 8), piano (track 5), B3 (track 4), guitar (tracks 6, 7), 12-string guitar (track 10), lap steel (tracks 1, 11)
• Mark Lanegan – vocals (track 8), backing vocals (tracks 4, 11)
• Barrett Martin – percussion (tracks 5, 10), steel drum (track 11), vibes (tracks 2, 5)
• Mike Johnson – backing vocals (track 3)
• Rob Halford – backing vocals (track 1)
• Nick Eldorado – backing vocals (tracks 1, 7)
• Scott Mayo – horns (track 11), baritone sax (track 2)
• Fernando Pullum – horns (track 11), flugal horn (track 7)
• Wendy Ray Moan – backing vocals (tracks 1, 7)
• Peter Stahl – backing vocals (track 2)
• Reggie Young – horns (track 11)
• Bradley Cook – engineer
• Martin Schmelzle – engineer, sequencing, assembly
• Trina Shoemaker – engineer, mixing
• Dan Druff – guitar technician
• Marek – noise (track 8), mixing
• Robert Brunner – pre-production assistant
• Francesca Restrepo – art direction

Endtroducing….. is the debut studio album by hip hop artist DJ Shadow. It was first released on November 19, 1996 by Mo’ Wax Records, and later reissued on June 7, 2005 by Island Records. It is noted for being one of the first instrumental albums created entirely from samples of other records. The album received worldwide critical acclaim upon release.

1. “Best Foot Forward” – 0:47
2. “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” – 6:39
3. “The Number Song” – 4:34
4. “Changeling” – 7:16
   • “Transmission 1″ – 0:35
5. “What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)” – 5:02
6. ” ” – 0:25
7. “Stem/Long Stem” – 7:47
   • “Transmission 2″ – 1:29
8. “Mutual Slump” – 4:00
9. “Organ Donor” – 1:57
10. “Why Hip Hop Sucks in ’96″ – 0:44
11. “Midnight in a Perfect World” – 4:58
12. “Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain” – 9:21
13. “What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit)” – 6:17
    • “Transmission 3″ – 1:11

Personnel

• Josh Davis (DJ Shadow) – production, mix, engineering
• Lyrics Born – vocals – untitled track 6 & “Why Hip-Hop Sucks in ’96″
• Gift of Gab – vocals – “Midnight in a Perfect World”

The following lists some of the songs and sounds sampled for Endtroducing.

Best Foot Forward

• “It’s My Turn” by Stezo
• “Real Deal” by Lifer’s Group
• “He’s My DJ” by Sparky Dee
• “Poison” by Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo
• “Dynamite” by Masters of Ceremony
• “Cold Chillin’ in the Spot” by Jazzy Jay
• “Do or Die Bed-Stuy” by Divine Sounds
• “Party’s Gettin’ Rough” by Beastie Boys
• “You Can’t Stop the Prophet” by Jeru the Damaja
• “Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Part 2″ by Stanley Clarke

Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

• “I Worship You” by Lexia
• “I Need You” by H.P. Riot
• “I Feel a New Shadow” by Jeremy Storch
• “Soul Food” by Frankie Seay & The Soul Riders
• “Planetary Motivations (Cancer)” by Mort Garson
• “Music Makers: Percussion” by the Chevron/Standard Oil Company of California (1974) From an interview with George Marsh, jazz drummer, percussionist

The Number Song

• “Orion” by Metallica
• “Been Had” by Sapo
• “Breakdown” by T La Rock
• “AJ Scratch” by Kurtis Blow
• “Quit Jivin’” by Pearly Queen
• “Baby Don’t Cry” by The Third Guitar
• “8 Counts for Rita” by Jimmy Smith
• “Sexy Coffee Pot” by Tony Avalon & The Belairs
• “Back to the Hip-Hop” by The Troubleneck Brothers
• “Bad Luck” by Don Covay & the Lemon Blues Band
• “Can I Kick It (Spirit Remix)” by A Tribe Called Quest
• “Who Got the Number” by Pigmeat Markham & the B.Y.
• “Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie” by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
• “Corruption is the Thing/Chrystal Illusion” by Creations Unlimited
• “Flash It to the Beat” (Live), & “Freelance” by Grandmaster Flash
• “Areumdawoon Inhyeong (Get Ready)” by HE 6

Changeling/Transmission 1

• “Soft Shell” by Motherlode
• “Klondyke Netti” by Embryo
• “Invisible Limits” by Tangerine Dream
• “Imagination Flight” by Chaffey College Jazz Ensemble
• “Here Comes the Meterman” by The Meters
• The Dream Message from Prince of Darkness
• “Inner Mood I” & “Touching Souls” by Kay Gardner
• “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” by Loudon Wainwright III

What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4

• “The Vision and the Voice, Part 1 – The Vision” by Flying Island
• “Monica” by The People’s People
• “Numbers” by Kraftwerk

Untitled (Track 06)

• “Grey Boy” by Human Race

Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2

• “Love Suite” by Nirvana
• “Tears” by Giorgio Moroder
• “Linde Manor” by Dennis Linde
• “Dolmen Music” by Meredith Monk
• “The Human Abstract” by David Axelrod
• “The Madness Subsides” by Pekka Pohjola
• “Freedom” (spoken word) by Murray Roman
• The Dream Message from Prince of Darkness
• “Variazione III. (Tredicesimo Cortile)” by Osanna
• “Blues So Bad” by The Mystic Number National Bank
• “Oleo Strut” by Steve Drews (as part of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co.)
• “1-800-Suicide” by Gravediggaz
• Background synthesizers from “Blade Runner”

Mutual Slump

• “Possibly Maybe” by Björk
• “Love, Love, Love” by Pugh Rogefeldt
• “More Than Seven Dwarfs in Penis-Land” by Roger Waters & Ron Geesin

Organ Donor

• “Someone” by Bill & Tim
• “Tears” by Giorgio Moroder
• “PM or Later (Instrumental)” by The New Breed
• “There’s a DJ in Your Town” by Samson & Delilah

Midnight in a Perfect World

• “Soul” by S.O.U.L.
• “Outta State” by Akinyele
• “Sower of Seeds” by Baraka
• “Life Could” by Rotary Connection
• “California Soul” by Marlena Shaw
• “The Human Abstract” by David Axelrod
• “The Madness Subsides” by Pekka Pohjola
• “Dolmen Music” & “Gotham Lullaby” by Meredith Monk
• “Releasing Hypnotical Gases” by Organized Konfusion
• “Summer Breeze” by The Isley Brothers

Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain

• “‘Pon a Hill” by T.Rex
• “Walk on By” by Joann Garrett
• Dialogue from The Aurora Encounter
• “Moment of Truth” by Charles Bernstein
• “A Funky Kind of Thing” by Billy Cobham
• “Let the Homicides Begin” by Top Priority
• “2001: A Space Odyssey” by The Daly-Wilson Bigband
• “Soul Brothers Testify” by The Original Soul Senders

What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit

• “All Our Love” by Shawn Phillips
• “Joe Splivingates” by David Young
• “Nucleus” by The Alan Parsons Project
• “Edge of Time” by Growing Concern
• The Dream Message from Prince of Darkness
• “Voice of the Saxophone” by The Heath Brothers
• Voice of the “The Giant” from episode 14 of Twin Peaks

The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg’s lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz samples, the album includes guests Brand Nubian, Diamond D and Leaders of the New School, the original rap group of Busta Rhymes.

1. “Excursions” – 3:53
2. “Buggin’ Out” – 3:38
3. “Rap Promoter” – 2:13
4. “Butter” – 3:39
5. Verses from the Abstract” – 3:59
6. “Show Business” – 3:53
7. “Vibes and Stuff” – 4:18
8. “The Infamous Date Rape” – 2:54
9. “Check the Rhime” – 3:36
10. “Everything Is Fair” – 2:58
11. “Jazz (We’ve Got)” – 4:09
12. “Skypager” – 2:13
13. “What?” – 2:29
14. “Scenario” – 4:10

Samples

• “Excursions”
  • The Last Poets – “Time”
  • The Last Poets – “Tribute to Obabi”
  • Shades of Brown – “The Soil I Tilled For You”
  • Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – “A Chant for Bu”
• “Buggin’ Out”
  • Jack DeJohnette – “Minya’s the Mooch”
  • Lonnie Smith – “Spinning Wheel”
  • Michael Urbaniak – “Ekim”
• “Rap Promoter”
  • Eric Mercury – “Long Way Down”
  • New Birth – “Keep On Doin’ It”
  • Sly & the Family Stone – “Stand”
  • Jimi Hendrix – “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
• “Butter”
  • Eighties Ladies – “Turned On To You”
  • Chuck Jackson – “I Like Everything About You”
  • Gary Bartz – “Gentle Smiles”
  • Weather Report – “Young and Fine”
• “Verses from The Abstract”
  • Joe Farrell – “Upon This Rock”
  • Heatwave – “Star Of A Story”
• “Show Business”
  • James Brown – “Funky President”
  • Fatback Band – “Wicky-Wacky”
  • Martin Denny – “Midnight Cowboy”
  • Ferrante and Teicher – “Midnight Cowboy”
• “Vibes and Stuff”
  • Grant Green – “Down Here on the Ground”
• “The Infamous Date Rape”
  • Jackie Jackson – “Is It Him Or Me?”
  • Cannonball Adderley – “The Steam Drill”
  • Les McCann – “North Carolina”
• “Check the Rhime”
  • Average White Band – “Love Your Life”
  • Minnie Riperton – “Baby, This Love I Have”
  • Grover Washington, Jr. – “Hydra”
  • Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like An Eagle”
• “Everything is Fair”
  • Bobby Byrd – “Hot Pants… I’m Coming, I’m Coming, I’m Coming”
  • Funkadelic – “Let’s Take It To The People”
  • Harlem Underground Band – “Ain’t No Sunshine”
  • Willis Jackson – “Ain’t No Sunshine”
• “Jazz (We’ve Got)”
  • Five Stairsteps – “Don’t Change Your Love”
  • Sly & the Family Stone – “Sing a Simple Song”
  • Freddie Hubbard – “Red Clay”
  • Lucky Thompson – “Green Dolphin Street”
  • Mountain – “Long Red”
• “What?”
  • Paul Humphrey – “Uncle Willie’s Dream”
• “Scenario”
  • Miles Davis – “So What”
  • Emotions – “Blind Alley”
  • Kool and the Gang – “Give It Up”
  • Kool and the Gang – “Soul Vibrations”
  • Ohio Players – “Ecstasy”
  • Brother Jack McDuff – “Oblighetto”
  • Jimi Hendrix – “Little Miss Lover”

1. Part 1: “Acknowledgement” – 7:47
2. Part 2: “Resolution” – 7:22
3. Part 3: “Pursuance”/Part 4: “Psalm” – 17:53

Personnel

• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, bandleader
• Jimmy Garrison – double bass
• Elvin Jones – drums
• McCoy Tyner – piano

Additional musicians

• Art Davis – double bass on alternate takes of “Acknowledgment”
• Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone on alternate takes of “Acknowledgment”

Production

• Michael Cuscuna – reissue production
• Bob Thiele – production

In 1996, the Parallel World label released the LP “Cambodian Rocks”, a collection of Cambodian psych and garage music from the 60s and early 70s (probably), compiled by an American tourist named Paul Wheeler from some cassettes he bought in Phnom Penh. No information on the songs was provided at all, no artist names, no song titles, and no recording dates. Four years later, Parallel World reissued this compilation on CD with a few extra tracks, but still without any identifying information. Unfortunately, it is more than likely that many of the featured musicians, showing a definite Western influence in their music, were murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime which took over power in 1975. Certainly none of them ever received any money from the sales of this compilation.

My wife introduced this album to me a few years ago and I fell in love (twice). We have since lost the original CD and case but luckily we had the vision to burn the music to our computers. We looked on Amazon the other day to see how much a new copy would cost us and we were very surprised to see it being listed at the lowest $60. What gives? I guess we will have to wait to get another physical copy.

Tracklist:

1. Yol Aularong – Jeas Cyclo “Ride Cyclo”
2. Ros Sereysothea – Chnam Oun Dop-PramMuy “I’m 16″
3. Ros Sereysothea – Tngai Neas Kyom Yam Sra “Today I Drink Wine”
4. Yol Aularong + Tuk – Sou Slarp Kroam Kombut Srey “Rather Die Under the Woman’s Sword”
5. Sinn Sissamouth – Srolanh Srey Touch “I Love Petite Woman”
6. Pan Ron – Rom Jongvak Twist “Dance Twist”
7. Pan Ron – Knyom Mun Sok Jet Te “I’m Unsatisfied”
8. Liev Tuk – Rom Sue! Sue! “Dance Soul! Soul!”
9. Ros Sereysothea – Jam 10 Kai Thiet “Wait 10 More Months”
10. Ros Sereysothea – Jah Bong Ju Aim “Old Sour & Sweet”
11. Samouth + Sothea + Ron) Maok Pi NaokWhere From?
12. Sin Sissamouth – Phneit Oun Mean Evey? “What Does Your Eyes Has?”
13. Yol Aularong – Yuvajon Kouge Jet “Broken Heart Man”
14. Meas Samon – Jol Dondeung Kone Key “Going to Get Engage”
15. Ros Sereysothea – Kerh Songsa Kyoum Thay? “Have You Seen My Boyfriend?”
16. Ros Sereysothea – Chnang Jas Bai Chgn-ainj “Old Pot, Tasty Rice”
17. Ros Sereysothea + Seang Vanthy – Kone Oksok Nas Pa “We’re Very Bored Dad!”
18. Ros Sereysothea – Kom Kung Twer Evey “Don’t Be Mad”
19. Ros Sereysothea – Penh Jet Thai Bong Mouy “I Like Only You”
20. In Yeng + Pan Ron – Sralanh Srey Chnas “I Love Mean Girl”
21. Samouth + Meas Samon – Komlos Teng Bey “Three Gentlemen”
22. Ros Sereysothea – Retrey Yung Joup Knea “The Night We Met”