Playing Favorites (10,000 Maniacs album)

Playing Favorites is a live album by 10,000 Maniacs released in 2016. The album was recorded on September 13, 2014, at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, New York. This is their first live album with current lead vocalist Mary Ramsey and also marks the return of founding member John Lombardo who contributes lead vocals on "My Mother the War".[2]

Playing Favorites
Live album by
ReleasedJune 3, 2016 (2016-06-03)
RecordedSeptember 13, 2014
VenueReg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown, New York (additional recording and mixing at the Fun House, Silver Creek, New York)
GenreAlternative rock, folk rock
LanguageEnglish
10,000 Maniacs chronology
Twice Told Tales
(2015)
Playing Favorites
(2016)
Live at the Belly Up
(2017)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Track listing

  1. "What's the Matter Here" (Rob Buck, Natalie Merchant) – 5:11
  2. "Like the Weather" (Merchant) – 4:10
  3. "Love Among the Ruins" (Jerome Augustyniak, Buck, Dennis Drew, Steve Gustafson, John Lombardo, Mary Ramsey, Jules Shear) – 4:15
  4. "Trouble Me" (Drew, Merchant) – 3:25
  5. "More Than This" (Bryan Ferry) – 4:08
  6. "Can't Ignore the Train" (Lombardo, Merchant)  – 3:29
  7. "Stockton Gala Days" (Augustyniak, Buck, Drew, Gustafson, Merchant) – 7:38
  8. "Because the Night" (Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen) – 5:38
  9. "Rainy Day" (Augustyniak, Buck, Drew, Gustafson, Lombardo, Ramsey) – 6:56
  10. "Candy Everybody Wants" (Drew, Merchant) – 3:21
  11. "My Sister Rose" (Augustyniak, Merchant) – 4:19
  12. "Hey Jack Kerouac" (Buck, Merchant) – 3:46
  13. "These Are Days" (Buck, Merchant) – 5:03
  14. "My Mother the War" (Lombardo, Merchant, Michael Walsh) - 4:42

Personnel

10,000 Maniacs

Additional musicians

  • Melanie Luciano – backing vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Bryan Eckenrode – cello
  • Oliver Chezliak – trombone
  • Eric Crittenden – alto saxophone
  • Robert Browning – tenor saxophone

Additional album credits

  • Produced and by Armand John Petri and 10,000 Maniacs
  • Engineered and mixed by Armand John Petri
  • Mastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios, New York

References

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