Date Artist / Film Description 20-23 Nov 08 Hughes AuFray A new album of duets from Hughes AuFray as he revisits the Dylan tunes with his French translations that made him famous (both Hughes and Bob!) in 60s France. With Larry Campbell, David Kemper, Byron Isaacs (Ollabelle) and Brad Cole (Phil Collins). Produced by Phillipe Rault. 20 Nov 07 Madrugada Pedal steel guitar on "What's On Your Mind?", great new track from Madrugada. 03 Apr 07 Jakob Dylan Fiddle on a new track of Jakob's that hopefully will make it onto the new album. Produced by my old pal Tony Berg. Jakob and I hadn't met before as adults; when we last saw each other I was 18 and he was 5 (!!) 11 Oct 06 Teddy Thompson Played a bunch of stuff for Teddy's new trad-country project for Verve; at Brad Albetta's Monkeyboy studios in Brooklyn. 19-21 Jun 06 Antony Hegarty I produced and played on a couple of tunes for the Todd Haynes Dylan film "I'm Not There"; Antony did his interpretations of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", and "Pressing On". 10 Jun 06 Pieta Brown Violin and viola on her new album, recorded at Master Mix in Minneapolis with Bo Ramsey producing (and playing guitar of course!) 06 Apr 06 Sloan Wainwright Blues fiddle on a song for Sloan's new CD. 09 Mar 06 Yo La Tengo Played violin on a bunch of songs for the new CD, over at my project studio. Garo Yellin played cello. 06-07 Jul 05 Linda Thompson What can I say; the inimitable. 08 Jun 05 RV Barry Sonnenfeld's new film; I arranged and played on the version of "Never Ending Song of Love" that Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenowith sing in the film. 02 Jun 05 Teddy Thompson and Rufus Wainwright A live-in-the-studio version of "King Of The Road" for Ang Lee's film "Brokeback Mountain" -- just bass, drums, me on mandolin, and Teddy and Rufus on vocals. 16 May 05 Darden Smith Darden's new CD, produced by Stewart Lerman. 03 May 05 Bill Deasy Newcomer Bill Deasy, produced by Kevin Salem; pedal steel guitar. Jun 04 Suzzy and Maggie Roche Sessions for the new Red House CD by Suz and Maggie, produced as always by Stewart Lerman. Just wonderful stuff. 09 Jul 03 Stepford Wives That's right, the Paramount remake directed by Frank Oz. I wrote and performed the music for the square dance scene. 26-27 Jun 03 Radford Three string arrangements for Radford/Johnny Mead's new album in L.A.; another cool Jolene Cherry project. 18 Mar 03 Brad Roberts For Brad's current project "Songs of the Unforgiven", recorded at Sacred Heart Church in Duluth, Minnesota (using their pipe organ); we did string overdubs at Magic Shop in NYC. 07-09 Oct 02 Teitur Producer Rupert Hine and Universal exec Jolene Cherry brought me out for this one; I played a LOT of stuff in three days and had a great time. 15 Jan 02 T-Bone Burnett A session for Wim Wenders' film "The Soul of A Man" about blues music; T-Bone played "Don't Dog Your Woman" and Lisa Rinzler shot it as we recorded live at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles 12 Nov 01 Loudon Wainwright A live session for the new PBS series "Life 360"; Loudon performed his WTC song and "White Winos". I played dobro on the former, and played violin on the latter (as well as wrote the arrangement for string quartet) 18 Apr 01 Lucinda Williams Lucinda contributed "Cold Cold Heart" to a new Hank Willams tribute album. Colin Linden played bottleneck and produced. 09 Apr 01 Suzzy Roche I played on Suz's new project of songs about prayer. 29 Jan 01 Loudon Wainwright III Various overdubs on Loudon's new one. 24 Oct 00 Lucinda Williams I wrote and played some intimate (trio) violin/viola arrangements on Lucinda's new record, as well as various overdubs. 07 Jun 00 Emmylou Harris I recorded Emmylou's vocal on the new end title song for "Songcatcher" at Emerald Sound in Nashville. I did all the other recording and playing in my project studio. 05 Apr 00 Dar Williams I wrote a string arrangement and played violin on Dar's new album, produced by Stuart Lerman. 04 Nov 99 John Smith Fiddle and Dobro; produced by Pete Gallway. 13 Oct 99 O.P.M. Pedal steel guitar (pretty wacky too) for this new white rap group on Atlantic. 06 Oct 99 Suzzy Roche Suz's hew CD for Red House, produced by Stuart Lerman; another great one. 12 Apr 99 Chris Harford Guitar, fiddle, banjo, and pedal steel on Chris' new CD. 01 Mar 99 Loudon Wainwright III An album of Loudon's topical songs, written over the years for NPR. With Chaim Tannenbaum, Greg Cohen, and various guests including a brief Roches reunion on one song. Produced by Joe Boyd for Rykodisc, and engineered by John Wood. 21 Jan 99 Giant Sand Mostly pedal steel on Howe & Co.'s new record for Branson & Co.'s new label ("V-2"). Produced by Kevin Salem. 11 Dec 98 Vitamin C (Colleen Fitzpatrick) Guitars and pedal steel on the song "Unhappy Aniversary" (no relation to the LWIII tune); produced by Josh Deutsch and Gary Hughes. 12 Aug 98 Bob Neuwirth Dobro on three songs; this is a collaboration with esteemed Cuban composer Jose Maria Viter, recorded in Havanna. Wonderful and eclectic, and very different for Bobby. 14 Jul 98 Sissel Various instruments; the first American record by Scandinavian artist Sissel (best known here as the woman who did the Irish vocalese on the "Titanic" score); produced by Rick Chertoff 19 Feb 98 Curtis Stigers Fiddle on two songs; produced by Bob Thiele Jr. for Columbia (a new label and new sound for Curtis). 13 Jun 97 Doro Pedal steel guitar on one song; produced by Jim Harry. 14 May 97 Louise Taylor Produced by Peter Gallway. 12-13 May 97 Jules Shear Various instruments on Jules' new "Duets" CD; on the folky side, but with his unusual pop style adding a twist or two. 01 May 97 Ilene Weiss Violin, mandolin and Dobro on Ilene's new CD produced by Peter Gallway. 02-21 Mar 97 Iggy Pop Iggy has written his first film score for an independant feature called "The Brave", directed by, co-written by, and starring Johnny Depp (with a cameo by Marlon Brando); he brought me out to L.A. to play on the score. It was just me, Iggy, his drummer Larry, and percussionist Steve Forman locked in the studio-- at the end of three weeks we had a score. Iggy's instincts were excellent; very few pop artists have the knack of writing music for film. 13 Dec 96 Tom Russell Violin mandolin, electric slide guitar and Dobro on two recording projects Tom is working on. The first is a "best of", inculding duets with Nancy Griffith, Iris DeMent and others. The second is a collection of Tom's "cowboy" songs. Both are, as usual, full of wonderful writing and performing. 27 Oct 96 Silverchair Violin on a song with the refrain "I live in the cemetery..."; stern lyrics by a very sweet, unpretentious, talented trio of kids that seem to me like they just wanna have fun. The session was on the night the Yankees won the world series, and they got quite a kick out of yelling out the window with all the other New Yorkers. Jane Scarpantoni wrote the string chart, and it's quite good in that it has a real rock attitude. 11 Jul 96 The Courage Brothers (independent) Pedal steel on three or four songs. Kevin Salem produced; I really have been having fun playing on his sessions, as he loves melding different musical styles, both old & new. 08 Jul 96 Lulu Moon (Reprise Records) Pedal steel guitar on one song; Russ Titelman producer. 27 May 96 Allen Ginsberg (Mercury Records) Recording session for "Ballad Of The Skeletons" (the piece we did at the Tibet House benefit). When we did it live Allen read, I played electric guitar, and Lenny Kaye (of the Patti Smith Group) played bass. It seems Danny Goldberg was in the audience and really loved it. I'm overjoyed to see that Danny intends Mercury Records to become involved in things like this (proving there is life beyond MTV). For the session Mark Ribot was added on guitar. We also did a recording of "Amazing Grace" with new lyrics by AG. 07 May 96 Marshall Crenshaw (Razor & Tie Records) Fiddle on Marshall's "Until I Hear It From You" (The Gin Blossoms had the hit) for "In Their Own Words, Vol. 3"; Marshall played acoustic and Andy York (from Mellencamp's band) played electric baritone guitar. Lotsa fun. 16 March 96 Various artists (Rounder Records?) This was done at Hit Shack B in Austin on the last day of SXSW for a compilation album of truckers' songs. If you dropped by the studio that day and could sing or play, you were probably on the session. I played fiddle on "Six Days On The Road" (with Gurf Morlix and various members of The Skeletons among others). 27 Feb 96 Katy Moffatt (Watermelon Records) National Duolian, Dobro and fiddle on Katy's new record, produced by Tom Russell. 19 Jan 96 Kevin Salem (Roadrunner Records) Pedal steel guitar on 3 or 4 songs from Kevin's new solo record, "Glimmer", produced by Niko Bolas. 03-09 Jan 96 Bob Neuwirth (Watermelon Records) Players included Rosie Flores, Peter Case, Steven Soles, Billy Swan, Chuck Profitt, Victoria Willliams, Mark Olsen, and the Williams Brothers. Lots of really cool stuff; hope it all makes the final cut.