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Coming Home

Release date: August 5, 2016
Label: Rounder Records

Produced by Gregg Field, Mark O’Connor and Forrest O’Connor                                                      

Recording Engineer: Neal Cappellino assisted by Owen Lewis at House of Blues, Nashville                                                               

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 11 mixed by Gregg Field at G Studio Digital

Tracks 4, 6, 10, 12 mixed by Mark O’Connor at G Studio Digital                                                         

Assistant Engineers: Seth Presant and Jorge Velasko                                                                                 

Mastered by Paul Blakemore at CMG Mastering                                                       

 

Photography: John David Pittman

Package Design: Jimmy Hole

 

 

 

Mark O’Connor − violin, background vocals

Maggie O’Connor − violin, background vocals

Forrest O’Connor − mandolin, lead vocals, background vocals

Kate Lee – violin, lead vocals, background vocals

Joe Smart – guitar, background vocals

Geoff Saunders − bass, banjo, background vocals

Additional percussion added on select tracks by Gregg Field

 

                                    

 

The O'Connor Band thanks: 

 

Joe Smart and Geoff Saunders for their incredible musicianship and dedication to our band; Gregg Field for his keen stewardship of this album and making us better each and every take; Neal Cappellino for creating such beautiful sounds on our instruments and voices; John Virant at Rounder Records for having more O’Connor music return to the label; Jim Shirey, Pat Alger, and Jon Weisberger for beautiful songwriting; John David Pittman for poetically capturing the family on camera.

 

Seth Presant, Owen Lewis, Jorge Velasko, Mary Hogan, Concord Music Group, D’Addario Strings, O’Connor Method and A New American School of String Playing, Shar Music, CAMI and Cadenza Artists and their work on “An Appalachian Christmas,” Shelly Berg and the Frost School of Music, David Wykoff, Wayne Halper, Kris Wilkinson. Forrest and Kate wish to thank Suzanne MacKillop, Bill and Debbie Gurnow, and Patrick Gurnow.

 

Dedicated to Autumn Rose O'Connor. 

 

 

   1.   Always Do (3:13)

         (Jim Shirey)

         Near Occasions Music (BMI)

 

   2.   Coming Home (3:23)

         (Forrest O’Connor)

         Tall Tree Music Worldwide (BMI)

 

 

   3.   I Haven’t Said I Love You in A While (3:54)

         (Forrest O’Connor)

         Tall Tree Music Worldwide (BMI)

 

   4.   Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? (3:03)

         (Mae Carver)

         Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group (ASCAP/BMI)

 

   5.   What Have I Been Saying? (3:03)

         (Forrest O’Connor)

         Tall Tree Music Worldwide (BMI)

 

   6.   Jerusalem Ridge (3:44)

         (Bill Monroe, arranged by Mark O’Connor)

         Unichappell Music, Inc (BMI)

 

   7.   The Sweet Ones (3:09)

         (Kate Lee-Jon Weisberger)

         Kate Lee Songs (ASCAP) / Use Your Words Music (ASCAP/BMI)

 

   8.   Blacktop Boy (3:41)

         (Kate Lee-Pat Alger)

         Kate Lee Songs (ASCAP) / Rosebriar Music (ASCAP)

 

   9.   You Too (3:45)

         (Forrest O’Connor-Jim Shirey)

         Tall Tree Music Worldwide (BMI) / Near Occasions Music (BMI)

 

10.   Fishers Hornpipe (3:42)

         (Traditional, arranged by Mark O’Connor)

         Mark O’Connor Musik International (BMI)

 

11.   Old Black Creek (3:36)

         (Kate Lee-Pat Alger)

         Kate Lee Songs (ASCAP) / Rosebriar Music (ASCAP)

 

12.   Fiddler Going Home (5:03)

         (Mark O’Connor)

         Mark O’Connor Musik International (BMI)