Album Liner Notes
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)