Heroes (Mark O'Connor album)
Heroes is an album by Mark O'Connor, in which he plays duets alongside his childhood fiddle heroes, including Jean-Luc Ponty, Benny Thomasson, Byron Berline, Stéphane Grappelli, Johnny Gimble, and others. It crosses a variety of musical genres and contains recordings made from 1976 to 1992.Track listing
Personnel
On New Country:
On The Devil Comes Back to Georgia:
- Charlie Daniels - fiddle
- Johnny Cash - Vocals
- Marty Stuart - Vocals
- Travis Tritt - Vocals
On Fiddlin' Around:
On Gold Rush:
On House of the Rising Sun:
On Diggy Diggy Lo:
- Doug Kershaw
- Lionel Cartwright
- Clinton Gregory
On Sweet Jole Blon:
On Sadness/Darlin' Waltz:
On Jerusalem's Ridge:
On Sally Johnson:
- Terry Morris - fiddle
- Texas Shorty - fiddle
- Benny Thomasson - fiddle
On Ashokan Farewell:
- Pinchas Zukerman - fiddle
On This Can't Be Love:
- Stéphane Grappelli - fiddle
On Ain't Misbehavin':
- Stéphane Grappelli - fiddle
On Nomad:
- L. Shankar - 10-string double fiddle
also
- Mark O'Connor - Producer
- Mark O'Connor - Mixer
- Rob Feaster - Mixer for tracks 2,6, and 7
- Mark O'Connor - Music Editing
- Denny Purcell - Mastering
- Craig Miller - Executive Producer
- Laura LiPuma-Nash - Art Direction/Design
- Kip Lott - Photography/Background Painting
- Jonita Aadland - Additional Photos
- Jim Dant - Gold violin
Chart performance