Favorite Collaborations


Your favorite collaborations.  Not song writers who compose together (Lennon, McCartney; Becker, Fagen....).
Two or more extraordinary talants who come together to create  extraordinary music.
Some of my favorites
Joe Sample, Randy Crawford
Linda Ronstadt, Nelson Riddle
Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn
Jobim, Sinatra/ Jobim, Gal Costa 

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Oh roberjerman, if THAT’S the premise:

- Sam Philips and Elvis Presley.

- Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe in Rockpile.

- Dave Edmunds and The Flamin’ Groovies, for The Groovies classic Shake Some Action album.

- Dave Edmunds and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, for their Tuff Enuff album.

- Hell, anything and everything Dave Edmunds touches!

- Buddy Miller and anyone he works with, including Emmylou Harris (he’s her band leader, guitarist, and harmony vocalist on the road).

- Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons in The Flying Burrito Brothers.

- Iris DeMent and John Prine.

- Little Village: John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner.

- The Traveling Wilburys.

- Bob Dylan and The Hawks/The Band.

- Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives.

- Don and Phil Everly.

- George Martin and The Beatles.

- Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

- Phil Spector and The Wrecking Crew.

- Dann Penn and Spooner Oldham.

- Jerry Wexler and all the Atlantic Records artists he produced.

- The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section/The Swampers, The Wrecking Crew, The Funk Bothers, The Band, Booker T. & The MG’s.

- Mann & Weil, Goffin & King, Barry & Greenwich, Pomus & Shuman, Leiber & Stoller, Holland/Dozier/Holland, B. & F. Bryant, Lennon & McCartney, Jordan & Wilson, Rogers & Hart, G. & I. Gershwin.

That’ll do for starters.


The Beatles & Eric Clapton in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

Regards,
-- Al

- Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin
- Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler.
- Ray Charles and Quincy Jones
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- Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, David Grisman and John Kahn (Old and in the Way)
- Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
- Dick Dale and Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Paul McCartney and Denny Laine
- Pat Methany and Charlie Haden
- Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson