Up Close & Personal is Vicki Genfan

Vicki Genfan

Vicki Genfan is an American multi-instrumentalist, fingerstyle guitarist, composer and singer.- Biography :Vicki Genfan took up the guitar at the age of five. Her father played 12-string guitar, mandolin and fiddle and had a good voice, her older brother played guitar too. She studied classical...

's third available release. The double CD features the first disk of original instrumentals, titled Up Close, and a second, vocal-based disk, called Personal. Each disc contains a QuickTime

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

 video, showing clips of recording sessions and snapshots of Genfan as well as of the other recording artists. The double-CD features both Genfan's guitar virtuosity as well as her singer-songwriter abilities. Most of the songs are recorded with accompanying musicians.

Track listing

Disk 1, Up Close Atomic Reshuffle Let It Rain In A Mood Kali Dreams Luna Ahumada Joy Si New Grass Longest Night Catch Me Jamanolo

Disk 2, Personal Don't Give Up On Me Norwegian Wood Love Thing When You Are Winter What's Going On Ain't Got Love Living In The Country So What's It To Ya Carry Me Home Eleanor

Composing credits

All songs by Vicki Genfan

Vicki Genfan

Vicki Genfan is an American multi-instrumentalist, fingerstyle guitarist, composer and singer.- Biography :Vicki Genfan took up the guitar at the age of five. Her father played 12-string guitar, mandolin and fiddle and had a good voice, her older brother played guitar too. She studied classical...

, except

• "Jamanolo" by Vicki Genfan & Manolo Badrena
• "Norwegian Wood" (i.e. Norwegian Wood
  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  "Norwegian Wood " is a song by The Beatles, first released on the 1965 album Rubber Soul....
  
  ) by John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   & Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
  
• "Love Thing" lyrics by Meg Garvey
• "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....
  
  
• "Ain't Got Love" by Chris Jones
• "Living In The Country" by David Rumpler and Vicki Genfan
• "What's It To Ya" by Vicki Genfan and Kim Loren
• "Eleanor" by Vicki Genfan and Everett Bradley

Personnel

• Vicki Genfan
  Vicki Genfan
  Vicki Genfan is an American multi-instrumentalist, fingerstyle guitarist, composer and singer.- Biography :Vicki Genfan took up the guitar at the age of five. Her father played 12-string guitar, mandolin and fiddle and had a good voice, her older brother played guitar too. She studied classical...
  
   - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synth guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, vocals, keys
• Ian Melrose - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synth guitar, Dobro, mandolin, low whistle, low whistle choir, shaker
• Steve Jordan
  Steve Jordan
  Steve Jordan is the name of:*Steve Jordan , American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and music producer from New York City*Esteban Jordan , American conjunto and Tejano musician...
  
  
• Manolo Badrena
  Manolo Badrena
  Manolo Badrena is a percussionist most noted for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1977. He has made contributions to over 100 recordings that span jazz, world music, pop, and Latin music...
  
   - shakers, vocal chant, drums, percussion
• Gil Goldstein
  Gil Goldstein
  Gil Goldstein is American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.He began studying accordion at age 5, but later moved on to cello and piano. He studied at the Berklee College of Music and by 1973 was working with Pat Martino, Lee Konitz, and others. He started with the...
  
   - acoustic piano, Wurlitzer
• Rob Paparozzi - harmonica
• Daniel A. Wiess - Hammond organ
• John Mettam - drums & percussion, glockenspiel
• Jon Albrink - bass guitar
• Bryant Wilder - bass guitar
• Jess Willoughby - bass guitar
• Barb Merjan - drums
• Janelle Burdell - percussion, udu drum
• Sonya Heller - vocals
• Everett Bradley
  Everett Bradley
  Everett Lewis Bradley was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon.He competed for a United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the pentathlon where he won the silver medal....
  
  - vocals, loop
• Jenn Hopper - vocals
• Penny Mealing - vocals, shaker
• Erika Luckett - vocals
• Kerstin Blodig - vocal Ker-pad, acoustic guitar
• Ian Melrose - producer
• Vicki genfan, Tay Hoyle - co-producers
• Tay Hoyle, Dae Bennet, Brian Dozoretz - recording engineers
• Tay Hoyle, Ian Melrose - mixing