Playing Favorites
Personnel: John Lombardo (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Jeff Erickson (guitar); Melanie Luciano (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Mary Ramsey (violin, viola); Bryan Eckenrode (cello); Eric Crittenden (alto saxophone); Robert Browning (tenor saxophone); Oliver Chezliak (trombone); Dennis Drew (piano, Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards); Steve Gustafson (bass guitar); Jerome Augustyniak (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Armand Petri.Recording information: Fun House, Silver Creek, NY (09/13/2014); Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown, NY (09/13/2014).Photographers: Don Hill; Mike Thut; Lori Savaree; Gregory Hodges; Chad Ecklof.Arriving on the heels of the veteran jangle folk-pop outfit's 35th anniversary, the aptly named Playing Favorites finds 10,000 Maniacs delivering a (mostly) career-spanning show before an adoring crowd at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in their native Jamestown, New York. Only the group's second live album in three decades, the 14-track set is also