A Long and Winding Road

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A Long and Winding Road
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 29, 2008
RecordedFebruary 2008
GenrePop, Standards
LabelPS Classics
ProducerJeffrey Lesser
Maureen McGovern chronology
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Maureen McGovern
(2005)
A Long and Winding Road
(2008)

A Long and Winding Road is Maureen McGovern's twelfth studio album and was released in 2008 by PS Classics. It is a cover album of songs that were from the 1960s and early 1970s, written by notable songwriters of that era. Inside the album cover includes an essay by Philip Himberg (who is the Producing Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program) that covers Maureen McGovern's making of the album and the growth of the Great American Songbook during the 1960s.

Track listing[edit]

Album credits[edit]

  • Music director/arranger – Jeff Harris
  • Special guest appearance by – Jay Leonhart
  • Produced by – Jeffrey Lesser
  • Co-produced by – Maureen McGovern
  • Executive producer – Dan Fortune
  • A&R director – Philip Chaffin

Personnel[edit]

  • Jeff Harris – piano
  • Jay Leonhart – bass
  • Lou Marini Jr. – saxophone
  • Jeffrey Carney – bass on "Circle Game," "Cowboy," and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
  • Joseph Passaro – percussion
  • Cenovia Cummins – violin
  • Suzanne Chaplin – violin
  • Debra Shufelt-Dine – viola
  • Dorothy Lawson – cello
  • Recorded at Avatar Studios and Clinton Recording Studios, February 2008[citation needed]
  • Recorded by: Tom Lazarus
  • Pro Tools operator: Bart Migal
  • Assistant engineer: Tim Mitchell
  • Mixed by: Jeffrey Lesser
  • Mastered by: Joe Lambert, Trutone Mastering
  • Art direction & design: John Costa, New Orleans
  • Photographs by: Deborah Feingold
  • Additional photos courtesy of: Maureen McGovern

For PS Classics, LLC[edit]

  • Executive producer: Tommy Krasker
  • A&R direction: Philip Chaffin
  • Staff engineer: Bart Migal
  • Editorial coordinator: Clifton Gutesman
  • Assistant to the producers: Robbie Rozelle