* Ambient Records, a set of four albums produced and recorded by Brian Eno

A cappella's growth is not limited to live performance, with hundreds of recorded a cappella albums produced over the past decade.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

Nonetheless, he recorded so prolifically that Coral Records was able to release brand-new albums and singles for 10 years after his death, although the technical quality was very mixed, some being studio quality and others home recordings.

In the late fifties Johnny Cash recorded songs for his first two concept albums, Songs of Our Soil and Ride This Train, in which were released in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

He returned to his country roots for albums he recorded with Mark Knopfler and Jerry Reed.

Modern Donegal fiddle music is often played in concerts and recorded on albums.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

While they did not release any albums during this period, Devo recorded a number of songs for various films and compilations since their reunion, including a cover of the Nine Inch Nails hit, " Head Like a Hole " for the film Supercop.

Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with "( Theme From ) New York, New York " in 1980.

He also recorded some albums especially dedicated to the harp: the famous Renaissance of the Celtic Harp ( 1972 ), " Harpes du Nouvel Age " ( 1985 ), and " Beyond Words " ( 2002 ).

He recorded Gettin ' Down To It ( 1969 ) and Soul on Top ( 1970 ), two albums consisting mostly of romantic ballads and jazz standards, with the Dee Felice Trio and the Louie Bellson Orchestra respectively.

Brown recorded disco material on his albums starting with 1975's Sex Machine Today, producing less than favorable results.

Janis Joplin recorded four fully conceived studio albums in her career.

Her first two albums were recorded with and fully credited to Big Brother and the Holding Company and the later two being solo albums.

As a popular psychedelic act of the late 1960s, many of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at Winterland ' 68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.

The Cardigans made their start in Malmö and recorded their albums there.

Cahit and Engin recorded two albums under the name Moğollar.

As well as playing concerts, he recorded several studio albums for Vanguard Records.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Davis recorded a series of albums with Gil Evans, often playing flugelhorn as well as trumpet.

( The albums were recorded over the same sessions.

The curved-style pan flute was popularized by the Romanian musician Gheorghe Zamfir, who toured extensively and recorded many albums of pan flute music in the 1970s, and by several other artists who began recording at the same time.

His gift for improvised counterpoint is perhaps most notable on the two albums he recorded with Mulligan (" Mulligan-Desmond Quartet " and " Two of a Mind ").

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

Collaborations with Bill Sharpe of Shakatak helped little, though two singles the duo recorded, " Change Your Mind ", did see chart action, reaching No. 17 and " No More Lies " reaching No. 35 in 1988 in Britain.

The film clips from " Subject to Change " to " Whatever you Want ", along with a live version of " Truly " ( recorded at the UNSW Roundhouse ), appear on Big Screen Television.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

His songs have been recorded by Little Big Town, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Babyface, Amy Grant, Joe Cocker, Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Ashton, Michael W. Smith, Jill Phillips, Michael Crawford, Peter Frampton, Casting Crowns and Eric Clapton, whose version of Kirkpatrick's " Change the World " won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

Later in 2000, he teamed up with Kennedy and several other songwriters ( Phil Madeira and Billy Sprague ) to record Coming From Somewhere Else, which was a CD of their own music that had previously been recorded by other artists, including " Change the World ".

He also recorded an orchestral solo album called Change We Must in 1993 ; it was released the following year.

He briefly joined the Boston punk group A Global Threat as a second singer, and recorded the full-length What The Fuck Will Change?

They recorded one more album for Arista called Change of Season.

The former was recorded in 1994 and issued as a B-side of the " Sissyneck " and " Jack-Ass " singles in 1997 while the latter appeared on the 2002 album Sea Change.

Releases include: Fluctuations, with trombonist Monique Buzzarté ( Deep Listening Institute ), selected as one of the top 50 recordings of 2008 by The Wire ( London ) and awarded an Aaron Copeland Fund for Music Recording Program Grant ; Ort, recorded with Berlin collaborator Konrad Sprenger ( Choose Records ), selected as one of the top 50 recordings of 2004 by The Wire ; Suspended Music, in collaboration with Deep Listening Band ( Periplum ); Change of Direction ( New Albion ); and Body Music ( XI ).

Vocalist Henry Small was brought in, and the new four-piece line-up ( Small / Mitchell / Harlow / Norton ) recorded the album Small Change, which was released later in 1981.

Small Change was recorded, direct to 2-track stereo tape, July 15, 19, 20, 21 and 29, 1976 at the Wally Heider Recording Studio, in Hollywood, USA under the production of Bones Howe.

In reaction to these hardships Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds Waits in much more cynical and pessimistic mood lyrically than his previous albums, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking " and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart " presenting a bare and honest portrayal of alcoholism, while also cementing Waits ' hard-living reputation in the eyes of many fans.

Playing for Change recorded a version featuring Grandpa Elliott, Roger Ridley, and other performers.

Some reference sources erroneously list an outtake from the earlier Presley film, Charro !, " Let's Forget About the Stars " ( a song also released on the Let's Be Friends album ), as being a song recorded for Change of Habit.

She recorded a cover of Eric Carmen's Top 20 single " Change of Heart ," which failed to chart.

The band recorded the songs " Leather Jacket " ( written by Jessee ) and " Birds " ( an instrumental written by bassist Robert Sledge ) during the Reinhold Messner sessions ; the songs were not included on the album, but were released as b-sides on the " Army " and " Don't Change Your Plans " singles.

He stood in for Paul Gonsalves in February 1964 ( with whom he also recorded twice in 1965 ( Just Friends and Change of Setting )) when the Ellington orchestra played at the Royal Festival Hall.

Interestingly, the length of " The Change " is recorded in scripture to be 49, 949 years, indicating that the period of the Swords universe may in fact be a twilight period ( compare to Götterdämmerung ).

With this band, Knight recorded a handful of regional hits for local Lucky Eleven Records, part of the Cameo-Parkway Records group, including his self-penned generation gap anthem " A Change On The Way ," as well as scoring two national hits, a tasteful cover of the Yardbirds ' "( Mister, You're A ) Better Man Than I " and his ultra-lounge reading of Ben E. King's " I ( Who Have Nothing )" ( which came close to making the national top 40, peaking at # 46 ).

The group briefly reformed in 1975 and recorded an album ( Change ) for the Epic label.

They recorded their first demo entitled I Never Change in 1992.

The Mudmen have recently recorded the music for the Edmonton Oilers TV show Oil Change 3.