The Nail File: The Best of Jimmy Nail
The Nail File: The Best of Jimmy Nail is a compilation album by English singer-songwriter and actor Jimmy Nail, released in 1997 by East West Records. It contains selected singles and tracks from Nail's first five studio albums—Take It or Leave It, Growing Up in Public, Crocodile Shoes, Big River, and Crocodile Shoes II —plus a Nail-sung song from the soundtrack to the film Evita, as well as two new tracks. One of the new tracks, "Black and White", was released as single, reaching number 76 in the UK singles chart in October 1997.
Personnel
Adapted from the liner notes for The Nail File: The Best of Jimmy Nail and corresponding studio albums.Musicians
- Jimmy Nail – vocals, harmonica, organ solo
- Trevor Brewis – drums
- Marcus Brown – accordion, keyboards, organ, piano, percussion, backing vocals, string arrangements, drum programming
- Hugh Burns – acoustic guitar
- Andy Caine – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Phil Caffrey – backing vocals
- Guy Chambers – piano
- Alan Clark – organ
- B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
- David Cullen – additional orchestrations
- Danny Cummings – tambourine, percussion
- Martin Ditcham – percussion
- Melvin Duffy – pedal steel guitar
- Geoff Dugmore – drums, percussion
- Frank Gibbon – backing vocals
- John Giblin – bass guitar
- Gary Husband – drums
- Chester Kamen – electric guitar
- Mark Knopfler – lead guitar
- George Lamb – backing vocals
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – orchestrations
- Tony McAnaney – guitar, bass guitar, classical guitar, pedal steel guitar, harmonica, bouzouki
- Dominic Miller – guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Tessa Niles – backing vocals
- Fionn O'Lochlainn – bass guitar, mandolin
- Pino Palladino – bass guitar
- Phil Palmer – guitar
- Rick Parfitt – guitar
- Ranking Roger – featured artist
- Jackie Rawe – backing vocals
- Juliet Roberts – backing vocals
- Steve Robson – piano, keyboards, synth bass, clarinet, fiddle, ocarina
- Danny Schogger – synthesiser, Rhodes piano
- Beverley Skeete – backing vocals
- Paul Smith – drums, percussion
- James Stevenson – guitar
- Dave Taggart – backing vocals
- Roger Taylor – drums
- Geoff Whitehorn – guitar
- Paul "Wix" Wickens – keyboards
- Paul "Tubbs" Williams – backing vocals
Technical
- Jimmy Nail – producer
- John Allinson – assistant engineer
- David Caddick – producer
- Brad Davis – additional recording engineer
- Geoff Foster – assistant engineer
- Dylan Gallagher – engineer
- Sam Gibson – assistant engineer
- Tarquin Gotch – music supervisor
- Ricky Graham – assistant engineer
- Simon Hurrell – engineer
- Cameron Jenkins – engineer
- Emma Kamen – music supervisor
- Jon Kelly – producer, mixing
- Dick Lewzey – engineer
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – producer
- Tony McAnaney – producer
- Madonna – remixing
- Guy Massey – assistant engineer
- Chris Neil – producer
- Will O'Donovan – assistant engineer
- Alan Parker – producer
- Lee "Millhouse" Philips – assistant engineer
- Guy Pratt – producer
- David Reitzas – engineer, remixing
- David Richards – producer
- Steve Robson – producer, engineer
- Danny Schogger – producer
- Robin Sellars – engineer
- Mark "Spike" Stent – engineer
- Graeme Stewart – assistant engineer
- Danton Supple – assistant engineer
- Roger Taylor – producer
- Nigel Wright – producer, remixing