Heroes (Mark O'Connor album)

Heroes is an album by Mark O'Connor, in which he plays duets alongside his childhood fiddle heroes, including Jean-Luc Ponty, Benny Thomasson, Byron Berline, Stéphane Grappelli, Johnny Gimble, and others. It crosses a variety of musical genres and contains recordings made from 1976 to 1992.

Heroes
Studio album by Mark O'Connor
Released	1993
Recorded	Various; mainly in 1992
Genre	Country
Length	66:21
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Mark O'Connor, Jim Ed Norman
Mark O'Connor chronology
Johnny Appleseed (1992) Heroes (1993) The Night Before Christmas (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"New Country"	Jean-Luc Ponty	3:54
2.	"The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"	Charlie Daniels	4:13
3.	"Fiddlin' Around"	Johnny Gimble	4:49
4.	"Gold Rush"	Bill Monroe	4:36
5.	"House of the Rising Sun"	Traditional	7:52
6.	"Diggy Diggy Lo"	J. D. Miller	2:48
7.	"Sweet Jole Blon"	Doug Kershaw	2:21
8.	"Sadness/Darlin' Waltz"	Traditional	2:51
9.	"Jerusalem's Ridge"	Bill Monroe	3:27
10.	"Sally Johnson"	Traditional	5:09
11.	"Ashokan Farewell"	Jay Ungar	4:52
12.	"This Can't Be Love"	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	5:27
13.	"Ain't Misbehavin'"	Thomas Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf	5:30
14.	"Nomad"	L. Shankar, Caroline Shankar	8:00

Personnel

• Mark O'Connor - fiddle

On New Country:

• Jean-Luc Ponty - fiddle

On The Devil Comes Back to Georgia:

• Charlie Daniels - fiddle
• Johnny Cash - Vocals
• Marty Stuart - Vocals
• Travis Tritt - Vocals

On Fiddlin' Around:

• Johnny Gimble - fiddle

On Gold Rush:

• Byron Berline - fiddle
• Bill Monroe - Mandolin

On House of the Rising Sun:

• Vassar Clements -fiddle

On Diggy Diggy Lo:

• Doug Kershaw
• Lionel Cartwright
• Clinton Gregory

On Sweet Jole Blon:

• Doug Kershaw - fiddle

On Sadness/Darlin' Waltz:

• Buddy Spicher - fiddle

On Jerusalem's Ridge:

• Kenny Baker - fiddle

On Sally Johnson:

• Terry Morris - fiddle
• Texas Shorty - fiddle
• Benny Thomasson - fiddle

On Ashokan Farewell:

• Pinchas Zukerman - fiddle

On This Can't Be Love:

• Stéphane Grappelli - fiddle

On Ain't Misbehavin':

• Stéphane Grappelli - fiddle

On Nomad:

• L. Shankar - 10-string double fiddle

also

• Mark O'Connor - Producer
• Mark O'Connor - Mixer
• Rob Feaster - Mixer for tracks 2,6, and 7
• Mark O'Connor - Music Editing
• Denny Purcell - Mastering
• Craig Miller - Executive Producer
• Laura LiPuma-Nash - Art Direction/Design
• Kip Lott - Photography/Background Painting
• Jonita Aadland - Additional Photos
• Jim Dant - Gold violin

Chart performance

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	46
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	14