You have to admire Alicia Keys commitment to her street-nice vision. Assistant engineer: Nathan Yarboro, Mark Petaccia and Josh Smith ( engineer) engineer: Vance Powell producer and mixer: Jack White ( rock & blues multi-instrumentalist, The White Stripes, Third Man Records) additional horn: Jack Hale ( trombone) baritone guitar and bass guitar: Jack Lawrence ( Member of The Greenhornes & The Raconteurs) cello: Lindsay Smith-Trostle double bass: Michael Rinne guitar and membranophone: Jack White ( rock & blues multi-instrumentalist, The White Stripes, Third Man Records) horn: Wayne Jackson ( trumpet/trombone (Memphis Horns/Mar-Keys)) piano: Laura Matula violin: Lyndsay Pruett vocals: Alicia Keys and Jack White ( rock & blues multi-instrumentalist, The White Stripes, Third Man Records) recorded at: Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and Sputnik Sound in Nashville, Tennessee, United States mixed at: Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States recording of: Another Way to Die writer: Jack White ( rock & blues multi-instrumentalist, The White Stripes, Third Man Records) publisher: Colpix Music, Inc., Third String Tunes ( Jack White's publishing society) and United Lion Music Inc. By now established as a major and talented force in the mainstream music world, Alicia Keys has perhaps earned the right to explore a little, to venture into new genres while still keeping a foot firmly planted in the R&B/neo-soul she grew out of. The Piano Woman makes soulful power ballads for the hip-hop generation.