title: Novi Novog
text: # Novi Novog
  
  Novi Novog is an American viola player. She is sometimes simply credited as "Novi" and is a cousin of Lauren Wood (also known as "Chunky"). In 1973, Novi became one of three members of her cousin's band Chunky, Novi and Ernie with the bassist Ernie Emerita.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### Albums (with band)
  
  * Chunky, Novi & Ernie (1973) viola, keyboards, background vocals
  * Chunky, Novi & Ernie (1977) viola, keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals
  
  ### Session work
  
  * Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (1974) viola on "Black Water" and "Spirit"
  * Montrose - Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose! (1975) viola on "Whaler"
  * Carly Simon - Another Passenger - (1976) viola
  * Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets (1976) viola
  * Lauren Wood - Lauren Wood (1979) - viola, synthesizer
  * Tom Johnston - Still Feels Good (1981) viola
  * Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life (1984) violin
  * The Time - Ice Cream Castle (1984) violin
  * Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain (1984) violin, viola
  * Prince & the Revolution - Around the World in a Day (1985) violin
  * Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat (1986) viola
  * 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe (1987) viola
  * Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw (1991) viola
  * Christopher Cross - Rendezvous (1993) viola
  * David Arkenstone - Another Star in the Sky (1995) viola on "Voices of the Night". and "Canyon of the Moon"
  * Freeway Philharmonic - Road to Joy (1995) viola
  * Freeway Philharmonic - Sonic Detour (1995) viola
  * Lauren Wood - Lauren Wood (1997)
  * Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues (1998) viola
  * Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways (1999) viola
  * Michael Jackson - Invincible (2001) viola, contractor
  * Frank Zappa - Joe's Camouflage (2014) viola, keyboards, vocals (June 1975-September 1975 The Mothers of Invention rehearsal recordings)
  * Valerie Carter - The Way It Is (1996) viola
  