Acadie (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Acadie
Type = Studio album
Artist = Daniel Lanois


Released = September 26 1989
Recorded = ???
Genre = Rock
Length = 41:03
Label = Opal Records
Producer = Daniel Lanois
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4sjm7i2jg76r link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Daniel_Lanois link]
Last album =
This album = "Acadie" (1989)
Next album = "For the Beauty of Wynona" (1993)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = 2005 reissue cover

"Acadie" is the debut album by record producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois. It was largely written and recorded in the city of New Orleans. Lanois sings on it in both French and English, sometimes even on the same track.

The album was originally released in 1989 (see 1989 in music) on Opal Records. It was reissued in 2005 (see 2005 in music) on ANTI-, with new cover art (but otherwise identical to the original.)

"Acadie" was named the 20^th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book "The Top 100 Canadian Albums".

Track listing

All tracks written by Daniel Lanois unless otherwise noted.

# "Still Water" – 4:29
# "The Maker" – 4:13
# "O Marie" – 3:13
# "Jolie Louise" – 2:41
# "The Fisherman's Daughter" – 2:47
# "White Mustang II" (Lanois, Brian Eno) – 2:54
# "Under a Stormy Sky" – 2:20
# "Where the Hawkwind Kills" – 3:51
# "Silium's Hill" – 3:00
# "Ice" – 4:26
# "St. Ann's Gold" (Malcolm Burn, Lanois) – 3:31
# "Amazing Grace" (traditional, arranged by Lanois, John Newton) – 3:47

"Still Water" and "The Maker" were released as singles.

Personnel

*Daniel Lanois – guitar, bass, vocals, omnichord
*Malcolm Burn – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals
*Brian Eno – keyboards, vocals
*Tony Hall – bass
*Willie Greene – drums

Additional personnel

*Adam Clayton – bass
*Larry Mullen Jr. – drums
*Pierre Marchand – keyboards
*Mason Ruffner – guitar
*Roger Eno – piano
*Ed Roth – accordion
*James May – trumpet
*Cyril Neville – percussion
*Art Neville – piano
*Aaron Neville – vocals
*Bill Dillon – guitar

Charts

Album

External links

* [http://trnsnd.net/acadienotes.html Liner notes]
* [http://www.neuhouse.com/acadie/lyrics/acadielyrics.html Lyrics]