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Elemental (Loreena McKennitt album)

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Released
  
1985

Length
  
36:27

Release date
  
1985

Genre
  
Folk music

Recorded
  
July 1985

Artist
  
Loreena McKennitt

Label
  
Quinlan Road

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Studio
  
'A barn southern Ontario'

Elemental (1985)
  
To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987)

Similar
  
Loreena McKennitt albums, Folk music albums

Elemental is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt and the vehicle with which she launched the Quinlan Road label. The album was recorded in one week in July 1985 and released later in the year. The studio was in a barn in southern Ontario and situated in a field of sunflowers.

Contents

Loreena mckennitt blacksmith


Track listing

  1. "Blacksmith" (traditional, McKennitt) – 3:20
  2. "She Moved Through the Fair" (traditional, Padraic Colum, McKennitt) – 4:05
  3. "Stolen Child" (McKennitt, W. B. Yeats) – 5:05
  4. "The Lark in the Clear Air" (traditional, McKennitt) – 2:06
  5. "Carrighfergus" (traditional, McKennitt) – 3:24
  6. "Kellswater" (traditional, McKennitt) – 5:19
  7. "Banks of Claudy" (traditional, McKennitt) – 5:37
  8. "Come by the Hills" (traditional, McKennitt) – 3:05
  9. "Lullaby" (William Blake, McKennitt) – 4:26

Song information

  • "Stolen Child" is based on the William Butler Yeats poem "The Stolen Child".
  • The main vocals of "Carrighfergus" are sung by Cedric Smith.
  • "Lullaby" uses the words of a poem by William Blake. The song was written for the 1983 Stratford Festival of Canada production of Blake by Elliott Hayes and performed by Douglas Campbell.

    • Songs

    1Blacksmith3:21
    2She Moved Through the Fair4:05
    3Stolen Child5:08

    References

    Elemental (Loreena McKennitt album) Wikipedia
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