For the Beauty of Wynona

Shine Daniel Lanois, while a prolific producer, is is a frustratingly sporadic recording artist. He's also a surprising one, given that the albums he has produced (think of The Joshua Tree, All That You Can't Leave Behind, So, Oh Mercy) are characterized by surging, luxuriant audioscap...	Acadie	Belladonna For years, Daniel Lanois has been producing lush soundscapes for his own projects as well as those he's produced. From U2's The Unforgettable Fire to Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball, Lanois's distinct floating-in-the-clouds sound is instantly recognizable to even the most casual l...	Here Is What Is Here is What Is, the remarkable sixth solo album from Daniel Lanois, strikes a chord for independence as the first major release on his own Red Floor Records. An acclaimed singer/songwriter/producer known for producing some of the greatest albums of the last two decades (U2, Bob ...	Rockets
Acadie After producing groundbreaking albums for, and often with, Peter Gabriel, U2, Robbie Robertson, and the Neville Brothers, Daniel Lanois's self-produced debut album proved at once familiar in its thick, swampy sonics and startling in its pared-down, intimate scale. Lanois's song c...	Sling Blade: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture This excellent Daniel Lanois score casually mixes and matches genres, sliding from back-porch picking ("Jimmy Was") to cranked fusion guitar ("Orange Kay"). Also present are a crew of intriguing debutantes, including singer Bambi Lee Savage and a Robbie Robertson-like singer name...	Wrecking Ball Emmylou Harris's formula has been to match a crack crew of left-of-center country players with an assortment of tasteful tunes and head into the studio with a nonintrusive producer. Now and then (most notably the 1980 bluegrass collection Roses in the Snow), she tampers with her ...	Here Is What Is Here Is What Is is a sonic journey that captures the art of making a record byone of the most distinctive and celebrated producers of our time. Directed by Adam Volick, Adam Samuels and Lanois, the film debuted at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and offers viewers a rare chance to...	Modern Guilt Beck's new album Modern Guilt, produced with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, will be released July 8, 2008. The new album contains 10 new songs, and with the exception of last year's Grammy-nominated, digital-only single "Timebomb", Modern Guilt is the first new material Beck has w...

awesome
This is one of my favorite top 15 albums of all time. I like it even better than I like Acadie. Daniel Lanois does not get the credit he deserves for both his producing and for his own music.

Daniel Lanois Truely Amazing!
I listen to this album all the time even though I've had it for years. Daniel Lanois is one of my favourite artists. We saw him in Ottawa when he toured at the Bluesfest! Most excellent!

Don't Burn It, Buy It...Lanois Deserves It
Give Daniel Lanois his due...this guy has been making others sound great then he humbly applies his talents to his own music and look what happens. This album is truly a work of art. It has something for everyone and everything for some. DL uses innovation likes its found at the corner store and yet he is able to strike again and again at our inner chord that makes music so precious. This will be in my ready to listen selection for as long as I have ears. Interpret it yourself, Wynona is meant to be discovered...over and over again.

My Desert Island Treasure!
I hope my cd player is solar powered so I can listen to my favorite disc for eternity on my desert island paradise! Daniel has written & produced the soundtrack for my SOUL! I love every nuance of his production on both his & all the artists he has worked with. I feel he has taken Dylan & P. Gabriel to euphoric heights. I hear something fresh upon every spin. It is artists like Daniel that keep me afloat in this "Rocky World". I have purchased at least 15 copies of this masterpiece over the years and blessed many with it's grace & awesome beauty.

Atmospheric beauty
Although Beauty Of Wynona is an excellent album judged on its own merits, inevitably it will be compared with the singular masterpiece Acadie. Lacking that one's wealth of enthralling songs, it nevertheless impresses with its own gems like Still Learning How To Crawl, Sleeping In The Devil's Bed and The Unbreakable Chain. The folky song with snatches of French here is The Collection of Marie Claire while Unbreakable Chain, the moving story of a mother and son's reunion, has that same French feel. Another touching song is Lotta Love with its chiming guitars, a tale of addiction and redemption. Indian has Native American drumming and reminds me slightly of Joni Mitchell's Lakota on Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm. The production is magical, as to be expected from Lanois: atmospheric instrumentation - including evocative synths - backing his soulful voice. This is a very good album offering much in the way of stirring, memorable music and Lanois remains true to his vision.