Acadie (album)

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Acadie
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Original cover art by Lynn Goldsmith
Studio album by
Daniel Lanois
ReleasedSeptember 26, 1989
June 14, 2005
Recorded1989
Studio
Genre Rock
Length41:03
Label Opal/Warner Bros.
Producer Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois chronology
Acadie
(1989)		 For the Beauty of Wynona
(1993)
Alternative cover
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2005 reissue cover art
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Boston Phoenix Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
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Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 7/10 [7]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Village Voice B− [10]

Acadie is the debut studio album by record producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois, originally released in 1989 by Opal Records and Warner Bros. Records. It was largely written and recorded in the city of New Orleans. Lanois sings on it in both French and English, sometimes on the same track. It was reissued in 2005 with new cover art (but otherwise identical to the original) and then issued again in 2021 as Acadie (Gold Top Edition) and only the 2021 edition is available for streaming. Acadie was named the 20th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Daniel Lanois unless otherwise noted.

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

With some more songs on the 2005 reissue;

  1. "The Maker" (Early bass and lyrics)
  2. "The Maker" (Calypso demo)
  3. "Still Water" (From Eno's House)
  4. "Jolie Louise" (Before Dublin)
  5. "Early Dourado Sketch"
  6. "The Source of Fisherman's Daughter" (Instrumental version)

"Jolie Louise", "Still Water" and "The Maker" were released as singles.

Personnel

Additional personnel
Technical

Charts

Album

YearChartPosition
1990 Billboard 200 [11] 166

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