Favorite music

It's Lanois's "The Beauty Of Wynona" that has left the greatest impression...I listen to it several times a year.

I went to high school with Chris Whitley in Vermont - what a great guitar player. Looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Thanks for the links, Albert

I'll second Lanois's own, "The Beauty of Wynona", and, "Acadie"

Shadorne,

I have both "Oh Mercy" and "Time Out Of Mind," hard for me to pick between the two, they are so different.

Yes, Lanois is Canadian, seems a good many of my favorite artists are from there.

Siddh,

It's Lanois's "The Beauty Of Wynona" that has left the greatest impression...I listen to it several times a year.

I agree, the LP is stunning. If you followed the link to "I Believe In You," about 38 seconds into the video the uncensored LP cover (non USA version) of "For The Beauty of Wynona" is framed and cleary visible on the wall behind Trixie.

That image is the work of Jan Saudek, the Czeck artist published by Aperture. I always wondered how Daniel choose that art for the cover. It's beautiful and disturbing at the same time.

My favorite track on that LP could easily be "The Collection of Marie Claire."

Jax2

I went to high school with Chris Whitley in Vermont - what a great guitar player. Looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Thanks for the links, Albert

I'll second Lanois's own, "The Beauty of Wynona", and, "Acadie"

Amazing you went to school with Chris Whitley, that made me look him up:

Whitley was born in Houston, Texas. His father was an art director and his mother was a sculptor. He spent years in Dallas, Texas and then Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont during his youth.

His parents "grew up on race radio in the South" and their musical tastes, which included Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, leading to Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, influenced their son. Chris learned to play guitar when he was fifteen.

I know Chris spent four years in Belgium from '83 on. Trixie (22 years old now) was born there.