Elemental (Loreena McKennitt album)

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 a barn in southern Ontario, situated in a field of sunflowers.[1] It sold 67,000 pieces worldwide.[3]

Elemental
Studio album by
Loreena McKennitt
Released1985
RecordedJuly 1985
StudioElora Sound[1]
GenreFolk
Length36:27
LabelQuinlan Road
Loreena McKennitt chronology
Elemental
(1985)		 To Drive the Cold Winter Away
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

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

Notes
  1. Quinlan Road Ltd. (2006) [1985], Elemental Liner Notes (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2006, retrieved 2008-09-27
  2. Allmusic review
  3. "McKennnit to unleash 'Book of Secrets'". Billboard. 23 August 1997. Retrieved 12 April 2018.



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