Daniel Lanois Shine

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Following Mickey Acorn's endorsement of Daniel Lanois' album Shine on Acts of Volition, I went out and purchased it from Amazon. Nice suggestion Mickey. I just finished listening to it all the way through for the first time and it's fantastic. The opening song with Emmylou Harris and the title track are especially good.

It's particularly clear when listening to Lanois' solo albums how much his style has affected U2's recordings. The rich background textures are so classic U2 that some parts of the album sound familiar already with the first listen.

Daniel Lanois, Shine, 2003

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Alan -

No go listen to early Raffi again. His first gig. Its there.

Daniel Burka -

Amazing. As Alan points out, Daniel Lanois mixed and engineered Raffi's "Baby Beluga" album in 1980 and plays steel guitar plus recorded, mixed, and engineered other Raffi albums. See this site for more details.

Alan -

When Lanois was interviewed by Definately Not the Opera last year, I think it was a Raffi recording that Brian Eno heard that got him interested in Lanois. I seem to recall that the Raffi work was done in a basement. Lanois's sister was in Martha and the Muffins for a time and Eno and Lanois record them around '83.

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