''A-lan-nah'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer Alannah Myles. It was in released in 1995 on

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. Miles Copeland was credited as the executive producer.

Track listing

Personnel

* Alannah Myles – vocals * Phil Parlapiano – acoustic piano (1, 4),

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptua ...

(1, 6),

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(1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

(2, 4, 5, 7, 9-12),

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

(2),

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

(3),

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

(4, 8, 11), keyboards (5), acoustic guitar (8), pump organ (12) * Kurt Schefter – electric guitars (1-7, 11), backing vocals (1, 2, 9), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 7-10),

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...

(2) * David Wipper – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 3, 5-9, 11), mandolin (4, 8, 9),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

(9) *

Armand Sabal-Lecco Armand Sabal-Lecco is a Cameroonian bass guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist best known for playing bass-guitar on Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints, The Rhythm of the Saint's tour in 1989. Sabal-Lecco has worked with Paul Simon, Br ...

– bass (1-9, 11) * Jørn Andersen – drums, backing vocals (1, 2, 9),

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(4) * Ray Caldwell – bodhrán (5), tin whistle (5), low whistle (12), Uilleann pipes (12) * Hugh Marsh – violin (4, 5, 8) * George Koller – cello (8, 10) * Jackie Richardson – backing vocals (1, 6, 7) * Vivienne Williams – backing vocals (1, 7)

Production

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– executive producer * Pat Moran – producer, engineer, mixing * Ed Krautner – engineer * Peter Lee – engineer * Brad Nelson – engineer * L. Stu Young – engineer * Paul Offenbacher – engineer * Luis Quine – assistant engineer * Andora Studios (Los Angeles, California) – mixing location * Kit Mitchell – studio manager * Stephen Marcussen – mastering at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, California) * Peter Stoynich – production coordinator * Thomas Bricker – art direction * Amanda Kavanagh – design * Deborah Samuel – photography * Helen Chudoba – hair stylist * Chris Martin – stylist * Lisa Panagapka – wardrobe * Rena Andreoli – make-up * Feary Bina – color * Olivia – jewelry * Firstars, Inc. – management

References

1995 albums Alannah Myles albums Albums produced by Pat Moran Albums recorded at Metalworks Studios Atlantic Records albums {{1990s-pop-album-stub