Elemental (Loreena McKennitt album)

Elemental
Studio album by Loreena McKennitt
Released	1985
Recorded	July 1985
Genre	Folk
Length	36:27
Label	Quinlan Road
Loreena McKennitt chronology
Elemental (1985) To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

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 in a barn in southern Ontario and situated in a field of sunflowers.^[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

• "Stolen Child" is based on the William Butler Yeats poem "The Stolen Child".
• The main vocals of "Carrighfergus" are sung by Cedric Smith.
• "Lullaby" uses the words of a poem by William Blake. The song was written for the 1983 Stratford Festival of Canada production of Blake by Elliot Hayes and performed by Douglas Campbell.

Notes

1. Allmusic review
2. Quinlan Road Ltd. (2006) [1985], Elemental Liner Notes (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2006, retrieved 2008-09-27