Yellow Moon

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Yellow Moon
Yellow Moon (The Neville Brothers album) cover art.jpg
Studio album by
The Neville Brothers
ReleasedMarch 1989
RecordedNew Orleans
GenreNew Orleans R&B, soul, funk
Length52:40
LabelA&M[1]
ProducerDaniel Lanois
The Neville Brothers chronology
Uptown
(1987) 		Yellow Moon
(1989) 		Brother's Keeper
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[2]
Robert ChristgauA[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 stars[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide3.5/5 stars[5]
Orlando Sentinel4/5 stars[6]
Ottawa Citizen5/5 stars[7]
Q5/5 stars[8]
Rolling Stone4/5 stars[9]
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 stars[10]

Yellow Moon is an album by the Neville Brothers, released in 1989.[11][12] The track "Healing Chant" won best pop instrumental performance at the 32nd (1989) Grammy Awards.[13]

The album peaked at No. 66 on the Billboard 200.[14]

Production[]

Yellow Moon was produced by Daniel Lanois.[11] It was recorded in New Orleans, in a vacated apartment.[7]

Critical reception[]

Robert Christgau wrote: "Whether isolating rhythm-makers, adding electronic atmosphere, or recontextualizing 'natural'-seeming instrumental effects ... Lanois isn't afraid to go for drama, and while drama does have a way of palling eventually, the songs are worth the risk."[3] Spin thought that "instead of running from the bayou backbeat ... the Nevilles let the funky rhythms flow where they may."[1] USA Today opined that "cynics will say that Lanois has thrown out the baby with the bathwater, but that ignores the fact that 'My Blood' and 'Wild Injun' rock with subtlety, and that Yellow Moon is an adventurous stretch for a band that can boogie in its sleep."[15]

Track listing[]

  1. "My Blood" (Daryl Johnson, Cyril Neville, Willie Green, Charles Moore) – 4:11
  2. "Yellow Moon" (Aaron Neville) – 4:04
  3. "Fire and Brimstone" (Link Wray) – 3:57
  4. "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) – 3:43
  5. "Sister Rosa" (Daryl Johnson, Cyril Neville, Charles Moore) – 3:29
  6. "With God on Our Side" (Bob Dylan) – 6:37
  7. "Wake Up" (Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 3:21
  8. "Voodoo" (Aaron Neville, Daryl Johnson, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 4:26
  9. "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" (Bob Dylan) – 5:45
  10. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (A. P. Carter) – 5:16
  11. "Healing Chant" (Aaron Neville, Tony Hall, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 4:34
  12. "Wild Injuns" (Aaron Neville, Tony Hall, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, Willie Green) – 3:17

Personnel[]

  • Aaron Neville – vocals, keyboards, percussion
  • Art Neville – vocals, keyboards
  • Charles Neville – saxophones, percussion, backing vocals
  • Cyril Neville – vocals, hand drums, percussion
  • Brian Stoltz – guitar
  • Tony Hall – bass, percussion, backing vocals
  • Willie Green – drums
  • Brian Eno – keyboards, sound effects, vocals on "A Change Is Gonna Come"
  • Daniel Lanois – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Malcolm Burn – keyboards, guitar
  • The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – horns
  • Eric Kolb – keyboard programming
  • Kenyatta Simon and Kufaru Mouton – percussion on "My Blood"
  • Aashid Himmons and Terry Manual – keyboards on "Sister Rosa"

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Spins". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. May 4, 1989 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ AllMusic review
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Robert Christgau: Album: The Neville Brothers: Yellow Moon". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 6: MUZE. p. 159.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 806.
  6. ^ Fields, Curt (4 June 1989). "NEVILLE BROTHERS". Orlando Sentinel. Calendar. p. 6.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Erskine, Evelyn (14 Apr 1989). "Neville Brothers shake off dust in spiritual revival". Ottawa Citizen. p. B6.
  8. ^ Gill, Andy. "Heavenly" [Yellow Moon review]. Q. May 1989.
  9. ^ "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on October 2, 2007.
  10. ^ (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 578.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b "Neville Brothers | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  12. ^ "'Yellow Moon' Casts the Glow of Success on Neville Brothers". Los Angeles Times. January 6, 1990.
  13. ^ "32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)". Grammy.com. Recording Academy. 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  14. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. p. 627.
  15. ^ Milward, John (4 Apr 1989). "THE LISTENING ROOM". USA Today. p. 5D.



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