Yellow Moon (Neville Brothers album) explained

Yellow Moon
Type:Album
Artist:the Neville Brothers
Cover:Yellow Moon (The Neville Brothers album) cover art.jpg
Released:March 1989
Recorded:New Orleans
Genre:New Orleans R&B, soul, funk
Length:52:40
Label:A&M[1]
Producer:Daniel Lanois
Prev Title:Uptown
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Brother's Keeper
Next Year:1990

Yellow Moon is an album by the Neville Brothers, released in 1989.[2] [3] The track "Healing Chant" won best pop instrumental performance at the 32nd (1989) Grammy Awards.[4]

The album peaked at No. 66 on the Billboard 200.[5]

Production

Yellow Moon was produced by Daniel Lanois.[2] It was recorded in New Orleans, in a vacated apartment.

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." 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."[6]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Spins. SPIN. May 4, 1989. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Neville Brothers | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Web site: 'Yellow Moon' Casts the Glow of Success on Neville Brothers. January 6, 1990. Los Angeles Times.
  4. Web site: 32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989) . 2018. Recording Academy. Grammy.com. 2018-04-28.
  5. Book: Whitburn . Joel . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001 . 2001 . Record Research . 627.
  6. News: Milward . John . THE LISTENING ROOM . USA Today . 4 Apr 1989 . 5D.

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