November 16, 2010, saw the US release ( November 12 for Europe ) of McKennitt's latest studio album, The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Loreena McKennitt's album An Ancient Muse features a track titled " Caravanserai ".

McKennitt's single " The Mummers ' Dance " received airplay in North American markets during the spring of 1997, and was used as the theme song for the short-lived TV series Legacy.

" A bonus copy of the DVD was included with the 2004 remastered versions of McKennitt's CDs.

McKennitt is compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations, using literary works as sources of lyrics and springboards for interpretation such as " The Lady of Shalott " by Lord Tennyson, " Prospero's Speech " ( the final soliloquy in William Shakespeare's The Tempest ), " Snow " by Archibald Lampman, " Dark Night of the Soul " by St. John of the Cross, Dante's Inferno, William Blake's " Lullaby ", Yeats ' " The Stolen Child ", " The English Ladye and the Knight " by Sir Walter Scott and " The Highwayman " by Alfred Noyes.

Quinlan Road started out at McKennitt's home where she sold recordings by mail order.

The inspiration for famous Celtic singer and harpist Loreena McKennitt's million-selling CD The Mask and the Mirror came in part from a visit to Galicia and in particular Santiago de Compostela.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

* ABCs ( song ), the first official single by rapper K ' naan on his album Troubadour

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

Grant has won six Grammy Awards, 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

he should recall that Dylan called his first cover album Self Portrait.

In 1987, Andersson released his first solo album Klinga Mina Klockor (" Chime, My Bells ").

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

In 1971, his early works were compiled under his first full length album Dünden Bugüne, today commonly referred as Dağlar Dağlar.

In this latest series, Swamp Thing is reverted to his plant-based Earth Elemental status after the first storyline, and he attempts to live an " eventless " life in the Louisiana swamps.

In the book Fire Rose, the first of the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, the fires are said to be the result of combat between two Firemaster mages, one in Peshtigo and one in the South Side of Chicago.

In 1983, The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror was the first place to feature a lightning quasielemental, although the description says they inhabit the Positive Energy Plane and the Elemental Plane of Air, indicating that Gygax didn't expect anyone to know what the Quasielemental Plane of Lightning was.

All of the Elemental Planes are also visited ( in the first game, only the Elemental Plane of Water was featured ).

Unlike the first layer ( Ysgard ), the earth here is covered in lava and flames as hot as the Elemental Plane of Fire.

When Theena the Elf Queen passes down the ability to become all of the Elemental Warriors and the Wotnot Book to her younger daughter Kameo, Kalus, the first daughter, grows jealous.

Robilar was also the first to enter Gygax's Temple of Elemental Evil, and trashed it from top to bottom, even freeing the demoness Zuggtmoy from her prison at the centre of the Temple.

The Elemental Gelade manga was first serialized in the Japanese shōnen / seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Blade on February 28, 2002.

The anime adaptation of Elemental Gelade was first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo.

During the first year, Jaden plays an Elemental HERO deck composed of the eponymous series of monsters, Spell and Trap Cards and that support them, as well as his " partner " Winged Kuriboh which he received from Yugi.

The first CTI projects, Elemental 7 and European Rendezvous, were released through Cabaret Voltaire's DoubleVision label.

( Milon in the original SNES release and PlayStation re-release ) is the Elemental Lord of Earth who first meets Cecil's group on Mt.

In 2001 upon request from the double bass and electronic composer Kasper T. Toeplitz, she makes her first instrumental work Elemental II, a work taken up again with the laptop improvisation group The Lappetites she joined.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.