Acoustic Kitty (album)
Appearance
Acoustic Kitty | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 15, 2002 | |||
Genre | folk rock | |||
Length | 45:40 | |||
Label | Nettwerk | |||
Producer | Michael Phillip Wojewoda | |||
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Acoustic Kitty is the debut solo album by Canadian singer-songwriter John Mann, the lead singer of Spirit of the West.[1] It was released in 2002 on Nettwerk.[2]
Mann's supporting band for the album consisted of Doug Elliott, Ford Pier and Michael Phillip Wojewoda. Wojewoda also produced the album.[3]
The album's title track is inspired by the CIA's Acoustic Kitty espionage project of the 1960s, in which surveillance microphones were implanted into a cat.
Mann garnered two Western Canadian Music Award nominations for the album, in the categories of Outstanding Songwriter and Entertainer of the Year.[4] At the Juno Awards of 2003, the album garnered a nomination for Album Art of the Year, for designer John Rummen.
Track listing
- "Somebody's Miracle"
- "A Lot to Learn"
- "Acoustic Kitty"
- "What Language"
- "Ill Placed Monuments"
- "Red Deer?"
- "American TV"
- "As Berlin Builds"
- "Come Along With Me Tonight"
- "Love's a Sobbing Idiot"
- "Our Sick Love"
- "Winterton"
References
- ^ "The two loves of John Mann". The Province, June 20, 2002.
- ^ "Release me". Edmonton Journal, June 15, 2002.
- ^ "John Mann and the spirit of solo ; XTC-ish quality infuses Acoustic Kitty debut album". Toronto Star, June 20, 2002.
- ^ "Artists vie for music awards". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, August 21, 2003.