What's Following Me?

What's Following Me Columbia Records (484233.2)
Studio album by Eleanor McEvoy
Released	1996
Genre	Rock / Folk Rock
Label	Mosco Disc
Producer	Eleanor McEvoy and Kevin Moloney
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Eleanor McEvoy chronology
Eleanor McEvoy (1996) What's Following Me? (1996) Snapshots (1999)

What's Following Me? is Eleanor McEvoy's second studio album and was released in 1996 for Columbia Records. The album is composed of thirteen songs composed by McEvoy. What's Following Me explores subjects that are universal and yet personal. Topics such as alcoholism and Catholicism are explored in depth, but McEvoy's feelings of betrayal are most central to the message of the album. The fourth track on the album, "Precious Little", achieved Top 10 chart success in the US.

Critical reception

Irish songstress Eleanor McEvoy just keeps getting better. Three years ago she surprised critics by outselling U2 in her homeland with the album, A Woman's Heart. Artistically, the new What's Following Me? is another step forward—a more seamless, more mature glimpse of romantic angst through the eyes of a survivor. McEvoy is an adroit melodist, but she's an even more adroit lyricist who has become a standout in the '90s singer-songwriter field. She can be touchingly vulnerable as in My Own Sweet Bed Tonight, where she sings, "Everyone has their battles and their pain hidden somewhere away." But she also rocks that pain away in The Weatherman and the erotic Biochemistry, where she urges, "Put your lips next to mine." But the show-stopper is Whisper a Prayer to the Moon, in which she tells a lover, "Please bear no grudge, just bare your soul." Good advice. Steve Morse

Track listing

1. "A Glass Unkissed"
2. "Where is the Healing"
3. "Don't Ask Me Why"
4. "Precious Little"
5. "Whisper a Prayer to the Moon"
6. "Trapped Inside"
7. "Sleepless"
8. "My Own Sweet Bed Tonight"
9. "Biochemistry"
10. "The Weatherman (Twelve Days)"
11. "The Fire Overhead"
12. "All That Surrounds Me"
13. "Famine"

Singles

• "Precious Little"
• "Whisper a Prayer to the Moon"

Music in Film and TV

Feature films

• McEvoy sang Bill Whelan's song "The Seabird" in Some Mother's Son starring Helen Mirren, director Terry George written by Jim Sheridan and Terry George.
• The song "Whisper a Prayer to the Moon" features in The Nephew starring Pierce Brosnan, Donal McCann, Sinéad Cusack, and Niall Tobin.

Television

• "A Glass Unkissed" appeared in television network ABC’s popular series Clueless.

External links

• Eleanor McEvoy Official Website
• Eleanor McEvoy on MySpace
• Moscodisc
• Columbia Records