Heartbeats Accelerating

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Heartbeat Accelerating
Heartbeat Accelerating cover
Studio album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Released 1990
Recorded 1989-1990
Genre Folk
Length 42:33
Label Private Music/Atlantic Records
Producer Pierre Marchand
Professional reviews
Kate and Anna McGarrigle chronology
Love Over and Over
(1983)
Heartbeats Accelerating
(1990)
Matapédia
(1996)

Heartbeats Accelerating is a 1990 album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

It was their first album in seven years, after Love Over and Over in 1983, and received favourable reviews from many music critics, who hailed it as an excellent comeback album.

Bill Dillon, Pierre Marchand, Joel Zifkin and Kate's son Rufus Wainwright appear as guest musicians.

[edit] Track listing

Songwriting credits for each track are listed below.

  1. "Heartbeats Accelerating" – 3:38 - Anna
  2. "I Eat Dinner (When the Hunger's Gone)" – 4:54 - Kate
  3. "Rainbow Ride" – 4:38 - Anna/Philippe Tatartcheff
  4. "Mother Mother" – 4:20 - Kate
  5. "Love Is" – 4:40 - Kate/Anna/Jane McGarrigle
  6. "DJ Serenade" – 4:10 - Tatartcheff
  7. "I'm Losing You" – 3:49 - Kate
  8. "Hit and Run Love" – 4:08 - Anna
  9. "Leave Me Be" – 5:17 - Kate/Anna
  10. "St. James Hospital (Cowboys Lament)" – 2:59 - Doc Watson

[edit] Personnel

  • Anna McGarrigle - Vocals, Keyboards, Drum (5).
  • Kate McGarrigle - Vocals, Accordion, Piano, Guitar, Banjo, Keyboards.
  • Yves Gigon - Drums (1,3,9), Percussion (3,5).
  • Daniel Gigon - Bass (1,3).
  • Michael Breen - Guitar (1,2,7).
  • Joel Zifkin - Violin (1,7,9).
  • Pierre Marchand - Keyboards, Accordion, Vocals (7).
  • Bill Dillon - Guitars (2,3,4,5,6,9).
  • Michel Dupirre - Percussion (3,9).
  • Jason Lang - Guitars (4,8).
  • Marc Langis - Bass (3,6).
  • Norman Barsalo - Bass (5).
  • Richard Mischook - Guitar (6,8).
  • Rufus Wainwright - Vocals (7).
  • Pat Donaldson - Bass and Guitar (9).