NOLA (album)

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NOLA
Studio album by Down
Released	September 19, 1995
Recorded	1994 - 1995
Genre	Heavy metal Doom metal Sludge metal
Length	56:33
Label	Elektra
Producer	Down Matt Thomas
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Down chronology
NOLA (1995) Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow (2002)

NOLA is Down's first album. It was released on September 19, 1995. The songs on the album were written mainly by Phil Anselmo and Pepper Keenan between 1991 and 1995. NOLA recently went gold with 500,000 copies sold in America.

The band went on hiatus as of 1996 as all members continued their main bands until they reunited in 2001 for their second album, Down II.

The title is the abbreviation for New Orleans (N.O.), Louisiana (La.).

The band has announced that it plans to re-release NOLA, the only Down album with original bassist Todd Strange, in 2008, remastered and re-recorded with current bassist Rex Brown.^[1]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Line-up 2.1 Band members 2.2 Guest musicians 3 Artwork 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Anselmo/Keenan unless stated.

1. "Temptation's Wings" – 4:24
2. "Lifer" – 4:36
3. "Pillars of Eternity" (Anselmo) – 3:57
4. "Rehab" (Anselmo/Keenan/Windstein) – 4:03
5. "Hail the Leaf" (Anselmo) – 3:28
6. "Underneath Everything" – 4:46
7. "Eyes of the South" – 5:13
8. "Jail" (Anselmo/Keenan/Strange/Windstein) – 5:17
9. "Losing All" – 4:21
10. "Stone the Crow" – 4:42
11. "Pray for the Locust" (Anselmo) – 1:07
12. "Swan Song" (Anselmo/Bower/Keenan) – 3:35
13. "Bury Me in Smoke" – 7:04

[edit] Line-up

[edit] Band members

• Phil Anselmo - Vocals
• Pepper Keenan - Guitar
• Kirk Windstein - Guitar
• Todd Strange - Bass Guitar
• Rex Brown - Bass Guitar (2008 remastered edition)
• Jimmy Bower - Drums

[edit] Guest musicians

Big Ross Karpelman - Keyboards on "Jail"

• Lil' Daddy and Sid Montz - Percussion on "Jail"
• Lil' Daddy - Water pipe solo on "Hail the Leaf"

[edit] Artwork

The booklet art is by Jim DeBarros and David Manteau and makes extensive use of vintage photographs by Clarence John Laughlin.

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1995	The Billboard 200	57

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1995	"Stone the Crow"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	40

v • d • e Down Phil Anselmo · Pepper Keenan · Kirk Windstein · Jimmy Bower · Rex Brown Todd Strange Studio albums NOLA · Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow · Down III: Over the Under Singles "Lifer" · "Stone the Crow" · "Temptation's Wings" · "Bury Me in Smoke" · "Beautifully Depressed" · "Ghosts Along the Mississippi" · "On March the Saints" · "I Scream" · "Mourn" Related bands Corrosion of Conformity · Crowbar · Eyehategod · Pantera · Superjoint Ritual