Miss America

by Mary Margaret O'Hara

Miss America cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1988
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 45:03
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An eccentric, singular cult classic, 'Miss America' defies traditional singer-songwriter conventions through highly improvisational, jittery vocal performances. O'Hara bends jazz, country, and pop structures to her whim, delivering deeply anxious, bittersweet examinations of heartbreak over lush but unpredictable instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: breakup, folk, experimental, confessional, vocal, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. To Cry About (3:24)
  2. Year In Song (3:35)
  3. Body's In Trouble (5:01)
  4. Dear Darling (3:51)
  5. Anew Day (3:13)
  6. When You Know Why You're Happy (4:37)
  7. My Friends Have (3:12)
  8. Help Me Lift You Up (4:37)
  9. Keeping You In Mind (4:40)
  10. Not Be Alright (5:13)
  11. You Will Be Loved Again (3:34)

Credits

  • Mary Margaret O'Hara - primary artist, written-by, arranged by, producer, mixed by
  • Bill Kennedy - engineer [additional]
  • Garth Richardson - engineer [additional]
  • Mick Walsh - engineer [additional]
  • Randy Staub - engineer [additional]
  • Evan Caulford - engineer [assistant]
  • Kevin Markland - engineer [assistant]
  • Rhonda Bruce - engineer [assistant]
  • Richard Schiller - engineer [assistant]
  • Jody Colero - executive-producer
  • Denis Blackham - lacquer cut by
  • Kevin Killen - mixed by
  • Don Rooke - photography by, art direction, steel guitar [lap steel], guitar [rhythm], acoustic guitar, steel guitar [lap steel]
  • Heather Cameron - photography by, art direction
  • Michael Brook - producer, mixed by, guitar [infinite guitar]
  • Stephen Traub - recorded by [comfort sound]
  • Joe Primeau - recorded by [phase one studios]
  • Paul Gross - recorded by [phase one studios]
  • Paul Cobbold - recorded by [rockfield studios]
  • David Piltch - bass [elias 5-string], double bass [string bass]
  • Rusty McCarthy - guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Hendrik Riik - bass
  • Michael Sloski - drums
  • Bruce Moffet - drums
  • Bill Whelan - piano
  • Hugh Marsh - violin, keyboards [dx-7 log rhythm]
  • John Sheard - piano

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