Daniel Lanois

Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Four other albums received Grammy nominations. Lanois has released several solo albums. He wrote and performed the music for the 1996 film Sling Blade, and provided several vocal tracks for Red Dead Redemption 2.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are rock music, ambient music, art rock and acoustic music. Residence is recorded at Hamilton and Gatineau. Distinctions recorded are Człowiek ze Złotym Uchem, Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award and Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

• Name — Daniel Lanois • Landscape — yes • Birth Name — Daniel Roland Lanois • Born — 19 September 1951 • Birthplace — Hull, Quebec, Canada • Origin — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • Instrument — * Vocals • guitar • bass • pedal steel • omnichord • keyboards • Genre — * Rock • alternative rock • ambient • Occupation — * Record producer • musician • songwriter • Years Active — 1968–present • Label — * Opal • Warner Bros. • ANTI- • Red Floor • MapleMusic (Canada) • Associated Acts — * Bob Dylan • U2 • Peter Gabriel • Neil Young • Raffi • Malcolm Burn • Brian Eno • Aaron Neville • Daryl Johnson • Rocco DeLuca • Scott Weiland • Black Dub • Trixie Whitley • Spoons • Venetian Snares • The Parachute Club • Website — daniellanois.com

Lanois was born in 1951 in Hull, Quebec, to Guy and Jill Lanois. He began playing music at age nine with the penny whistle, and soon transitioned to pedal steel guitar. Lanois started his production career when he was 17, recording local artists including Simply Saucer with his brother Bob Lanois in a studio in the basement of their mother's home in Ancaster, Ontario. Later, Lanois started Grant Avenue Studio in an old house which he purchased in Hamilton, Ontario. He worked with a number of local bands, including Martha and the Muffins (for which his sister Jocelyne played bass), Ray Materick, Spoons, and the Canadian children's singer Raffi.

In 1981, Lanois played on and produced the album This Is the Ice Age by Martha and the Muffins. In 1985, he and two members of the band earned a CASBY award for their work on the band's (by then going by "M + M") 1984 album Mystery Walk. Lanois worked collaboratively with Brian Eno on some of Eno's own projects, one of which was the "Prophecy Theme" for David Lynch's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. Eno invited him to co-produce U2's album The Unforgettable Fire. Along with Eno, he went on to produce U2's The Joshua Tree, the 1987 Grammy Award for Album of the Year winner, and some of the band's other works including Achtung Baby and All That You Can't Leave Behind, both of which were nominated for the same award but did not win. Lanois once again collaborated with U2 and Brian Eno on the band's 2009 album, No Line on the Horizon. He was involved in the songwriting process as well as mixing and production. Lanois' early work with U2 led to him being hired to produce albums for other top-selling artists. He collaborated with Peter Gabriel on his album Birdy (1985), the soundtrack to Alan Parker's film of the same name, and then spent most of 1985 co-producing Gabriel's album So. The album was released in 1986 and became his best-selling release, earning multi-platinum sales and a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Lanois later co-produced Gabriel's follow-up, Us which was released in 1992 and also went platinum. Bono recommended Lanois to Bob Dylan in the late 1980s; in 1989, Lanois produced Dylan's Oh Mercy. Eight years later, Dylan and Lanois worked together on Time Out of Mind, which won another Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997. The Neve 8068 featured on the cover of Time Out of Mind has a home at the historic The Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Purchased by Teresa Knox, it was carefully restored to factory settings. In his autobiographical Chronicles, Vol. 1, Dylan describes in depth the contentious but rewarding working relationship he developed with Lanois. Wrecking Ball, his 1995 collaboration with Emmylou Harris, won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 1998, he produced and appeared on Willie Nelson's album Teatro. Lanois was working on Neil Young's record Le Noise in June 2010 when he was hospitalized after suffering multiple injuries in a motorcycle crash in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. He has since recovered. Lanois' production is recognizable and notable for its 'big' and 'live' drum sound, atmospheric guitars and ambient reverb. Rolling Stone called Lanois the "most important record producer to emerge in the Eighties."

On October 28, 2014, Lanois released an album titled Flesh and Machine on ANTI- Records, based on Brian Eno's ambient albums. The instrumental album consists primarily of original atmospheric and process-based sounds, blending pedal steel guitar and a variety of digital and analog sound processing devices. He was assisted by the drummer Brian Blade. In 2016, he released the album Goodbye to Language with Rocco Deluca. The collaborative album Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois was released on Venetian Snares' label Timesig in May 2018. Lanois also contributed to the composition and production of the soundtrack for the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2, released by Rockstar Games. He was given seven composition credits, including one for the song "Table Top".

• Title — Released — Label — Formats • Acadie — September 26, 1989 — Opal, Warner Bros. — LP, streaming, CD, cassette • For the Beauty of Wynona — March 23, 1993 — Warner Bros. — LP, streaming, CD, cassette • Shine — April 22, 2003 — Anti- — LP, streaming, CD • Belladonna — July 12, 2005 — Anti- — LP, streaming, CD • Here Is What Is — December 15, 2007 — Red Floor — Digital download, streaming, CD • Flesh and Machine — October 27, 2014 — Anti- — LP, digital download, streaming • Heavy Sun — March 19, 2021 — Maker Series — Digital download, streaming • Player, Piano — September 23, 2022 — BMG, ADA — LP, digital download, streaming, CD • Belladonna Nocturne — June 19, 2026 — Arts Music — LP, digital download, streaming, CD

• Title — Released — Label — Formats • Black Dub — September 2010 — Jive Records — LP, CD, streaming • Goodbye to Language, (with Rocco DeLuca) — September 9, 2016 — Anti- — LP, digital download, streaming, CD • Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois — May 4, 2018 — Timesig, Planet Mu — LP, digital download, streaming, CD

• Title — Released — Label — Formats • Harvest Festival 2011 — 2011 — Self-released — CD

• Title — Released — Label — Formats • Rockets — 2004 — Self-released — CD • My Music for Billy Bob — 2014 — Self-released — CD

• Title — Released — Label — Formats • Omni Series — 2008 — Red Floor — CD

• Trip: Soundtrack Collection (self-released, 1993) – compilation • Sweet Angel Mine (1996) • Lost in Mississippi (1996) • Sling Blade (1996) • All the Pretty Horses (unreleased, 2000) • Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) – game

• Year — Title — Description • 1993 — Rocky World — Documentary about Lanois' music and travels in the early 1990s. • 2007 — Here Is What Is — Documentary about the creation of the album Here Is What Is

Production credits • Year — Album — Artist — Notes • 1974 — Demo — Simply Saucer — not released commercially until 1989 album Cyborgs Revisited • 1976 — Blues and Sentimental — Jackie Washington — As "Dan Lanois" • 1977 — Hobo's Taunt — Willie P. Bennett — Engineered as "Dan Lanois," with Bob Lanois • 1977 — More Singable Songs — Raffi — Recording credit as "Dan Lanois" • 1978 — Can't Wait For Summer — Ron Neilson • 1978 — Choice Cuts — Crackers — As "Dan Lanois" • 1979 — Desperate Cosmetics — Scott Merritt • 1980 — The Millionaires (EP) — The Millionaires — As "Danny Lanois", included two members of Teenage Head • 1980 — Baby Beluga — Raffi — Mixer, engineer • 1981 — This is the Ice Age — Martha and the Muffins • 1981 — Dream Away — Bernie LaBarge • 1982 — Mama Quilla, KKK, Angry Young Woman — Mama Quilla II — 3-song 12" Album • 1982 — Dance After Curfew — Nash the Slash • 1982 — Ambient 4: On Land — Brian Eno — Engineered as "Danny Lanois" • 1983 — Danseparc — Martha and the Muffins • 1983 — Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks — Brian Eno • 1983 — Parachute Club — Parachute Club • 1984 — The Pearl — Harold Budd and Brian Eno • 1984 — Mystery Walk — M + M • 1984 — The Unforgettable Fire — U2 • 1984 — Secrets and Sins — Luba • 1985 — Thursday Afternoon — Brian Eno • 1985 — Hybrid — Michael Brook • 1985 — Birdy — Peter Gabriel • 1985 — Voices — Roger Eno • 1986 — Power Spot — Jon Hassell • 1986 — So — Peter Gabriel • 1987 — The Joshua Tree — U2 • 1987 — Robbie Robertson — Robbie Robertson • 1988 — Flash of the Spirit — Jon Hassell/Farafina • 1989 — Acadie — Daniel Lanois • 1989 — Oh Mercy — Bob Dylan • 1989 — Yellow Moon — Neville Brothers • 1990 — Home — Hothouse Flowers • 1991 — Achtung Baby — U2 • 1992 — Us — Peter Gabriel • 1992 — The Last of the Mohicans movie soundtrack • 1993 — For the Beauty of Wynona — Daniel Lanois • 1994 — Ron Sexsmith — Ron Sexsmith • 1995 — Wrecking Ball — Emmylou Harris • 1996 — Night to Night — Geoffrey Oryema • 1996 — Fever In Fever Out — Luscious Jackson • 1997 — Time Out of Mind — Bob Dylan • 1998 — Brian Blade Fellowship — Brian Blade • 1998 — 12 Bar Blues — Scott Weiland • 1998 — Teatro — Willie Nelson • 2000 — The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture movie soundtrack • 2000 — All That You Can't Leave Behind — U2 • 2003 — La Bella Vista — Harold Budd — secretly recorded in Lanois Los Angeles living room • 2004 — How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb — U2 — track "Love and Peace or Else" • 2006 — Dusk & Summer — Dashboard Confessional — produced with Don Gilmore • 2006 — loudQUIETloud movie soundtrack • 2007 — Back Where You Belong — Sinéad O'Connor • 2007 — Let It Go — Mother Superior • 2006 — Snake Road — Bob Lanois • 2009 — No Line on the Horizon — U2 — plus songwriting credits • 2009 — "Mind Games" & "Night Nurse" — Sinéad O'Connor • 2009 — Mercy — Rocco DeLuca and the Burden • 2010 — Flamingo — Brandon Flowers • 2010 — Le Noise — Neil Young • 2012 — Honest Mistake — Jim Wilson • 2012 — Battle Born — The Killers — co-writer on tracks "The Way It Was", "Heart of a Girl", and "Be Still" • 2014 — Rocco Deluca — Rocco Deluca • 2019 — Red Dead Redemption 2 video game soundtrack That's The Way It Is — various artists — produced at Lakeshore Records • 2025 — Pink Elephant — Arcade Fire

• Peter Gabriel, So (Charisma, 1986) • Robbie Robertson, Robbie Robertson (1987) • Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy (1989) • Peter Gabriel, Us (1992) • Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball (1995) • Ron Sexsmith, Ron Sexsmith (1995) • Bob Dylan, Time Out of Mind (1997) • Gordon Lightfoot, A Painter Passing Through (1998) • Natalie Merchant, Ophelia (1998) • Joe Henry, Fuse (1999) • Peter Gabriel, Up (2002) • Solomon Burke, Don't Give Up on Me (2002) • Emmylou Harris, Stumble into Grace (2003) • Brandon Flowers, Flamingo (2010) • Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance (2019) • Annie Barbazza, Vive (2020)

Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Recorded at birth as Daniel Roland Lanois. Recorded as having received Człowiek ze Złotym Uchem, Governor General's Performing Arts Award and Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award.