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NOLA

NOLA cover

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)

(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, .

The title refers to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Track listing

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

Line-up

Band members

Phil Anselmo - Vocals
Pepper Keenan - Guitar
Kirk Windstein - Guitar, Bass Guitar(studio only)
Todd Strange - Bass Guitar(live only)
Jimmy Bower - Drums

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"

Artwork

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

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

• • [ e] Down Nola
Phil Anselmo – Pepper Keenan – Kirk Windstein – Rex Brown – Jimmy Bower
Todd Strange
Discography
Albums: NOLA – –
Singles: "Stone the Crow" – "Temptation's Wings" – "Bury Me in Smoke" – "Beautifully Depressed" – "Ghosts Along the Mississippi"
See Also
"Pantera" – "Superjoint Ritual" – "Corrosion of Conformity" – "Crowbar" – "Eyehategod"

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It usually does not contain live recordings or remixes, and if it does, those tracks do not make up a majority of the album and are often called "bonus tracks".
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Released 1995
Recorded 1994 - 1995
Genre Heavy metal
Length 4:24
Label Elektra
Producer(s) Down
Matt Thomas

Down singles chronology

Stone the Crow
(1995) "Temptation's Wings"
(1995)
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Released 1995
Recorded 1994 - 1995
Genre Heavy metal
Length 4:42
Label Elektra
Producer(s) Down
Matt Thomas

Down singles chronology

"Stone the Crow"
(1995) Temptation's Wings
(1995)

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Released 1995
Recorded 1994 - 1995
Genre Heavy metal
Doom metal
Sludge metal
Length 7:04
Label Elektra
Producer(s) Down
Matt Thomas

Down singles chronology

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Todd Strange, (born 1966), is a former bassist who played on the first Down album NOLA and with Crowbar. Forming Crowbar with Kirk Windstein (Down), Matt Thomas and Craig Nunenmacher (Black Label Society) they released the best selling albums of the bands discography.
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