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Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball Audio CD

A fair review of the Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Emmylou Harris reviews here, or go back to the Emmylou Harris tabs.

Emmylou Harris Band: Emmylou Harris
Title: Wrecking Ball
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Release Date: 1995-09-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Where Will I Be 2: Goodbye 3: All My Tears (Be Washed Away) 4: Wrecking Ball 5: Going Back to Harlan 6: Deeper Well 7: Every Grain of Sand 8: Sweet Old World 9: May This Be Love 10: Orphan Girl 11: Blackhawk 12: Waltz Across Texas Tonight

big fan for years
The covers are typical Emmy Lou: recordings of wonderful songs from master songwriters that may have been overlooked. This is a somewhat strange recording. However, her voice is really stretched and scratchy. My 14 year old son commented: "Who is that old lady singing?" Also, the orchestration is too busy and lush at times. While I understand that all artists must grow creatively, the sound is distinctively different from the country "roots" sound that she seemed to have championed over the years. Contrast the production of many of these cuts from that of her cover of Leonard Cohen's "Prayer for a Runaway Horse" a few years back. I found a lot of this cd lacking. .


Haunting, Heart-Wrenching, & Hypnotic
I was just listening to it as I drove back to work and was so captivated by it (as I always have been) that I decided I had to write at least a quick review of it. I hadn't listened to this CD for quite a while. These songs are stunningly beautiful with a very haunting sound that is consistent throughout. Daniel Lanois produced this CD and the haunting sound is definitely his work. I was listening to the first song and thinking "My God, this is a beautiful song. I had forgotten how good this album was. " Then the second song started and I had the same reaction. Then the THIRD song started and. . . well you can guess the rest.

I suspect that due to the "Lanois sound" this is not a typical Emmylou Harris album and could possibly throw off some of her hardcore fans. But, for anyone else I recommend this CD as highly as I can - 5 stars!.


Sweet Old World - one of the great moments
Then, a spare moment of time to REALLY listen, and wow. I'd had Wrecking Ball stuck away in a back corner because on a first listen it wasn't the Emmylou Harris I knew.

There's a slice of pure perfection it this album

You travel a long way to hear anything more sensitively performed, better produced, or perfect for the the artist than Wrecking Ball's Sweet Old World. At its basics its a regretful song about the sweet things some person who has suicided has left behind in this Sweet Old World.

Then you're listening again to the words, and you realize the almost woozy, sliding ethereal sound that's been created to wrap around the song is so acutely suggestive of some soul slipping gently away from life. Huge marks for Emmylou herself, Daniel Lanois who produced it, and Neil Young who's background vocal is right on it

It's a wonderful moment in music.


How did Danny let this one out of the studio?
I have nine EmmyLou Harris CD's, 1973-2003. I don't know how Danny let this one out of the studio in 1995. The early work really sparkles. Through Brand New Dance, 1990, she was spot on. On this CD, she loses her lyrics, she does not hit her high and low notes. It almost sounds as if she was incapacitated, by who knows what. The ensemble for this album was mind boggling, a lot of people who I really like. In Spyboy, 1998, she seems back to herself, and I know Red Dirt Girl, 2000, by heart. But this one is a real shame. And, for this she got a Grammy. It must have been one of those "we owe you" gifts.


A very important career changing album
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