Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
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Artist: Emmylou HarrisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-09-26
Music Label: Asylum Records
Soundtracks:
- Where Will I Be
- Goodbye
- All My Tears (Be Washed Away)
- Wrecking Ball
- Goin' Back To Harlan
- Deeper Well
- Every Grain Of Sand
- Sweet Old World
- May This Be Love
- Orphan Girl
- Blackhawk
- Waltz Across Texas Tonight
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Free Music Review: Like Spun Gold
Hit: 5 Stars
It's impossible to be serious about music and not realize the great contribution Emmylou Harris has given us over the years. Although she has always been a left fielder in country music pushing the envelope when some of her contemporaries we're trying on their disco slippers to make a quick buck, Emmylou new this didn't suit her. She sought out songs that move her. With "Wrecking Ball", Emmylou took a wrong turn that really WORKED and hit it out of the ballpark. The marriage of her spiritual yet sensual voice with virtuoso production by whiz kid Daniel Lanois created a new benchmark for what could be created. This album was a very brave departure for her with a beautiful merging of old and new. Lanois' spatial, textured landscape added rather than detracting from Emmylou's sliver tounged vocals. The songs have a layered feel to them that reveal more with continual listening. At one time or another every song on this album has been my favorite. I'm surprised by how many times I've listened to this album since I bought my first copy in '95 (about 300 times I'd estimate). I can't think of any another album that means more to me. Take an unexpected turn and give yourself over to this album and I think you'll be pleasantly suprprised.
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Emmylou Harris's formula has been to match a crack crew of left-of-center country players with an assortment of tasteful tunes and head into the studio with a nonintrusive producer. Now and then (most notably the 1980 bluegrass collection Roses in the Snow), she tampers with her basic blueprint and comes up with something exceptional. Wrecking Ball is one of those. Daniel Lanois's radiant production no longer seems as fresh as it did on albums by U2, Peter Gabriel, and Bob Dylan, but here its hum enfolds Harris like an electric blanket. Lanois's usual recruits, including U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr., and New Orleans regulars Malcolm Burn, Brian Blade, and Daryl Johnson, lay down a solid base for Harris's weary vocals and Lanois's buzzing guitar. At its core, Wrecking Ball seems almost too finely calculated. Hot producer plus sought-after songwriters plus venerated performer frequently totals to deadly bore. Here, however, all that calculation adds up to something. --Steven StolderCountry Music CDs
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