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| | Wrecking Ball | | | Music Artist : | | Emmylou Harris | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Asylum Records | | Release Date : | | 1995-09-26 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. 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
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 big fan for years
Submitted on: 2009-11-08 |
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| This is a somewhat strange recording. The covers are typical Emmy Lou: recordings of wonderful songs from master songwriters that may have been overlooked. 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. |
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 Haunting, Heart-Wrenching, & Hypnotic
Submitted on: 2009-10-23 |
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I hadn't listened to this CD for quite a while. 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. 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! |
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Sweet Old World - one of the great moments
Submitted on: 2009-10-09 |
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I'd had Wrecking Ball stuck away in a back corner because on a first listen it wasn't the Emmylou Harris I knew. Then, a spare moment of time to REALLY listen, and wow.
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.. |
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 How did Danny let this one out of the studio?
Submitted on: 2009-08-21 |
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| I don't know how Danny let this one out of the studio in 1995. I have nine EmmyLou Harris CD's, 1973-2003. 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. |
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A very important career changing album
Submitted on: 2009-03-30 |
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