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Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris

Wrecking Ball

Release Date: 10/2/1995

Recording Date: 9/1995

Tracks: 12

Length: 00:53:05 Hrs

Label: Elektra

Type: CD,CS

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Progressive Country, Contemporary Country, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alt-Country, Alternative/Indie Rock

Album Tracks (12)

Song Title
Length
1.
Where Will I Be
04:15
2.
Goodbye
04:53
3.
All My Tears (Be Washed Away)
03:42
4.
Wrecking Ball
04:49
5.
Going Back to Harlan
04:51
6.
Deeper Well
04:19
7.
Every Grain of Sand
03:56
8.
Sweet Old World
05:06
9.
May This Be Love
04:45
10.
Orphan Girl
03:15
11.
Blackhawk
04:28
12.
Waltz Across Texas Tonight
04:46

What the Critics Say

Wrecking Ball is a leftfield masterpiece, the most wide-ranging, innovative, and daring record in a career built on such notions. Rich in atmosphere and haunting in its dark complexity, much of the due credit belongs to producer Daniel Lanois; best known for his work with pop superstars like U2 and Peter Gabriel, on Wrecking BallLanois taps into the very essence of what makes Harris tick -- the gossamer vocals, the flawless phrasing -- while also opening up innumerable new avenues for her talents to explore. The songs shimmer and swirl, given life through Lanois' trademark ringing guitar textures and the almost primal drumming of U2's Larry Mullen, Jr. The fixed point remains Harris' voice, which leaps into each and every one of these diverse compositions -- culled from the pens of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Earle, and others -- with utter fearlessness, as if this were the album she'd been waiting her entire life to make. Maybe it is. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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