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UPDATE - Bring On Your "Wrecking Ball": Emmylou Harris Classic Revisited By Nonesuch Label As 2-CD/1-DVD Set

April 4, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Emmylou - Wrecking Ball DeluxeBefore Bruce Springsteen unleashed his Wrecking Ball or Miley Cyrus her “Wrecking Ball,” Emmylou Harris gave her 1995 studio album, produced by Daniel Lanois (U2, Bob Dylan) that title after a Neil Young composition.  Harris’ Wrecking Ball embraced a more explicitly cutting-edge “rock” sound than many of her past traditional country efforts, and earned the artist a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.  On April 8, Nonesuch Records (sister label to Elektra/Asylum, the original home of Wrecking Ball) will reissue this seminal alt-country effort in a deluxe 2-CD/1-DVD edition including an entire disc of previously unissued music and a new documentary film about the making of the album.  We first filled you in back on February 7 about this release, but we now have additional information including pre-order links!

Harris and Lanois selected a hip array of songs for her eighteenth studio release.   Wrecking Ball included renditions of Young’s title track and compositions by Steve Earle (“Goodbye”), Anna McGarrigle (“Goin’ Back to Harlan”), Bob Dylan (“Every Grain of Sand”), Lucinda Williams (“Sweet Old World”), Gillian Welch (“Orphan Girl”), Julie Miller (“All My Tears”) and even Jimi Hendrix (“May This Be Love”).  Songs by Lanois (“Where Will I Be,” “Blackhawk”) and Harris herself (“Deeper Well” with Lanois and David Olney, and “Waltz Across Texas Tonight” with Rodney Crowell) rounded out the eclectic set.  Tackling these diverse, accomplished songwriters was natural for Harris, who had previously recorded the songs of Lennon and McCartney, Pomus and Shuman, Chuck Berry, Paul Simon and her musical soulmate Gram Parsons alongside those by Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton and The Louvin Brothers.

Steve Earle, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams and Kate and Anna McGarrigle all performed on Wrecking Ball, along with a core band of Harris, Lanois, U2’s Larry Mullen, Jr., Malcolm Burn, Tony Hall and Daryl Johnson.   Following its release in September 1995, the album peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 94, and received critical acclaim from outlets including Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Uncut and The Los Angeles Times.  Today, almost twenty years later, Harris continues to meld both the traditional and alt-country worlds to great effect, most recently on Old Yellow Moon, her Grammy-winning collaboration with Crowell.

What extras will you find on the upcoming reissue?  Hit the jump!

Nonesuch’s remastered and expanded Wrecking Ball adds a second disc of audio with 12 outtakes and alternates, including songs by Richard Thompson (“How Will I Ever Be Simple Again”), Leonard Cohen (“The Stranger Song”), Harris (“Gold”) and Lanois (“Still Water”).  The package’s third disc, a DVD, includes director Robert Lanois' documentary film Building the Wrecking Ball.  The film features interviews and in-studio footage of Harris and Lanois as well as special guests Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Neil Young, Steve Earle, Brian Blade, and others.  To celebrate this reissue, Harris and Lanois are also embarking on an eight-city tour in April which will include stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston and Toronto among other locations.

Wrecking Ball is currently available for pre-order from Amazon U.S. and U.K.!  This 3-CD deluxe set is due on April 8.

Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball (Elektra/Asylum CD 61854, 1995 – reissued Nonesuch, 2014 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

CD 1:  Wrecking Ball

  1. Where Will I Be
  2. Goodbye
  3. All My Tears
  4. Wrecking Ball
  5. Goin’ 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

CD 2: Deeper Well: The Wrecking Ball Outtakes

  1. Still Water (Daniel Lanois)
  2. Where Will I Be
  3. All My Tears
  4. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again (Richard Thompson)
  5. Deeper Well
  6. The Stranger Song (Leonard Cohen)
  7. Sweet Old World
  8. Gold (Emmylou Harris)
  9. Blackhawk
  10. May This Be Love
  11. Goin’ Back to Harlan
  12. Where Will I Be

DVD: Building the Wrecking Ball: A Documentary About the Making of Wrecking Ball

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Earl Cambron says

    February 7, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    Hard to believe the original CD is OOP......

    Reply
    • Kevin says

      February 7, 2014 at 12:39 pm

      But very common. (and very very good)

      Reply
    • noyoucmon says

      February 7, 2014 at 4:37 pm

      I'm not sure how OOP it is. New CD copies are in stock at Amazon, with no indicator that the supply is limited.

      Reply
  2. Kevin says

    February 7, 2014 at 12:41 pm

    You could make a little boxset of a batch of Lanois-produced albums that evoke this sound (Dylan's Oh Mercy' Willie Nelson's Lanois album; others)

    Reply
  3. Zubb says

    February 7, 2014 at 8:08 pm

    ...or Grace Slick welcomed us to her Wrecking Ball.

    Reply
  4. Zubb says

    February 7, 2014 at 8:09 pm

    This Emmylou album is one of her best. So glad to see it get this reissue treatment.

    Reply
  5. Charles Klaus says

    February 7, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    I'm a huge fan of her friends Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton, so Emmylou is a great artist that's just perfect for me to delve deeper into. I've read some of her best reviews ever regarding this album, so this would be a great place to start. I have a couple of EH "best of's," but like Linda and Dolly, it's just not enough!

    Reply
  6. Ryan Nims says

    February 10, 2014 at 3:11 am

    An Emmylou cover of Stranger Song? I'll go for that.

    Reply
  7. Jeremy Shatan says

    February 10, 2014 at 9:50 am

    I've heard the extra cuts and most of them are well worth having. To me, this is an essential record in any form, however!

    Reply
  8. Kevin says

    April 7, 2014 at 8:48 am

    Do the bonus tracks have that Lanois "swamp-swirl" sound, or possible a more natural live sound?

    Reply
  9. Andrea says

    April 8, 2014 at 8:31 am

    🙂 and so Kevin, it seems you're not much af a Lanois-sound fan... I undertand you, I feel exactly the same way 🙂
    Like all those sounds who tried so hard to be "modern" or "updated" - now it's just dated

    Reply

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