Album Info Hide Show Artist: Emmylou Harris Album: Wrecking Ball Released: USA, 2020 Tracklist: A1 Where Will I Be A2 Goodbye A3 All My Tears A4 Wrecking Ball A5 Goin” Back To Harlan A6 Deeper Well B1 Every Grain Of Sand B2 Sweet Old World B3 May This Be Love B4 Orphan Girl B5 Blackhawk B6 Waltz Across Texas Tonight Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show By 1995, Emmylou Harris had nothing left to prove as a singer, yet Wrecking Ball made it feel like she was starting over with a brand new language. Teaming with Daniel Lanois, she stepped out of the tidy lines of Nashville and into a humid, glowing dream. The record won the 1996 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album, but that label barely fits. It is folk tangled with atmosphere, country refracted through reverb and shadow, gospel whispers floating over electric haze. It still sounds strikingly modern. Lanois cut the album in New Orleans at his Kingsway studio, and you can hear the room. Guitars bloom and decay like church bells in fog. Percussion rolls in quietly and then rises like a tide. Emmylou stands right in the center, her voice steady and cutting through the mist. Larry Mullen Jr. of U2 drops into the mix on drums and percussion, giving some tracks a patient pulse that never gets in the way. Neil Young wrote the title song, and he turns up to sing harmony on it, the two of them braiding lines that feel both haunted and tender. The opener, Where Will I Be, is classic Lanois mood, but the melody belongs to Emmylou. She holds notes until they glow, then lets them go. Good luck not leaning forward. Steve Earles Goodbye follows, a heart-stopper that strips the song to its bones and finds a deeper ache in the space between phrases. All My Tears, written by Julie Miller, turns grief into a kind of soft-lit hymn. When the chorus rises, you get that shiver that only happens when the right singer meets the right song at the right time. Wrecking Ball, the song, feels like a shoreline walk at twilight. Youngs words and that weightless harmony play against a slow-motion band, and Emmylou sounds like she is tracing every ripple in the lyric. Goin Back to Harlan, from the McGarrigle circle, carries Appalachian memory into the wide-screen glow of Lanoiss guitars. Then there is Orphan Girl, written by Gillian Welch. Emmylou cut it before Welchs own debut arrived the next year, and her version put that song, and Welchs name, into countless ears. It is one of those covers that doubles as a passing of the torch. She draws unexpected light from Bob Dylans Every Grain of Sand, treating it like a private prayer whispered into a big room. Her take on Jimi Hendrixs May This Be Love is even more surprising. She doesnt reach for rock theatrics, she floats. The melody turns weightless, a tide pool of electric guitar and voice. Near the end, Waltz Across Texas Tonight, written with longtime collaborator Rodney Crowell, brings a bit of old-school Emmylou into the new world she is building. It is a reminder that reinvention does not have to abandon the past, it can carry it along. Fans who met her through Pieces of the Sky or Luxury Liner heard a different Emmylou here, and that was the point. Wrecking Ball nudged a generation toward what we now fold into Americana. It also set the path for Red Dirt Girl and Stumble into Grace, where she took even more ownership of her writing. Critics noticed right away, and the albums reputation has only grown. When Nonesuch rolled out the expanded reissue in 2014, with outtakes and a short film from the sessions, it felt like a small victory lap for a record that never stopped gathering believers. If you collect Emmylou Harris vinyl, this is the spine you reach for when a friend asks why her voice matters so much. The space and detail suit an LP, where the low end breathes and the guitars spill beyond the speakers. I found my clean copy in a Melbourne record store years ago and it has been a permanent fixture since. If you need a copy of Wrecking Ball vinyl and do not want to wait for a lucky bin dive, you can buy Emmylou Harris records online without much trouble now, especially with the reissue in circulation. It sits nicely next to other Emmylou Harris albums on vinyl, and it is the one I pull when I am showing off a system to a friend who swears they are not a country person. The room gets quiet by the second verse of Goodbye, every time. If you are browsing vinyl records Australia retailers or your local shop, make this the one you carry to the counter. The miracle of Wrecking Ball is simple. Lanois paints the air, the band moves like weather, and Emmylou keeps her feet on the ground. She sings with history in her pocket and possibility right in front of her. That combination still wrecks me. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review