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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Wrecking
Ball Demos & Outtakes
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Emmylou
Harris
Wrecking
Ball Demos & Outtakes [no label, 1CD]
Outtakes
from the 1995 album Wrecking Ball recorded at Woodland Studio, East Nashville,
January 1995. Ex SBD stereo. Supposedly from a source close to producer
Daniel Lanois.
The album that both
reinvented Emmylou, and invented the alt.country genre, Wrecking Ball
occupies as unique a position in the modern rock canon as any album that
the '90s threw up. Chronologically falling in between Nevermind and OK
Computer (the two albums generally credited with zapping the decade's
zeitgeist), but stylistically stepping way beyond even those albums' genre-busting
credentials, Wrecking Ball is an album that still holds its secrets close
today; and it's remarkable to discover that its earliest stages were just
as spellbinding as the finished, fully produced effort.
Few of the performances
are actually demos; rather, they constitute rough mixes of songs recorded
during sessions at Nashville Woodland studios, before the production moved
onto Kingsway Studios. Three songs not found on the original album emerge
- Never Be Gold, the most traditional sounding number on the set, with
moments that sound oddly like Coat Of Many Colours; the spookily Spartan
Still Water, which producer Daniel Lanois himself recorded on Acadie;
and Richard Thompson's How Will I Ever Be Simple Again, presented with
a martial backing that puts one in mind of Eliza Carthy's more eclectic
moments. Why it never made the finished LP is a question we might never
answer. (Absent from the disc are the album's Where Will I Be, Blackhawk
and Going Back To Harlan.)
Elsewhere, although
the basic tracks are the same as the familiar LP versions, the presentation
is vastly different, lacking backing vocals and an arsenal of overdubs.
Harris's vocals are
as raw as you've ever heard them, and all the more beautiful for it, aching
with a vulnerability that is rarely given such free rein on her regular
albums. Equally, stripping away the multiple layers that Lanois brought
to the final album brings a whole new emotional element to the songs,
a naked beauty that Harris herself had not really exercised since the
underproduced days of Elite Hotel/Pieces Of The Sky. Compare the two versions
of Wrecking Ball itself, and you decide which will haunt you longest.
- Dave Thompson
Note: These soundboard
tracks are excellent.
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
mono MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this
recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
All
My Tears (5.2MB) |
| Track
02 |
Goodbye
(6.7MB)
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| Track
03 |
Every
Grain Of Sand
(5.5MB)
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| Track
04 |
Orphan
Girl (4.5MB) |
| Track
05 |
May
This Be Love
(7.1MB)
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| Track
06 |
Waltz
Across Texas Tonight
(6.3MB)
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| Track
07 |
Never
Be Gold (4.5MB) |
| Track
08 |
Sweet
Old World
(6.7MB)
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| Track
09 |
Deeper
Well (5.7MB) |
| Track
10 |
Still
Water (5.9MB) |
| Track
11 |
How
Will I Ever Be Simple Again
(4.1MB)
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| Track
12 |
Wrecking
Ball (6.6MB) |
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February
6, 2008
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