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EMMYLOU HARRIS
Los Angeles 2014 [no label, 2CD]
Live at The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA; April 3, 2014. Very good audience recording.
Emmylou Harris’s “Wrecking Ball” was reissued on April 8, 2014 (first came out in 1995) in a deluxe three-disc set; the first is a remaster of the original album, the second a disc with bonus material including unreleased songs and alternate takes, and the third is a DVD containing a making-of documentary. Beyond that, Harris and Daniel Lanois are doing a limited tour in support of the reissue, a rarity in the world of vintage recordings.
“This album’s obviously very special to me,” said Harris, 67, whose tour in support of the reissue stops April 3 at the Wiltern Theatre. She’ll perform with the record’s producer and collaborator, Daniel Lanois.
“Daniel and I have done shows together in the last few years - mainly benefits - and we just love playing those songs,” she said from her home in Nashville. “It shows our affection for this record that we’ll go to the trouble of doing the reissue and touring.”
“We didn’t tour it a lot when it first came out in ‘95, so a lot of people didn’t know about it then,” she said. “But one person would tell another person, and it’s nice when it happens that way on its own.”
In a sense, “Wrecking Ball” provided an ambitious and richly textured template for the coalescing Americana music movement before it took on that name. The music was rooted in country, folk, gospel and blues, but with Lanois’ sonic wizardry in the mix, it also had an experimental edge that took it well beyond musical archaeology.
- By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2014
Thanks to Charlie and Jacque Miller for recording the show (Charlie also did the mastering).
Thanks also to Jacktomthumb for the artwork and for sharing the tracks at Dime.
Recording:
DIY Omni Mics > Edirol R-09 (24bit/48k)
Transfer:
SanDisk SDHC Card (8GB) > Samplitude Professional v11.2.1 > FLAC/16 (2 Discs Audio / 1 Disc FLAC)
Disc change is seamless.
Recorded in the Loge Row FF Seat 120.
Thanks to John Almirall for his help.
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Disc 1
Track 101. Where Will I Be 5:37 (9.4MB)
Track 102. Goodbye 5:06 (8.6MB)
Track 103. All My Tears (Be Washed Away) 5:47 (9.7MB)
Track 104. Wrecking Ball 5:03 (8.5MB)
Track 105. Going Back To Harlan 5:11 (8.7MB)
Track 106. Deeper Well 5:58 (10.0MB)
Track 107. Every Grain Of Sand 5:08 (8.6MB)
Track 108. Sweet Old World 4:13 (7.1MB)
Track 109. May This Be Love 5:31 (9.3MB)
Track 110. Orphan Girl 3:31 (5.9MB)
Track 111. Blackhawk 5:22 (9.0MB)
Track 112. Waltz Across Texas Tonight 4:42 (7.9MB)
Track 113. The Maker 10:07 (17.0MB)
72 mins
Disc 2 (Encore)
Track 201. Boulder To Birmingham 4:50 (8.1MB)
Track 202. Pancho And Lefty 5:27 (9.1MB)
Track 203. Calling My Children Back Home 5:04 (8.5MB)
Track 204. Still Water (First Time Played) 6:48 (11.4MB)
Track 205. My Songbird 3:57 (6.6MB)
27 mins
Lineup:
Emmylou Harris - vocals, acoustic guitar
Daniel Lanois - electric guitar, pedal steel, electric mandoline, backing vocals
Jim Wilson - bass, backing vocals
Steven Nistor - drums
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