Home → Emmylou Harris → Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball
Folk · 1995 · 12 tracks

Wrecking Ball

Emmylou Harris

A radical departure into atmospheric, reverb-soaked Americana. Emmylou's crystalline voice floats through a thick, swampy fog of electric guitars and ghostly percussion.

September 26, 1995 · Nonesuch

Find on Amazon

A hauntingly beautiful and spiritual journey through a landscape of shadows and silver light.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
Where Will I Be
4:15
02
Goodbye
4:53
03
All My Tears (Be Washed Away)
3:42
04
Wrecking Ball
4:49
05
Goin’ Back to Harlan
4:53
06
Deeper Well
4:17
07
Every Grain of Sand
3:56
08
Sweet Old World
5:06
09
May This Be Love
4:45
10
Orphan Girl
3:15
11
Blackhawk
4:28
12
Waltz Across Texas Tonight
4:46
Moments Worth Waiting For
The rhythmic, clattering percussion on Deeper Well that feels like a subterranean heartbeat.
Reviews
Pitchfork
Read review
AllMusic
Read review
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Wrecking Ball sound next to the rest of Emmylou Harris's catalogue?

Haunting+4.0σ

Haunting saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

If you loved this album for its Sound & genre

Blacklisted
Blacklisted
Neko Case
2002
Red Dirt Girl
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
2000
Soon the Birds
Soon the Birds
Oh Susanna
2011
West
West
Lucinda Williams
2007
Hanky Panky
Hanky Panky
The The
1994

Cassette uses generative AI to enrich its catalog. How we use AI →