I didn't like "Teatro." It felt waaaaaay too much like Willie going for the same thing, but WIllie is so much his own thing he doesn't need that. I didn't see him play Farm Aid with Lanois and two Cuban drummers, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
that Farm Aid set was dope
was a weird day, with Mellencamp & the rapper during Jack and Diane, and Phish and Neil Young, and Woody Harrelson in a suit made out of weed, and Brian Wilson
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
lol that all sounds pretty magical
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link
it was great! plus Hootie.
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
when will lanois produce a hootie album... achtung hootie.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
I forgot all about Hootie! I remember thinking, hey, I'm going to keep an open mind, but Hootie was soooooo boring.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
is there any licensing fuckery that would prevent Wrecking Ball from getting reissued? every copy listed on popsike has gone for over $150, usually WAY over.
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
I don't understand, you can get it used for a penny on Amazon.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 29 August 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
Vinyl.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
gonna assume that not many copies of this were printed on vinyl -- 1995 was probably a low point in major labels even putting albums out at all on vinyl.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Getting back to Teatro for a sec, I could never get into it despite how badly I wanted to. Was actually hoping for Wrecking Ball II, but what I found was big on atmosphere and low on actual songs. The song selection on Wrecking Ball, on the other hand, is flawless.
― vmajestic, Friday, 13 September 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
OTM.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 September 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
I honestly don't really remember Teatro, I set it aside before anything sank in and never went back to it. But yeah, the songs on Wrecking Ball would have made for a great Emmylou album no matter how she recorded it. The production made it into something else again, but the foundation is solid to start with.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 13 September 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Getting back to /Teatro/ for a sec, I could never get into it despite how badly I wanted to. Was actually hoping for /Wrecking Ball II/, but what I found was big on atmosphere and low on actual songs. The song selection on /Wrecking Ball/, on the other hand, is flawless.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 15 September 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link
I picked up the Modern Classics reissue of Teatro today and it is quite beautiful; I've had it on tape since around the time this thread introduced me to Wrecking Ball but it's never sounded this rich before.
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
jesus goddamn christ
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
Discogs stats for the Grapevine vinyl:
Have: 38 Want: 263 Avg Rating: 4.8 / 5 Ratings: 10 Last Sold: 30 Dec 14 Lowest: $92.82 Median: $167.49 Highest: $216.10
Have: 38 Want: 263 Avg Rating: 4.8 / 5 Ratings: 10
Last Sold: 30 Dec 14 Lowest: $92.82 Median: $167.49 Highest: $216.10
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 April 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
that's absurd. surely this has been reissued?
― akm, Monday, 20 April 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
I think that original UK vinyl release is the only time this album's ever been on vinyl, so it's understandably rare. Still, those prices are bonkers.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 April 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
She played "Pilgrim" on Colbert and it reminded me how classic she is
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 24 July 2017 07:32 (six years ago) link
Hearing the demos for this for the first time ever - even though its one of my all-time favorite albums, and am astonished. As good as the finished album, if not better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4shDJvXWXd4
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
nice. this whole album has climbed up into my top 50 all time ranks pretty rapidly
― Spottie, Saturday, 18 November 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
That's from the expanded reissue, right? The bonus disc material is great, indeed, and quite revealing.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 18 November 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
Finally picked up the reissue on vinyl - can’t think what took me so long to buy it for $60 when I’d have snapped up the no doubt inferior sounding original for twice that if I ever spotted it in the wild - & immersed myself in it last night. Christ, i’d forgotten how fucking deep this record is. Wept like a baby through half of it: how that steel guitar sings like a church organ while EH is transformed by the magic of folk music: “and if you were Willie Moore and I was Barbara Allen - or Fair Ellender, all sad at the cabin door, weepin’ and a-pinin’ for love” - “Sweet Old World” - “Blackhawk” - & that numinous take on “Every Grain of Sand”, where she turns Dylan’s bitterness into something humble and human - honestly one of the best records ever made, I think. The only tune that left me cold at all - strangely, because I recall it fondly - was “Orphan Girl”, which came across as kind of rote or predetermined or something - never transcended its setting, & I don’t feel like Emmylou brought as much emotion to her reading of it as Gillian Welch later did to hers. A super-important track though, historically, because Welch/Rawlings probably wouldn’t have had anything like the career they did if that song hadn’t been on this record.
I like the first two sides of outtakes too, mostly - the unproduced take of “Where Will I Be” is a highlight, and it was great to hear her do “Still Water”, though I don’t think she quite caught the magic that Lanois’ own version did. “Stranger Song” was good. The Richard Thompson number was pretty unremarkable.
Now I have to track down a copy of that documentary - you mean I’m gonna have to buy this album AGAIN? - it was released with the CD version of the rerelease.
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 31 December 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link