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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
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Discogs stats for the Grapevine vinyl:
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Avg Rating: 4.8 / 5
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Last Sold: 30 Dec 14
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― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 April 2015 01:00 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
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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
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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.