Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball": C/D?

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.

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.

jesus goddamn christ

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

that's absurd. surely this has been reissued?

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.

She played "Pilgrim" on Colbert and it reminded me how classic she is

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

nice. this whole album has climbed up into my top 50 all time ranks pretty rapidly

That's from the expanded reissue, right? The bonus disc material is great, indeed, and quite revealing.

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.