EMMYLOU HARRIS/D.Lanois: WRECKING BALL. Rare orig UK PROMO LP. GRAPEVINE (1995)

	£		132
	$		175

EMMYLOU HARRIS - 'WRECKING BALL'. (PROMO).
(UK) GRAPEVINE LABEL. GRALP 102. (1995).

Very nice first UK press copy with vinyl in EX+/Near Mint condition.

First, original UK pressing on the GRAPEVINE label.
Sleeve grades full EX+/NEAR MINT condition. EX+/NEAR MINT vinyl!

Sleeve has promotional sticker on bottom right corner of the back of the sleeve.

Very scarce vinyl copy of this groundbreaking LP from Emmylou Harris (and Daniel Lanois). It marked a turning point for Emmylou's usual style and the tracks are incredible. She does a brilliant rendition of Jimi Hendrix' "May This Be Love." Many other standout tracks include: "Goodbye", Wrecking Ball" and Waltz Across Texas Tonight." Daniel Lanois creates some incredible sound-scapes which give the album a haunting quality especially when you add that killer voice of Emmylou's into the mix.

The vinyl plays through beautifully and grades NEAR MINT!. (A bit of unobtrusive light crackle in quieter passages). Includes the original BLACK CARD inner sleeve and standard CD INLAY INSERT with track/recording info supplied with this LP version.

Full matrix/stampers:
Side 1: GRALP 102 A-1-1-1
Side 2: GRALP 102 B-1-1-


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Review taken from http://www.allmusic.com/album/wrecking-ball-r224099 by Jason Ankeny.

Wrecking Ball is a leftfield masterpiece, the most wide-ranging, innovative, and daring record in a career built on such notions. Rich in atmosphere and haunting in its dark complexity, much of the due credit belongs to producer Daniel Lanois; best known for his work with pop superstars like U2 and Peter Gabriel, on Wrecking Ball Lanois taps into the very essence of what makes Harris tick -- the gossamer vocals, the flawless phrasing -- while also opening up innumerable new avenues for her talents to explore. The songs shimmer and swirl, given life through Lanois' trademark ringing guitar textures and the almost primal drumming of U2's Larry Mullen, Jr. The fixed point remains Harris' voice, which leaps into each and every one of these diverse compositions -- culled from the pens of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Earle, and others -- with utter fearlessness, as if this were the album she'd been waiting her entire life to make. Maybe it is.