Emmylou Harris
rri...@ibm.net
>BTW...Emmylou has a new release on the 26th of this month. Can't wait!
We got an advanced pressing for airplay. It is rather different from her
recent acoustic stuff - it's produced by Daniel Lanois. I played her
version of Lucinda Williams's "Sweet Old World" on Saturday, but I
haven't heard the rest of it yet.
Jimmie Wilson, WRUW, Cleveland
Brian Rost
> In <1995091900...@beauty.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rett...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert M Ettinger) writes:
> >BTW...Emmylou has a new release on the 26th of this month. Can't wait!
>
> We got an advanced pressing for airplay. It is rather different from her
> recent acoustic stuff - it's produced by Daniel Lanois.
I'll second that...I heard one track on the radio last weekend and was
thinking, "Gee that sounds kind of like Emmylou but it can't be
because the music is all digitally processed new-agey rock band sh*t".
And then the announcer said it was the new Emmylou album...
If you can imagine Emmylous sitting in on a Shawn Colvin or Suzanne
Vega record, you might get an idea. Very un-country sounding. I have
no idea if the whole album is like that, but knowing Lanois I would
suspect so.
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Brian Rost
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Elizabeth Blake
>version of Lucinda Williams's "Sweet Old World" on Saturday, but I
>haven't heard the rest of it yet.
What type of radio station is WRUW? WFUV, a college station here in NYC,
has been playing tracks from the album for the past two weeks. I've also
heard it on the World Cafe radio show out of the University of Penn station,
as well as on a weekly free-form show on another NYC station. It seems to
be going over well, but I can't see it getting much airplay on strictly
country radio.
Liz
Elizabeth Blake
>Finally Emmylou Harris' fabled box set is being released next month.
>_Profiles_ is a 3cd set. I'm assuming it will be the previously released vols.
>1 and 2 w/now a third disk.
>
>Does anyone know what the track listing might be...or if there are unreleased
I'll believe that the boxed set is out when I have a copy in my hands! This
box has been delayed time and again for the past couple of years. I'm
hoping that it's not just a repackaging of the two "Profile" albums plus
some extra stuff. I read somewhere that the Richard Thompson song "DImming
Of The Day" would be included in the box, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Liz
rri...@ibm.net
>What type of radio station is WRUW? WFUV, a college station here in NYC....
WRUW is a college station here in Cleveland, affiliated with Case Western
Reserve University. I've been playing folk music there every Saturday at
lunchtime for about 15 years now. Tune in if you're ever in the area.
You can see our home page at
http://www.cwru.edu/CWRU/Org/wruw/wruw.html
However, like many college stations, WRUW covers a broad musical spectrum.
Don't expect to find a lot of folk music listed.
I'm quite familiar with WFUV. That's my first choice when I'm in the NY area.
Jimmie Wilson, WRUW, Cleveland
Jimmy Dunne
negative press this string has been giving in regard to its quality. I
believe Daniel Lanios has captured the mysterious soul of Emmy Lou and
recorded a side of her that few (if any) producers have the talent or
inclination to capture. I must admit, I am not a fan of country music, but
I do have 8 Emmy Lou CDs in my collection because I love her voice and
selection of material. I think this may be noe of the finest recordings
she has ever put out.
JudiLem
deeper into one's (psyche)(soul)(heart). But it isn't country, it isn't
folk (though it is roots music); it is Emmy music--unique, complex,
mysterious. It is incredible what she can do with her voice--it isn't
"beautiful" on this album, but very powerful in all the different ways she
uses it. She is just a genius in her choice of material--on all her
albums, IMO. You might not like this if you are more into lyrics than
melody, musical texture, harmony, etc., but if musical richness is what
turns you on, this album does it.
Judi
Peter A. Cady
: I just heard the new "Wrecking Ball" CD and I must take umberance with the
What's "Umberance?"
Peter.
Steve Goldfield
Peter A. Cady <pete...@maple.sover.net> wrote:
#>Jimmy Dunne (ji...@cais.com) wrote:
#>: I just heard the new "Wrecking Ball" CD and I must take umberance with the
#>: negative press this string has been giving in regard to its quality. I
#>: believe Daniel Lanios has captured the mysterious soul of Emmy Lou and
#>: recorded a side of her that few (if any) producers have the talent or
#>: inclination to capture. I must admit, I am not a fan of country music, but
#>: I do have 8 Emmy Lou CDs in my collection because I love her voice and
#>: selection of material. I think this may be noe of the finest recordings
#>: she has ever put out.
#>
#>What's "Umberance?"
#>
#>Peter.
I wouldn't take any umbrage or umberance and I've only heard one
cut from the new CD ("Orphan Girl," which I wanted to hear
because I like the song as sung by Gillian Welch, author,
and Molly O'Brien and thought it would suit Emmy Lou's voice)
so I played it on a radio show I was doing about a week ago.
It was absolutely terrible, tremendously overproduced, the worst
thing I'd ever heard from Emmy Lou, even worse than her first LP.
The production was so busy that it drowned out her voice.
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University of California at Berkeley Richmond Field Station
William Wayne Barker
<snip>ragging on "Orphan Girl deleted<snip>
Well I think that this is the best cut on the album, a really interesting
evolution of a sort of old timey traditional sounding gospel piece with an
updated, almost alternative sound. And the fact that this is done with
only a mandolin, a dulcimer, and a guitar is pretty incredible. What's
wrong with a recording artist stretching things a bit? I admit this album
is very different,and I'll wait until I listen to it a few more times
before I decide, but right now "Orphan Girl" is my favorite cut and a
worthy addition to Emmylou's catalog. B-
ghost
->Peter A. Cady <pete...@maple.sover.net> wrote:
->#>Jimmy Dunne (ji...@cais.com) wrote:
->#>: I just heard the new "Wrecking Ball" CD and I must take umberance with the
->#>: negative press this string has been giving in regard to its quality. I
->#>: believe Daniel Lanios has captured the mysterious soul of Emmy Lou and
->#>: recorded a side of her that few (if any) producers have the talent or
->#>: inclination to capture. I must admit, I am not a fan of country music, but
->#>: I do have 8 Emmy Lou CDs in my collection because I love her voice and
->#>: selection of material. I think this may be noe of the finest recordings
->#>: she has ever put out.
->#>
->#>What's "Umberance?"
->#>
->#>Peter.
->I wouldn't take any umbrage or umberance and I've only heard one
->cut from the new CD ("Orphan Girl," which I wanted to hear
->because I like the song as sung by Gillian Welch, author,
->and Molly O'Brien and thought it would suit Emmy Lou's voice)
->so I played it on a radio show I was doing about a week ago.
->It was absolutely terrible, tremendously overproduced, the worst
->thing I'd ever heard from Emmy Lou, even worse than her first LP.
->The production was so busy that it drowned out her voice.
I haven't heard Harris's "Orphan Girl" yet; what I have heard is an
old-time standard (someone *please* list album cuts & I may be able to tell
you which it was) which was sung substantially lower than Harris's patented
familiar range, had minimal production on it (maybe some kind of brooding
hum far in the background? I remember it as almost acapella) & was
flat-out gorgeous.
I'd still like to hear a few other cuts before I shell out my cash, but...
Bob Norton
>
>What's "Umberance?"
>
I think that would be the degree of reddish-browness of an object <g>.
Simon John Shurville
> It was absolutely terrible, tremendously overproduced, the worst
> thing I'd ever heard from Emmy Lou, even worse than her first LP.
> The production was so busy that it drowned out her voice.
Quite, I should have know that it would be bad when the young man in
the record shop told me how great it was. Your money would be much
better spent on a copy of Bluebird...and if one likes Daniel Lanoise
then he has plenty of his own albums that sound just as bad as this.
Bob Norton
there is far too much of Daniel Lanois' influence. His production stinks up
several of the cuts, notably the ones he wrote (of which there are too many).
Anna McGarrigle's "Goin' Back To Harlan", Dylan's "Every Grain Of Sand", and
Jimi Hendrix' "May This Be Love" are the album's high points for me.
Emmylou's range on this recording seems to be a little under an octave. A lot
of the time she's just projecting voiceless air. Her vocal cords are clearly in
need of a two or three year rest and perhaps a competent surgeon.
I can't believe they dropped a Richard Thompson number just to stroke Lanois'
ego a little more by including another of his.
Still, It's definitely worth the price.
Thomas G. McWilliams
: but she's got a whole lot on the other side of the scale to outweigh
: the stuff that just doesn't suit my particular tastes.
I understand that her weight is now under control thanks to Jenny Craig.
Kate Derr
Dave Douglass
Is this who I think it might be? If it is, thanks for all the great
singing for the last 20 years and who in the world ever thought you were
overweight? Mercy.
Dave