Drums
Tony Hall, Brian Blade, Malcolm Burn, Larry Mullen, Jr.
Percussion
Daniel Lanois
Reviews
"...the biggest stretch of her career....the album plucks Harris from the safe ground of pristine country ballads and acoustic rave-ups and plops her squarely in the middle of idiosyncratic, New Age-y pop rock..." - Rating: A-, "...She steps off the edge into heavy rhythm tracks and instruments deployed as atmospheric noise while attention focuses on her voice - reaching low, straining high, letting elegance take care of itself...", Included on Stephen Holden's list of the Top 10 Albums of `95 - "...eerie, atmospheric collaboration....a queen of country steps down from her pedestal to sing...with a frayed urgency...", Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995 - "...a timely reminder of just how fabulous a singer Emmylou Harris is...", Ranked #12 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., 3.5 Stars - Good - "...Harris floats in some netherland amid country, rock and folk. Her latest album turns this stylistic ambiguity into a stunning virtue....a wrenching collection of songs that merges popular and historical styles like a 1990s rethink of the Band...", "It was, simply, a watershed. Emmylou Harris, with her song sense, acute rhythm guitar playing and set-on-stun gift as a vocal gut-leveler, was suddenly free to find the essence of her gift.", "...nothing in Harris' catalog prepares a listener for the leap she takes....she nudges her vocals gingerly into places as if completing a complex jigsaw puzzle....There are moments...that approximate...fleeting epiphany....WRECKING BALL isn't `country music,' not by a long shot..."
Vocals
Emmylou Harris
Distribution
Wea
Mixing
Malcolm Burn, Mark Howard
Number of Discs
1
Engineer
Malcolm Burn, Trina Shoemaker, Mark Howard, Sandy Jenkins
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Bass
Tony Hall, Daniel Lanois, Malcolm Burn
Guitar
Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris
Guest Artist
Neil Young, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Daniel Lanois, Larry Mullen, Jr., Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle
Number of Tracks
12
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States