Emmylou Harris’s groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball will be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy gala at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on May 16.
Wrecking Ball, originally released on Elektra Records and later reissued on Nonesuch, was produced by Daniel Lanois and won the 1996 GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Uncut called it “the most daring, inventive album of Harris’s career,” while Rolling Stone said, “The album features unvarnished, otherworldly renditions of songs written by Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Earle, and other lesser-known artists,” and the Los Angeles Times said, “The pace is deliberate, unhurried, meditative, the atmosphere rich, dark, and ghostly.” You can hear it and get it on vinyl and CD here. // Continue to the full article