Just been listening to Emmylou Harris' album Wrecking Ball (1995). The title track is a Neil Young song which I have loved since I first heard it on his album Freedom and Harris sings it beautifully. I was delighted to discover a real treasure. It's produced by Daniel Lanois, with Larry Mullen Jnr (U2) on drums and other great artists contributing including Young. One stand out track is Bob Dylan's wonderfully confessional Every Grain of Sand (from Shot of Love). However, the song that really made me sit up and listen is All My Tears written by Julie Miller:
When I go don't cry for me
In my fathers arms I'll be
The wounds this world left on my soul
Will all be healed and I'll be whole
Sun and moon will be replaced
With the light of Jesus' face
And I will not be ashamed
For my savior knows my name
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter where I lay
All my tears be washed away
Gold and silver blind the eye
Temporary riches lie
Come and eat from heaven's store
Come and drink and thirst no more
So weep not for me my friend
When my time below does end
For my life belongs to him
Who will raise the dead again
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter where I lay
All my tears be washed away.
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