See what other customers who bought this album have purchased . Click on any format below to hear a sound sample. Help with Sound Samples. Despite the rural imagery of the title and Harris' history as a champion of traditional country music and its interesting offshoots, this is a project with uptown, artistic aims. Eager to move in a different direction artistically after Wrecking Ball , her 1995 album with producer Daniel Lanois , Harris took up her pen and looked inward.
Stars fall on Alabama.
Lost out on a hill, her baby needs a shepherd, an angel, a pilot, a mother. If, by writing, Harris has taken a different direction, sonically Red Dirt Girl has a lot in common with Wrecking Ball . Multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Burn, a major contributor to the earlier album, on which he also served as engineer and mixer, plays again and produces here. Drum loops swirl and insinuate themselves underneath Harris' airy vocals. Guitars drone, distort, and echo, moving to the front of the mix and fading back again.