Daniel Lanois

  • Top 40 Over 40.27: No Protection

    Remixes usually disappoint me.  I often imagine it’s because they’re run off quickly without the remixer having an in person musical relationship with the artist they’re remixing.  I didn’t really dig either the UNKLE or Dust Brothers remixes that were done of Folk Implosion’s Natural One & Insinuation.  When One Part Lullaby came out in…

  • Top 40 Over 40.1: She walked in through the out door

    Emmylou Harris : Coat Of Many Colours (1977) I’ve just finished listening to Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris. It’s a phenomenal record. Why have I never heard anyone talk about it? Below the above picture you’ll find a link to an early clip of her covering another underrated songwriter, Dolly Parton. Could it be that…