Home / Music / Wrecking Ball won Emmylou Harris a GrammyMusic linernotes album music emmylou-harrisWrecking Ball won Emmylou Harris a GrammyWrecking Ball won Emmylou Harris a Grammy. The album took Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1996 and is widely regarded as one of her finest artistic achievements. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesEmmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball left country behindSoul Journey brought Emmylou Harris back to acoustic folk-countryEmmylou Harris stripped Soul Journey down to wood, wire, and voice'Boulder to Birmingham' is Emmylou Harris' elegy for Gram ParsonsSongbird: Emmylou Harris picked the tracks herselfExploreThe Montreux Casino fire during a Frank Zappa show — that's what Smoke on the Water is actually aboutJon Balke composed Magnetic North for the 1994 Lillehammer Winter OlympicsChic wrote 'Le Freak' after getting turned away from Studio 54 on New Year's EveThe Beach Boys' Endless Summer compilation was rush-released after American Graffiti revived their popularityStevie Nicks wrote 'Edge of Seventeen' after losing her uncle and John Lennon in the same weekPrevious Brainfeeder is Flying Lotus' LA-based experimental labelNext Wrecking Ball was Emmylou Harris's 1995 New Orleans session with Daniel Lanois