'Baby' by Donnie and Joe Emerson Listen ad-free with YouTube Red. Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild. Many private pressings were made with the highest hopes; one such was Donnie and Joe Emerson’s Dreamin’ Wild from 1979. Later, Donnie had a short stint in LA.

In 1978 on a 1,600-acre farm in rural Washington, Don Emerson Sr., one of a long line of builders, loggers and sawmill workers whose livelihood was earned in the timber surrounding them, noticed that two of his teenage sons, Joe and Donnie, had taken a liking to music. He'd see them doing their chores while listening to radio from Spokane 70 miles to the southeast and encouraged them as they began writing and playing their own music. They even went into a studio to make a record but were disappointed with the experience. So when the brothers came to their pragmatic father and said they'd like to try again, he gave them a straight answer.

'I commented that I wasn't going to support them unless they'd done something that you could market — do an album or something like that,' says Don Sr., now in his early 80s, on the phone from that same farm. 'I didn't want to see them just playing the bars and doing that stuff only. I wanted to see something done that was tangible.' Donnie, then 17, and Joe, then 19, agreed, and the father set to work on something remarkably — some would say extravagantly — tangible. On an empty plot of the family farm, he built a state-of-the-art $100,000 recording studio.

And in that studio, the boys recorded the newly reissued 'Dreamin' Wild,' a naive but utterly beguiling private-press 1979 rock curio that at its best, reveals the young songwriter of the two, Donnie, learning to express his inner feelings via the mix of rock, soul, R&B, country and funk music he and his older brother/drummer Joe heard on the radio. And then a profound silence. The couple of thousand vinyl copies languished in boxes in the basement. That is, until this year. Thirty-three years later, the record has just been reissued by the respected Light in the Attic records, and the best song on it, 'Baby,' has already become an unlikely summer 2012 underground hit. The music website Pitchfork just scored the album 8.0 on a scale of 10. World Wide Packets Lightning Edge 46 Manualidades. Avant rock singer Ariel Pink has released his version of the song, a collaboration with L.A.