A Hard Road Sung Clean: Emmylou Harris’s Rough and Rocky on 1979’s Blue Kentucky Girl
On a song built from stones, distance, and farewell, Emmylou Harris made the hard road...
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The ’90s Didn’t Rush Emmylou Harris: Brand New Dance Let Her Move on Her Own Terms
With Brand New Dance, Emmylou Harris did not chase a new decade so much as...
No Grand Entrance, Just Truth: Emmylou Harris’s Self-Penned “Here I Am” Opens Stumble into Grace
With “Here I Am,” Emmylou Harris begins Stumble into Grace not by announcing a return,...
Emmylou Harris Let ‘Your Long Journey’ Whisper on Thirteen, Turning Doc Watson’s Farewell Into Prayer
On Thirteen, Emmylou Harris treated Your Long Journey not as a showpiece, but as a...
Before Rodney Crowell Broke Through, Emmylou Harris Found the Vow Inside ‘Till I Gain Control Again’ on 1975’s Elite Hotel
On 1975’s Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris treated Rodney Crowell’s young song not as a discovery...
Two Voices, One Old Hurt: Emmylou Harris and Don Everly’s Everytime You Leave on 1979’s Blue Kentucky Girl
On Blue Kentucky Girl, Emmylou Harris and Don Everly made Everytime You Leave sound like...
Before Trio Had a Name: Linda Ronstadt’s My Blue Tears on Get Closer with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris
Before their celebrated Trio album, three country-rooted voices gathered around one Dolly Parton song and...
That Quick Bluegrass Smile: Emmylou Harris Brings Flatt & Scruggs’ I’ll Go Stepping Too to Roses in the Snow
On Roses in the Snow, Emmylou Harris made bluegrass feel quick, bright, and fully alive,...
The Quiet Last Word: Emmylou Harris Ends Bluebird with Butch Hancock’s If You Were a Bluebird
With If You Were a Bluebird, Emmylou Harris closes Bluebird not with a grand farewell,...
The Cajun Pulse Inside Emmylou Harris’s Self-Penned J’ai Fait Tout on Red Dirt Girl
In J’ai Fait Tout, Emmylou Harris lets a Cajun-leaning rhythm carry the restless honesty at...
The Smile That Wouldn’t Hold on Luxury Liner: Emmylou Harris Finds the Ache in Rodney Crowell’s You’re Supposed to Be Feeling Good
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris turned a Rodney Crowell song of forced reassurance into a...
Three Voices, One Mountain Shadow: Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris Find Grace in “High Sierra” from Trio II
On “High Sierra”, three of American music’s most beloved voices do not compete for the...
Grief Held Steady in Emmylou Harris’s Strong Hand, Her 2003 Stumble Into Grace Tribute to June Carter Cash
In Strong Hand, Emmylou Harris turns her farewell to June Carter Cash into a prayer...
A Weary Grace in Emmylou Harris’s Old Five and Dimers Like Me, Her 2008 Nod to Billy Joe Shaver
On All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris hears Billy Joe Shaver not as myth,...
Beneath 1977’s Luxury Liner Shine, Emmylou Harris Let Rodney Crowell’s You’re Supposed to Be Feeling Good Hurt
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris turned a young Rodney Crowell song into a country-rock lesson...
A Quiet Confession Deepens Emmylou Harris’s “A River for Him” on 1989’s Bluebird
On “A River for Him”, Emmylou Harris lets restraint do the heaviest work, turning an...
A Bluegrass Door Swung Open: Emmylou Harris’s Roses in the Snow Set Her 1980 Album in Motion
Before the album could travel anywhere else, Emmylou Harris let its first song clear the...
Profile II’s Quiet Surprise: Emmylou Harris’s Previously Unreleased Someone Like You Became a Billboard Country Hit
Someone Like You was the quiet extra on Profile II, but in 1984 Emmylou Harris...
A Polite Lie Cuts Deep: Emmylou Harris Recasts Jack Clement’s Just Someone I Used to Know on Thirteen
On Thirteen, Emmylou Harris turns Jack Clement’s country classic into a careful confession, where the...
A Showgirl Standard Suddenly Kicked Dust: Emmylou Harris Reworks Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend on White Shoes
When Emmylou Harris carried a Broadway jewel onto White Shoes, she did not polish it...
Emmylou Harris Let Jesse Winchester Breathe on My Songbird from Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
In Emmylou Harris’s hands, Jesse Winchester’s My Songbird becomes less a cover than a careful...
A Signal Through the Static: Emmylou Harris’s Can You Hear Me Now and the Stumble into Grace Sound
On Can You Hear Me Now, Emmylou Harris turned distance into atmosphere, letting a late-career...
Emmylou Harris Made Rodney Crowell’s “Baby, Better Start Turnin’ ’Em Down” Spark on White Shoes
On White Shoes, Emmylou Harris took a Rodney Crowell song and gave it the bright,...
A Road Song Caught Fire: Emmylou Harris and The Nash Ramblers Open At the Ryman with Guitar Town
In the first bright rush of Guitar Town, Emmylou Harris turned a Steve Earle road...
A Death in the Red Dirt: How Emmylou Harris’s “Red Dirt Girl” Anchored Her Grammy-Winning 2000 Album
With “Red Dirt Girl”, Emmylou Harris turned a small Southern tragedy into the emotional center...
Emmylou Harris Let Chip Taylor’s Son of a Rotten Gambler Breathe in the Shadows of Cimarron
On Cimarron, Emmylou Harris turned Son of a Rotten Gambler into a hushed piece of...
A Softer Kind of Risk: Emmylou Harris’s I Will Dream on 2003’s Stumble Into Grace
In I Will Dream, Emmylou Harris turns longing into atmosphere, letting a quiet original from...
Before Trio, Emmylou Harris’s Diamond in My Crown Let Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt Shine Through Sally Rose
Before the celebrated Trio album arrived, Emmylou Harris opened a small, luminous doorway where three...
Merle Haggard’s Hurt Found a New Voice on Thirteen: Emmylou Harris’s Grammy-Nominated Today I Started Loving You Again
On Thirteen, Emmylou Harris did not try to outdo Merle Haggard; she let his country...