A Name Emmylou Harris Refused to Soften: My Name Is Emmett Till on Hard Bargain
On My Name Is Emmett Till, Emmylou Harris turns a late-career folk song into an...
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A Quiet Wound on Bluebird: Emmylou Harris and the Self-Penned Grace of A River for Him
On A River for Him, Emmylou Harris did not need volume to sound devastated; she...
The Moon Swung Into Country: Emmylou Harris Recast How High the Moon on 1981’s Evangeline
When Emmylou Harris brought How High the Moon onto Evangeline, a sleek jazz-pop standard found...
The Quiet Ache Emmylou Harris Found in Jean Ritchie’s Sorrow in the Wind on 1979’s Blue Kentucky Girl
On Blue Kentucky Girl, Emmylou Harris turned Jean Ritchie’s mountain sorrow into something suspended in...
When the Dance Turns Guilty: Emmylou Harris’s The Last Cheater’s Waltz on Cimarron
On Cimarron, Emmylou Harris turns The Last Cheater’s Waltz into a slow dance where guilt,...
When the Race Felt Worn: Emmylou Harris’s Last Date Version of Bruce Springsteen’s Racing in the Street
On Last Date, Emmylou Harris carried Bruce Springsteen’s road-weary tale into country music’s quieter territory,...
Desire Refuses to Behave: Emmylou Harris’s I Don’t Wanna Talk About It Now on Red Dirt Girl
On Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou Harris turned obsessive love into motion: a pulse, a refusal,...
That Train Wouldn’t Sit Still: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell’s Tulsa Queen on Luxury Liner
On Tulsa Queen, Emmylou Harris turned motion into feeling, closing Luxury Liner with a song...
Linda Ronstadt’s Quiet Final Word on Trio II: When We’re Gone, Long Gone
With Linda Ronstadt at the front, When We’re Gone, Long Gone turns the end of...
A Farewell Too Tender to Shout: Emmylou Harris’s Darlin’ Kate on 2011’s Hard Bargain
On Darlin’ Kate, Emmylou Harris turns friendship into a spare farewell, letting grief speak with...
A 1950s R&B Vow Became Country Tenderness in Emmylou Harris’s Pledging My Love on White Shoes
On White Shoes, Emmylou Harris turned a 1950s R&B promise into country-pop intimacy, proving that...
She Borrowed Dolly Parton’s Childhood With Grace: Emmylou Harris’s Coat of Many Colors on Pieces of the Sky
On her 1975 breakthrough album, Emmylou Harris treated Dolly Parton’s childhood song not as material...
The Quiet Cut That Cuts Deep: Emmylou Harris’ “Lonely Street” on 1989’s Bluebird
On Bluebird, Emmylou Harris turned “Lonely Street” into country sorrow at its most restrained, where...
Emmylou Harris Made “Guitar Town” Run Faster at the Ryman With The Nash Ramblers Behind Her
On At the Ryman, Emmylou Harris took Steve Earle’s restless road song and let it...
A Restless Pulse Drives Emmylou Harris’s Rhythm Guitar Through The Ballad of Sally Rose
With Rhythm Guitar, Emmylou Harris gave The Ballad of Sally Rose its forward motion: a...
Before the Trio, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt Found Each Other on “Queen of the Silver Dollar”
On “Queen of the Silver Dollar”, Emmylou Harris turned a barroom portrait into something warmer,...
Emmylou Harris Turned Memory into Country Opera with The Ballad of Sally Rose in 1985
Before Emmylou Harris could tell Sally Rose’s story, she had to risk sounding less like...
The Dust Changed Emmylou Harris on Deeper Well, Wrecking Ball’s Grittiest Search
On Deeper Well, Emmylou Harris let the dust, doubt, and spiritual hunger of Wrecking Ball...
A Mother’s Watchful Prayer: Emmylou Harris’s My Baby Needs a Shepherd on 2000’s Red Dirt Girl
On Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou Harris turned maternal devotion into a quiet act of courage,...
Three Voices, One Ache: Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris Opened 1987’s Trio With The Pain of Loving You
Before Trio became a landmark meeting of three great voices, it opened with a warning:...
A Storm Song Starts Grinning: Emmylou Harris Turns Bad Moon Rising Country on 1981’s Evangeline
On Evangeline, Emmylou Harris took Bad Moon Rising out of the swamp and let it...
Donna Summer’s On the Radio Hit a Backroad on Emmylou Harris’s White Shoes
On White Shoes, Emmylou Harris did not simply cover Donna Summer; she sent On the...
Before It Became an Outlaw Standard, Emmylou Harris Set I Ain’t Living Long Like This Ablaze on Quarter Moon
On a restless 1978 album, Emmylou Harris turned Rodney Crowell’s outlaw sprint into something bright,...
A Farewell Without Bitterness: Emmylou Harris Recast Tom Rush’s No Regrets on 1989’s Bluebird
On 1989’s Bluebird, Emmylou Harris turned No Regrets from a folk-rock farewell into a country...
Resolve Barely Raises Its Voice: Emmylou Harris’s A Ways to Go Opens Cowgirl’s Prayer
Before Cowgirl’s Prayer settles into its intimate country-folk light, Emmylou Harris begins with A Ways...
Emmylou Harris Didn’t Need Volume for Rodney Crowell’s I Don’t Have to Crawl on 1981’s Evangeline
On Evangeline, Emmylou Harris let Rodney Crowell’s wounded pride become something quieter and stronger: a...
Death Becomes Almost Weightless in Emmylou Harris and the McGarrigles’ Sailing Round the Room on All I Intended to Be
In Sailing Round the Room, Emmylou Harris and the McGarrigle sisters turn mortality into a...
An Old Writing Bond Reappears in Emmylou Harris’s “Jupiter Rising” with Paul Kennerley on Stumble into Grace
On “Jupiter Rising”, Emmylou Harris turns a returning collaboration into a small celestial signal—quiet, weathered,...
A River Became an Ache in Emmylou Harris’s “Miss the Mississippi and You” on Roses in the Snow
On Roses in the Snow, Emmylou Harris carried “Miss the Mississippi and You” out of...
The Quiet Border Ache in Emmylou Harris’ Spanish Is a Loving Tongue from 1981’s Cimarron
On 1981’s Cimarron, Emmylou Harris gave an old border ballad a new kind of stillness,...