The Quiet Risk Inside Emmylou Harris’s Blackhawk, Daniel Lanois’s Shadowed Wrecking Ball Turn
On Blackhawk, Emmylou Harris stepped into Daniel Lanois’s atmosphere and found a new kind of...
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A Quiet Promise Holds Its Breath: Emmylou Harris’s “Someday My Ship Will Sail” on 1987’s Angel Band
On Angel Band, Emmylou Harris let “Someday My Ship Will Sail” drift in sacred quiet,...
Two Harmonies Deepened Gram Parsons’ In My Hour of Darkness: Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris on Grievous Angel
On In My Hour of Darkness, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris do not crowd Gram...
Two Voices Find One Ache: Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton’s When I Stop Dreaming on Luxury Liner
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton turned a Louvin Brothers lament into a...
Two Women Wrote the Goodbye: Emmylou Harris’s “Easy From Now On” and Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
On “Easy From Now On”, Emmylou Harris turned a co-written farewell into the soft-spoken doorway...
Three Voices, One Restraint: Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on Making Plans
On Making Plans, three famous voices step back from stardom and let country harmony do...
Emmylou Harris Hid a Quiet Jewel in “Diamond in My Crown” on The Ballad of Sally Rose
On “Diamond in My Crown”, Emmylou Harris turned a gospel image into one of the...
Emmylou Harris Didn’t Chase Tammy Wynette on Too Far Gone — She Made Pieces of the Sky Ache Differently
On Too Far Gone, Emmylou Harris did not try to overpower Tammy Wynette; she changed...
A Barroom Classic Turned Newly Exposed: Emmylou Harris’s “The Bottle Let Me Down” on Pieces of the Sky
On Pieces of the Sky, Emmylou Harris did not simply cover Merle Haggard’s barroom sorrow;...
Where the Story Turns Cold: Emmylou Harris’s “Timberline” and The Ballad of Sally Rose
In Timberline, Emmylou Harris turns a country road story into a high, exposed place where...
Garth Hudson’s Sax Sneaks Fire Into Emmylou Harris’s ‘Burn That Candle’ on Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
On Emmylou Harris’s 1978 album, “Burn That Candle” is the loose, bright flame in the...
One Line Carried the Album: How Emmylou Harris’s Easy From Now On Named Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
A song about leaving quietly gave Emmylou Harris one of her most evocative album titles,...
No Studio Gloss, No Escape: Emmylou Harris and The Nash Ramblers’ Live Half as Much at the Ryman
Inside the Ryman’s old country hush, Emmylou Harris turned Half as Much into a lesson...
A Whisper Learned to Rise: Emmylou Harris Recast “Defying Gravity” on Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
On a record rich with country-rock confidence, Emmylou Harris turned Jesse Winchester’s “Defying Gravity” into...
Emmylou Harris Didn’t Polish Wayne Kemp’s Feelin’ Single – Seein’ Double, She Let It Swing on Elite Hotel
On Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris took Wayne Kemp‘s honky-tonk wit and gave it the rush...
When Johnny Cash Grounds the Flight: Emmylou Harris’s Jordan on Roses in the Snow
In Jordan, Emmylou Harris lets an old gospel song rise like a bluegrass prayer, while...
When Love Turns to Smoke: Emmylou Harris Recasts Rodney Crowell’s Ashes by Now on 1981’s Evangeline
In Emmylou Harris’s hands, Rodney Crowell’s Ashes by Now stops being only a breakup song...
Two Voices, One Old Wound: Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton’s Luxury Liner “When I Stop Dreaming”
In Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton’s Luxury Liner duet, a Louvin Brothers standard becomes a...
Three Famous Voices, One Quiet Prayer: Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris Sing Farther Along on Trio
On Farther Along, three star voices step back until the harmony feels less like display...
A Sidekick Song With Teeth: Emmylou Harris’s “Rhythm Guitar” Drives The Ballad of Sally Rose
In Rhythm Guitar, Emmylou Harris lets the quiet instrument in the back line become the...
Emmylou Harris Took On the Radio Off the Dance Floor and Let White Shoes Turn It Inward
When Emmylou Harris sang On the Radio on White Shoes, a disco-era message song became...
One Harmony Widens the West: Emmylou Harris and John Denver’s 1983 “Wild Montana Skies”
In John Denver’s 1983 duet with Emmylou Harris, Wild Montana Skies becomes less a landscape...
Two Voices, One No. 1 Hope: Emmylou Harris and Earl Thomas Conley’s We Believe in Happy Endings
In 1988, two country voices met without trying to outshine each other, and a hopeful...
The Glow Was Never Hers Alone: Emmylou Harris’s Light of the Stable and Its 1979 Harmony Circle
On Light of the Stable, Emmylou Harris turns Christmas music into a circle of voices,...
Three Voices Recast Neil Young’s Warning: Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt’s After the Gold Rush from Trio II
On Trio II, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt turned “After the Gold Rush”...
Emmylou Harris Turned Sandy Denny’s Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Into a White Shoes Confession
On White Shoes, Emmylou Harris did not simply cover Sandy Denny; she carried a fragile...
A Factory Voice Crossed Over: Emmylou Harris Reframed James Taylor’s “Millworker” on 1981’s Evangeline
On Evangeline, Emmylou Harris carried James Taylor’s “Millworker” out of the theater and into country-folk,...
A Clean Voice, a Restless Heart: Emmylou Harris’s In My Dreams Carried White Shoes Into the 1984 Country Top 10
On In My Dreams, Emmylou Harris turned a polished country single into something quieter and...
A Voice Arrives by Holding Back: Emmylou Harris’s 1975 Before Believing on Pieces of the Sky
In Emmylou Harris’s first clear major-label arrival, Before Believing sounded less like a plea than...
A Stray Highway Song Returns: Emmylou Harris’ Me and Willie on the 2004 Luxury Liner Reissue
On the 2004 reissue of Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris let a stray song step into...