Bluegrass Wasn’t a Detour for Emmylou Harris: I’ll Go Stepping Too on Roses in the Snow
On Roses in the Snow, Emmylou Harris made an old bluegrass number feel less like...
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Three Voices Turned a Warning Into Prayer: Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris Sing “After the Gold Rush” on Trio II
On Trio II, three unmistakable voices took Neil Young’s dreamlike warning and made it feel...
First Track, No Soft Landing: Emmylou Harris’s Amarillo Opened Elite Hotel with a Rodney Crowell Co-Write
As the first sound of Elite Hotel, Amarillo makes Emmylou Harris feel already on the...
A Neil Young Road Song Became a Goodbye in Emmylou Harris’ Live Long May You Run on Last Date
In Emmylou Harris’ hands, Neil Young’s road song stops sounding like a keepsake and starts...
A Whisper Carried the Room: Emmylou Harris’s “Sailing Round the Room” With the McGarrigles on All I Intended to Be
On a 2008 album shaped by memory and restraint, Emmylou Harris let “Sailing Round the...
A Top 10 Spark in Emmylou Harris’s Cimarron Era: “Tennessee Rose” Refused to Sit Still
In the Cimarron years, Emmylou Harris turned movement, melody, and country poise into a Top...
Before Trio Had a Name, Emmylou Harris’ 1979 Light of the Stable Gathered Dolly, Linda, and Neil
Long before country music formalized its famous sisterhood, Emmylou Harris gathered four unmistakable voices around...
Emmylou Harris Let “Rough and Rocky” Stay Old on Blue Kentucky Girl, and the Lament Cut Deeper
On Blue Kentucky Girl, Emmylou Harris treated “Rough and Rocky” not as a museum piece,...
A Darker Prayer on Cowgirl’s Prayer: Emmylou Harris Enters David Olney’s “Jerusalem Tomorrow”
On Cowgirl’s Prayer, Emmylou Harris turns David Olney’s “Jerusalem Tomorrow” into a quiet reckoning between...
Emmylou Harris Hit the Gas on Drivin’ Wheel, the White Shoes Cover That Refused to Sit Still
On White Shoes, Emmylou Harris made Drivin’ Wheel feel less like a borrowed song than...
Quiet Hurt Runs Deep in Emmylou Harris’s I Had My Heart Set on You from Thirteen, Written by Rodney Crowell and Paul Kennerley
On Thirteen, Emmylou Harris made a Crowell-Kennerley heartbreak feel almost private, proving how much country...
One Linda Ronstadt Harmony Reframed Emmylou Harris’s Queen of the Silver Dollar on Pieces of the Sky
On Pieces of the Sky, Emmylou Harris gave Shel Silverstein’s barroom queen a voice of...
A River Becomes a Reckoning: Emmylou Harris Sings Merle Haggard’s Kern River on 2008’s All I Intended to Be
On All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris turns Merle Haggard’s Kern River into a...
Loretta Lynn’s Hurt Turned Elegant in Emmylou Harris’s Grammy-Winning 1979 “Blue Kentucky Girl”
In Emmylou Harris’s hands, “Blue Kentucky Girl” became less a plea than a poised return...
Before Trio Had a Name, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris Lifted My Blue Tears on Get Closer
Before the word Trio became a promise, three voices met inside My Blue Tears and...
Buried on Thirteen, Emmylou Harris and Paul Kennerley’s “Sweetheart of the Pines” Feels Like a Private Letter
On an album often passed by too quickly, Emmylou Harris let “Sweetheart of the Pines”...
Two Voices Carried Utah Phillips Home: Emmylou Harris and Fayssoux Starling’s Green Rolling Hills on Quarter Moon
On Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Green Rolling Hills became a quiet meeting...
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa Bring a Quiet Storm to Emmylou Harris’s Red Dirt Girl “Tragedy”
On “Tragedy”, Emmylou Harris lets three voices gather like weather, turning a spare confession into...
That Tanya Tucker Spark on Emmylou Harris’s Sister’s Coming Home Made Willie Nelson’s Tune Dance
On Blue Kentucky Girl, Emmylou Harris took Willie Nelson’s Sister’s Coming Home and let Tanya...
When Johnny Cash Enters Emmylou Harris’s Jordan, Roses in the Snow Finds Its Gospel Weight
On Jordan, Emmylou Harris and Johnny Cash turn a traditional gospel river into a meeting...
A Classic Turns Inward: Emmylou Harris Revisits Eddy Arnold’s “You Don’t Know Me” on 1993’s Cowgirl’s Prayer
On Cowgirl’s Prayer, Emmylou Harris turns You Don’t Know Me into a lesson in restraint,...
Two Voices, One Old Wound: Emmylou Harris and John Anderson’s Classic Country Ache on “Just Someone I Used to Know” from 1986’s Thirteen
On Thirteen, Emmylou Harris and John Anderson turned an old country farewell into a quiet...
She Didn’t Just Cover Chuck Berry: Emmylou Harris Turned (You Never Can Tell) C’est La Vie into a Luxury Liner Country Hit
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris found the country road hidden inside Chuck Berry’s wry rock-and-roll...
She Put Chuck Berry in Overdrive: Emmylou Harris’s “C’est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)” on Luxury Liner
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris took Chuck Berry’s teenage tale of chance and turned it...
Three Voices, One Appalachian Memory: Emmylou Harris’s “Gold Watch and Chain” With Ricky Skaggs and Linda Ronstadt
On Roses in the Snow, Emmylou Harris turned an old Carter Family treasure into a...
When Emmylou Harris Took “The Maker” Onstage, Spyboy Turned the Wrecking Ball Sound Into a Living Pulse
On Spyboy, Emmylou Harris did not simply revisit the atmosphere of Wrecking Ball; she let...
A Soft Harmony Changes Everything: Emmylou Harris’s “Green Rolling Hills” with Fayssoux Starling
Emmylou Harris turned “Green Rolling Hills” into a hushed roots conversation, where Fayssoux Starling’s harmony...
A Quiet Texas Voice Comes Forward: Emmylou Harris, Susanna Clark, and I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose on 1977’s Luxury Liner
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris gave Susanna Clark‘s songwriting a clear, graceful place in the...
The Gram Parsons Echo That Made Emmylou Harris’s Hot Burrito #2 on 1981’s Evangeline Cut So Deep
On Evangeline, Emmylou Harris turned Hot Burrito #2 from a Flying Burrito Brothers surge into...
The Quiet Voice That Deepened the Wound: Emmylou Harris on Trio’s 1987 “Telling Me Lies”
On Trio’s “Telling Me Lies,” Emmylou Harris does not seize the spotlight; she steadies the...