Tender, aching, and heartbreakingly wise — Emmylou Harris makes “Sweet Old World” impossible to shake
On “Sweet Old World,” Emmylou Harris makes tenderness sound inseparable from grief — a performance...
On “Sweet Old World,” Emmylou Harris makes tenderness sound inseparable from grief — a performance...
“Every Grain of Sand” feels like a hidden Emmylou Harris masterpiece because it turns reflection...
On “I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose,” Emmylou Harris makes romance glow with longing rather...
On “All the Roadrunning,” Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler turn travel into something larger than...
On “If I Could Only Win Your Love,” Emmylou Harris proved astonishingly early that heartbreak...
On “Till I Gain Control Again,” Emmylou Harris makes honesty sound almost too intimate to...
“All My Tears” feels both broken and healing because Emmylou Harris sings it from the...
On “Deeper Well,” Emmylou Harris sounds less like a singer reaching for effect than a...
In Emmylou Harris’s voice, “Tennessee Waltz” becomes almost unbearably beautiful because she sings it not...
In Emmylou Harris’s hands, “Pancho and Lefty” loses none of its myth, but it gains...
On “Goodbye,” Emmylou Harris makes heartbreak sound almost weightless—so quiet, so resigned, so achingly beautiful...
On “Plaisir d’Amour,” Emmylou Harris sings as though sorrow had been distilled into its purest...
With “Red Dirt Girl,” Emmylou Harris did something rarer than simply singing a sad song—she...
“Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby” feels less like a song than an old Southern...
On “The Light,” Emmylou Harris sings as if comfort itself had been given a melody—soft,...
“Six White Cadillacs” moves like a half-remembered road song from the edge of midnight—restless, weary,...
In “Orphan Girl,” Emmylou Harris turned a song of spiritual loneliness into something almost eternal—a...
“Big Black Dog” sounds at first like one of Emmylou Harris’s darker mysteries, yet its...
On “Wrecking Ball,” Emmylou Harris sounds less like a singer standing before a microphone than...
“Boulder to Birmingham” broke country music’s heart because it sounded like grief before grief had...
On “Spanish Dancer,” Emmylou Harris steps into a song of longing, memory, and feminine inner...
On “Invitation To The Blues,” Emmylou Harris sings as if loneliness has already settled into...
On “Where Will I Be,” Emmylou Harris stepped beyond the old borders of country music...
When Emmylou Harris sings “Bury Me Beneath The Willow,” an old sorrow seems to stop...
With “In My Dreams,” Emmylou Harris made country music sound almost weightless — a song...
On “You’re Learning,” Emmylou Harris does not dramatize heartbreak so much as cradle it —...
“Strong Hand” is one of those Emmylou Harris songs that does not arrive with noise...
“Beneath Still Waters” is one of Emmylou Harris’s most elegant heartbreak records—a song where pain...
“Wheels of Love” in the hands of Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent, and Mary Black becomes...
“Calling My Children Home” is one of Emmylou Harris’s most deeply rooted recordings—a song of...