A Bright 1977 Secret on Luxury Liner: Emmylou Harris’s I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose Still Deserves Its Turn
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris turned Susanna Clark’s San Antonio daydream into a bright, restless...
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A Friend’s Song in Winter Light: Linda Ronstadt’s 1993 “A River for Him” Revealed Emmylou Harris in a New Way
When Linda Ronstadt sang Emmylou Harris’s “A River for Him” on Winter Light, a private...
The Chart Run Had a Steel Edge: Emmylou Harris’s “I Don’t Have to Crawl” Kept Evangeline’s Country-Rock Fire Alive in 1981
In 1981, Emmylou Harris turned a Rodney Crowell song into a lean country-rock statement about...
The Carter Family Thread Came Alive Again: Emmylou Harris and Nicolette Larson’s Hello Stranger on 1977’s Luxury Liner
On Hello Stranger, Emmylou Harris and Nicolette Larson turned an old Carter Family song into...
That First Bright Jolt: Emmylou Harris’s Co-Written “Amarillo” Opened 1975’s Elite Hotel With Country-Rock Fire
Before Elite Hotel settled into its rich conversation with country history, Emmylou Harris let “Amarillo”...
Before Trio Had a Name, Emmylou Harris’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues on Blue Kentucky Girl Revealed the Dolly Parton-Linda Ronstadt Spark
Before their voices became known as Trio, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt let...
The Top 10 Country Surprise on Evangeline: Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton’s Mr. Sandman
A playful old pop dream became a country-chart surprise when three of the finest voices...
The Old Ryman Became the Instrument: Emmylou Harris and The Nash Ramblers Revive Hard Times on 1992’s At the Ryman
On a worn Nashville stage, Emmylou Harris turned an old Stephen Foster plea into a...
Two Weathered Voices, One Quiet Promise: Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson’s 1990 “Gulf Coast Highway” Revealed the Soul of Nanci Griffith’s Song
In their 1990 duet, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson made Nanci Griffith’s Gulf Coast story...
At the Very End, Grace Arrived: Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt Closed 1987’s Trio With Farther Along
At the close of Trio, three great voices leave the spotlight behind and return to...
Before Trio Had a Name, Emmylou Harris’ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Brought Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt Together
Years before Trio became a formal collaboration, one song on Blue Kentucky Girl let three...
When the Harmony Changed the Song: Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons on 1974’s “Love Hurts” from Grievous Angel
On the 1974 Grievous Angel recording of “Love Hurts”, Emmylou Harris does more than harmonize...
The Song That Said It Softly: Emmylou Harris’s ‘Strong Hand’ on Stumble Into Grace Was Her Tribute to June Carter Cash
Strong Hand is one of those rare late-career songs that honors a friend by refusing...
When 1995’s Wrecking Ball Floated Into the Mist, Emmylou Harris Grounded It With Goin’ Back to Harlan
On Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris stepped into Daniel Lanois’ echo and twilight, but Goin’ Back...
One of Her Purest Performances: Emmylou Harris Lets “Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn” Breathe on Roses in the Snow With Ricky Skaggs
On Roses in the Snow, Emmylou Harris finds the quiet strength inside “Darkest Hour Is...
The Song That Told the Truth: Emmylou Harris’s Woman Walk the Line and the Quiet Boldness of 1985’s The Ballad of Sally Rose
On Woman Walk the Line, Emmylou Harris turns a fictional heroine into something more revealing:...
A Familiar Song, Suddenly Appalachian: Emmylou Harris Turned The Boxer Into the Soul of 1980’s Roses in the Snow
On Roses in the Snow, Emmylou Harris takes The Boxer out of monumental folk-rock and...
That Quiet Third Voice: How Emmylou Harris Made ‘To Know Him Is to Love Him’ the Soul of 1987’s Trio
On Trio, Emmylou Harris does not overpower “To Know Him Is to Love Him”; she...
It Sounds Like It Was Always Hers: Emmylou Harris Brings Quiet Country Grace to Here, There and Everywhere on Elite Hotel
On Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris took one of the Beatles‘ most delicate love songs and...
Before Rodney Crowell Broke Through, Emmylou Harris Made Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight the Spark of Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
On Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Emmylou Harris turned Leaving Louisiana in the...
It Barely Raises Its Voice: Emmylou Harris Finds the Soul of David Olney’s ‘Jerusalem Tomorrow’ on Cowgirl’s Prayer
On Cowgirl’s Prayer, Emmylou Harris turns “Jerusalem Tomorrow” into a low-burning act of storytelling, where...
A Different Kind of Texas Dream: How Emmylou Harris Let “Waltz Across Texas Tonight” Drift Through Wrecking Ball
On Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris took a country waltz and let it float through shadow,...
A Gospel Echo That Never Left: Emmylou Harris, “Satan’s Jeweled Crown,” and the Soul of Elite Hotel
On Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris used “Satan’s Jeweled Crown” to bring the stern beauty of...
Before Trio Had a Name, Emmylou Harris’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Revealed the Harmony to Come
Long before Trio had a title, Emmylou Harris was already standing inside that sound on...
It Begins Like a Memory: Emmylou Harris’s Shores of White Sand Opens All I Intended to Be in Quiet, Lasting Grace
On All I Intended to Be, Shores of White Sand arrives like weather instead of...
So Light It Nearly Vanishes: How Emmylou Harris Made “Defying Gravity” Feel Even More Fragile
On Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Emmylou Harris sings “Defying Gravity” as if...
The Softest Ache on Pieces of the Sky: Why Emmylou Harris’s “Sleepless Nights” Still Feels So Personal
On Pieces of the Sky, Emmylou Harris turns “Sleepless Nights” into something hushed and close,...
When Three Great Voices Became One: Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris Find Pure Grace on “Wildflowers”
On “Wildflowers”, three unmistakable singers stop sounding like separate stars and start sounding like one...
A Different Kind of Empty: Emmylou Harris Recasts My Father’s House on 1986’s Thirteen
On Thirteen, Emmylou Harris does not simply cover My Father’s House; she opens its locked...
The Quiet Turning Point: Emmylou Harris Made “All My Tears” the Soul of 1995’s Wrecking Ball
On Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris did more than record “All My Tears”; she found a...