The Smile That Wouldn’t Hold on Luxury Liner: Emmylou Harris Finds the Ache in Rodney Crowell’s You’re Supposed to Be Feeling Good
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris turned a Rodney Crowell song of forced reassurance into a...
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Emmylou Harris Made Rodney Crowell’s “Baby, Better Start Turnin’ ’Em Down” Spark on White Shoes
On White Shoes, Emmylou Harris took a Rodney Crowell song and gave it the bright,...
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...
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...
A Door Left Open: Emmylou Harris’s Waltz Across Texas Tonight at the End of Wrecking Ball
At the end of Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris did not resolve her reinvention so much...
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...
The Twilight Turn Few Expected: How Daniel Lanois Recast Emmylou Harris’s Waltz Across Texas Tonight on Wrecking Ball
On Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris let a country waltz drift into dusk, and Waltz Across...
That First Burst of Light: Emmylou Harris’s “Bluebird Wine” Opens 1975’s Pieces of the Sky
Before Emmylou Harris carried listeners into the ache and grace of Pieces of the Sky,...
The Track That Set the Tone: How Emmylou Harris Made I Ain’t Living Long Like This Burn on Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
On Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Emmylou Harris turned I Ain’t Living Long...
Before Rodney Crowell Took Center Stage, Emmylou Harris Set Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Loose on Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
Fast, bright, and deceptively weightless, this 1978 recording shows how Emmylou Harris could carry a...
Long After the Fire, Emmylou Harris Turned Ashes by Now Into the Quiet Heartbreak of Evangeline
On Ashes by Now, Emmylou Harris takes a finely written Rodney Crowell song and turns...
When ‘Bull Rider’ Grew Older: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell Found Its Deepest Grace on Old Yellow Moon
A song once haunted by prairie distance returns in older voices, where Emmylou Harris and...