Emmylou Harris

    As I mentioned in consciouslyinsane’s post of Emmylou’s cover of "For No One",   her take on "Here There and Everywhere is an all time fav of mine. Play close attention to the harmonica/string interlude, I find it breathtakingly out of this world.             

On 'ten commandments of country', Emmylou Harris covered the Beatles song For No One. The mandolin is so great: She also did a cover of the (amazing) Flying Burrito Brothers song Sin City. Unfortunately the embed is disabled , but the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCn0SEaL0SE

Imagine a lake, calm and flat, shimmering through the changing light of day. There’s nothing going on, not much happening. Now, add a few guitars, a mandolin and country legends like Dolly Parton, Vince Gill and the McGarrigle sisters. Surprise, surprise… there’s still not much happening, but it’s such a nice place to be. If that sounds inviting, you’re going to want Emmylou Harris’s latest CD, All I Intended to Be. Four years in the making, this effort reconciles Harr... MORE

Since road trips seem to be on my mind today, I'll start with a little US-memoir. A couple of years back I had occasion to go on a grand tour of the southern 'Villes, to wit: start in Gainesville, Florida, drive up to Louisville, Kentucky and finally, crossing the Smokies, end up in another Gainesville - this one in Georgia. This peculiar itinerary was occasioned by a couple of invites (the two Gainesvilles) and a conference on 20th C. literature sandwiched in between (it ... MORE

"Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran awayShe'll walk 'til she finds him her darlin' her strayBut the river's in flood and the roads are awashAnd the bridges break up in the panic of loss And there's nothin' to follow nowhere to goHe's gone like the summer gone like the snowAnd the crickets are breaking her heart with their songAs the day caves in and the night is all wrong Did she dream it was he who went galloping pastAnd bent down the fern broke open the grass... MORE

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Over a year ago my wife and I started the process to adopt a child from Guatemala. In April we were matched with a beautiful baby boy, then 3 weeks old, and have received monthly updates, including pictures. All has been proceeding as planned, until the President of Guatemala announced that all adoptions, including ones in-process like ours, would be halted on January 1, 2008. We anticipated traveling there in January or February. This is one of those moments when you ... MORE

Tomorrow fellow babies, the deadman walks sacred ground. Fort Adams State Park in Newport RI. A place steeped in history. MUSICAL history. To numerous to mention here. Or here So tomorrow I will see Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Union Station, RI's own Cheryl Wheeler, and Saint Ralph Stanley.God, the "jam" potential is great here. I'm pretty sure Emmylou won't be singing this song though, She doesn't much anymore. A cathartic hymn written as a reaction to/medita... MORE

Well it is that time of the year for the greatest music festival on planet Earth. 6 days'til paradise @ The Telluride Bluegrass Festival! This year's lineup: - Chris Thile- Crooked Still- The Avett Brothers- Jackie Greene- Telluride House Band featuring Béla, Sam, Jerry, Edgar, Darol, Bryan- Emmylou Harris w/ John Starling & Carolina Star- Counting Crows- Infamous Stringdusters- Mike Marshall & Hamilton de Holanda- The Jerry Douglas Band- Guster- Béla Fleck & the... MORE

Emmylou Harris will be releasing an 80-song boxed set on September 18th, complete with 2 discs of studio session recordings and 2 discs of rarities. "They're kind of favorites,” Harris told Billboard.com of the unreleased material making the compilation. “I call them my orphans, songs that maybe I didn't even perform that much but I loved enough to record in the studio. Things like 'Coat of Many Colors,' which was one of my favorite songs of all time, or 'Ballad of a Runaw... MORE

But one thing they don't tell you about the bluesWhen you got emYou keep on falling cause there ain't no bottomThere ain't no end.At least not for Lillian Nobody knows when she started her skid,She was only 27 and she had five kids.Coulda' been the whiskey,Coulda been the pills,Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill.But there won't be a mention in the news of the worldAbout the life and the death of a red dirt girlNames LillianWho never got any farther across the l... MORE

Nanci Griffith's Gulf Coast Highway, with Dave Matthews. Emmylou's collaborations with Dave brought about some fine tunes. I am not a big Dave Matthews fan, but I enjoyed everything they did together: Ray Charles' You Don't Know Me, a rare performance of Emmylou sans guitar: The Beatles' For No One, from the great Translatlantic Sessions in 1995: An original Emmylou song in the comments.