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Emmylou Harris: Album By Album

Bud Scoppa, Uncut, August 2007

FEW SINGERS are more universally revered than Emmylou Harris, whose glorious alto has serenaded us for the past 35 years. Her shimmering body of work is distinguished by her unerring taste in material ("I'm a song server," she once explained, with characteristic humility) and a low-keyed charisma that rises naturally out of her innate dignity, fierce intelligence and timeless beauty. Even to non-believers, Emmylou appears to be nothing less than a gift from God...

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