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Emmylou Harris: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"

David Hepworth, The Word, December 2003

For Emmylou Harris it was more than just "practice". She started out playing four shows a night six nights a week, became the "chick singer" for Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan and ended up the real first lady of country music, preparing to host her own series of shows at New York's most prestigious venue. "My life has been charmed," she tells DAVID HEPWORTH.

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