Emmylou Harris
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Emmylou Harris: Pieces of the Sky
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
THIS IS AN album that has been quite eagerly anticipated, mainly because of the reputation Emmylou Harris built for herself with her participation as co-vocalist ...
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, February 1977
A CLASSICALLY CONCEIVED album for one such as myself – two songs by Parsons, one by the Louvin Brothers, a Rodney Crowell, a Mr. Guy ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, December 2012
Ms Harris talks about her latest album (a collaboration with old associate Rodney Crowell) Old Yellow Moon; looks at how she fits into the current country/folk/Americana scene, and looks back at length at her early years and her work with the legendary Gram Parsons.
File format: mp3; file size: 25.5mb, interview length: 55' 45" sound quality: * (phoner)
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Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 13 January 1973
WHEN GRAM Parsons formed the International Submarine Band (one of the first country-rock bands to surface in an era of rock and roll) in 1966, ...
Gram Parsons: Parsons Knows...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 7 April 1973
Gram Parsons, former member of the Byrds and Burritos and now the proud owner of a solo album, talks to Loraine Alterman in New York ...
Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel (Warner Bros. MS 2171, Import)
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 16 February 1974
THEY SAY this isn't as good as GP and hopes have been expressed that Gram Parsons has left a legacy of more recorded material. Well ...
Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: Grievous Angel
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 28 March 1974
MICK JAGGER wrote 'Wild Horses' for and about the late Gram Parsons and its chorus describes the paradox that fueled Parsons’ life and vision. '...Wild ...
Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, April 1975
OVER RECENT months those familiar figures, the singer/songwriter and the solo artist have made their reappearance on the scene. But if you cast your eyes ...
EmmyLou Harris: Pieces of The Sky
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 10 April 1975
WHEN THE BYRDS recorded Sweetheart of the Rodeo in 1968, the romance between country music and pop was still secret. Seven years later, both country ...
Maria Muldaur & Emmylou Harris Live
Live Review by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, July 1975
Maria Muldaur: Carnegie Hall, New York Emmylou Harris: Schaefer Music Festival, Central park, New York ...
Emmylou Harris: Pieces Of The Sky
Review by Mick Houghton, ZigZag, August 1975
BUD SCOPPA once described Gram Parsons as the most convincing singer of sad songs he'd heard. Nothing he recorded was more heartrending than 'Love Hurts' ...
Emmylou Harris Still Loves Her Dolly
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 4 October 1975
"TACKY ISN'T IT?" Emmylou Harris grinned, pointing to a rainbow coloured T-shirt, the words Palamino Club emblazoned across the chest while a genuine chestnut mare ...
Emmylou Harris: The Prairie and the Sky
Interview by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, November 1975
EMMYLOU HARRIS is a country singer. Not simply because she has a single high in the country charts – it's her voice and the feeling ...
Emmylou Harris: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975
THE OTHER ROLLING thunder revue stole into town last week. ...
Emmylou Harris: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 29 November 1975
THE LIGHTS had just gone down, the musicians were just striking up when these two guys fell up the stairs singing loudly, "New York, New ...
Emmylou Harris: Elite Hotel (Reprise MS2236)
Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, January 1976
EMMYLOU HARRIS understands the idiom in which she chooses to work, and respects it: this separates Harris from the country-rock crowd, and makes her virtually ...
Review by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, January 1976
THE ELITE HOTEL is a swell place. It's best to travel there by car on a hot, sunny day with the windows rolled down, a ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 24 January 1976
"I WAS NERVOUS but I looked forward to playing overseas because I had this feeling there was an audience for my kind of music, especially ...
Review by Mick Brown, Street Life, 24 January 1976
AFTER JUST one album (two and a half if you count her collaborations with Gram Parsons a couple of years back) Emmylou Harris' name is ...
Emmylou Harris: Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 21 February 1976
EXACTLY EIGHT years ago a very uncertain singer stood in the centre of a New York recording studio singing demos to an audience of muzak ...
Emmylou Harris: The Dome, Brighton
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 21 February 1976
"FLOWERS?" Emmylou Harris grinned, staring down at a lovely bouquet hurled onstage as an appreciative thank-you from an ecstatic Brighton crowd. "Hey boys they're not ...
Emmylou Harris: Sincerity in Sin City
Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 20 March 1976
OF COURSE, Emmylou Harris has to be staying in an elite hotel. Large, rambling, fin-de-siecle. The author J. P. Donleavy stays here when he's in ...
Emmylou Harris: Bluegrass and Fiddle Festival, Long Beach, California
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 15 May 1976
EMMYLOU HARRIS and her excellent Hot Band just keep getting better. Their headline performance at the fourth annual Bluegrass and Fiddle Festival in Long Beach, ...
Emmylou Harris: Honky Tonk Woman
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 14 August 1976
Emmylou Harris pleads guilty to not being a genius, but she sure can sing country. BARBARA CHARONE reports. ...
Emmylou Harris Makes Up Leeway
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 25 September 1976
IT CAME as something of a surprise to learn that Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band were in town last week. To be precise, they ...
Emmylou Harris: My Father's Place, Long Island
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 2 October 1976
NEW ARTISTS consistently better their own past performances. Onstage progression and maturity all too often comes a back seat to the big buck commercialism of ...
Emmylou Harris: Luxury Liner (Warner Bros.)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977
While the Hot Band get hotter, Emmylou just gets better... ...
Emmylou Harris: Luxury Liner (Warner Bros.)**
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 15 January 1977
I'M SORRY, but I don't like Emmylou Harris very much. Doubtless you'll recommend me to the Inquisition for a Heresy like that. But I've been ...
Emmylou Harris: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 18 February 1978
CONSIDERING the tensions surrounding the start of Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band's current British tour, their SRO concert at the Royal Albert Hall was ...
Emmylou Harris: Full House at the Elite Hotel
Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, 16 March 1978
Emmylou Harris' Fourth LP Is a Grand and Seedy Selection ...
Emmylou Harris: Profile…Best Of Emmylou Harris
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
UNDOUBTEDLY, Emmylou's success has been to make traditional country music acceptable to a rock audience. She has a lot to answer for, and in a ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1979
Concert Tribute to Lowell George ...
Live Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979
IT'S IRONIC that Little Feat were never adjudged sufficiently commercial to have headlined a concert at Los Angeles' massive Forum, since the place was bursting ...
Various artists — Marlboro Country Festival: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 19 April 1980
MONDAY AT Wembley. Contemporary country night, give or take a few lower-order stetson-tilters. ...
Emmylou Harris: Return of the Electric Cowgirl
Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 6 July 1980
SEVEN YEARS ago, the threads in Emmylou Harris' cowgirl suit were beginning to fray around the edges. ...
Emmylou Harris Buys Back the Farm
Interview by Steven X Rea, High Fidelity, August 1980
A GIANT cement mixer blocks the road, halfway up the snaking cul-de-sac that ends at Emmylou Harris' rented ranch house. Nestled in a leveled out ...
Rodney Crowell: Country's New Laureate?
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, L.A. Weekly, 1 October 1981
"I EXPECTED him to be more of a household word than he is now," admits Emmylou Harris, echoing the opinion of some of the world's ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, unpublished, 1982
JH: Emmylou, were you always interested in country music? ...
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Guitar Greats' (BBC Books), 1983
ONE OF THE GREAT rock'n'roll guitarists of the 1950s, but a man who remained virtually unknown to all but the cognoscenti until comparatively recently, is ...
Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1986
A year after The New York Times ran its obit, country music is stronger than ever, thanks to artists like Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and ...
Emmylou Harris: Pieces Of The Sky
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, April 1994
WHEN GRAM PARSONS 'DISCOVERED' Emmylou Harris in late 1971, she was working as a folkie in Washington DC, and singing the occasional country tune like ...
Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball (Elektra/Asylum) ***
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 September 1995
ARE FANS of the Sweetheart of the Rodeo ready for EmmyloU2? ...
Emmylou Harris: Singing With a Voice That's Always True to Her Heart
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1996
EVEN WHEN Emmylou Harris was a fixture on the country charts for a decade starting in 1975, her music was marked by an uncommon sense ...
Emmylou Harris: The Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Retrospective and Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 2 August 1996
SERENDIPITY, WHAT Webster loosely defines as "dumb luck," is an important concept for Emmylou Harris. ...
Linda Ronstadt on Emmylou: And Then There Were Two…
Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 2 August 1996
CHRIS HILLMAN, who'd introduced Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, played matchmaker another time: Backstage at a concert in Texas, he put the newcomer together with ...
How We Met: Emmylou Harris and Phil Kaufman
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Independent, 5 October 1996
THE SINGER Emmylou Harris, 47, was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She started her career singing with country rock pioneer Gram Parsons, then after his death ...
Book Excerpt by James Hunter, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1999
COUNTRY ROCK, the incorporation of musical elements and songwriting idioms from traditional country music into late 1960s and '70s rock, usually pursued in Los Angeles. ...
The Everly Sisters: Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 24 September 1999
IT TOOK more than 25 years, two divergent careers and plenty of false starts, near-misses and might-have-beens, but Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have finally ...
Emmylou Harris: Red hot and no sign of a cowboy
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 11 October 2000
Forget all those whiney, lovesick singers. Emmylou Harris is the performer who makes country music respectable. Tim Cooper talks to her in New York as ...
Born to Run: Emmylou Harris' Red Dirt Girl
Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 12 October 2000
THE SOUND OF Wrecking Ball (Elektra), Emmylou Harris's 1995 album produced by former Brian Eno/Neville Brothers associate Daniel Lanois, drew me back toward her. ...
Emmylou Harris: Ghosts and Angels
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2000
The spectres of a war hero father and a doomed country troubador haunt her music. Emmylou Harris tells Phil Sutcliffe why she still hasn't found ...
Emmylou Harris: Anthology (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, September 2001
ALTHOUGH RARELY FORWARDED as a "woman in music" icon, it’s hard to think of a more exemplary career - male or female, consistent and daring ...
Farm Aid: Germain Amphitheater, Columbus, Ohio
Report by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 23 September 2003
I WAS EATING Neil Young when the highest points of my sojourn to this year's Farm Aid benefit concert occurred: veteran Crazy Horse bassist Billy ...
Angel of the South: Emmylou Harris
Profile and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 2 November 2003
IN A LONG BLACK dress, high heels and perfectly coiffured hair that shines silver blue under the spotlights, Emmylou Harris looks every inch the country ...
Emmylou Harris: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
Profile and Interview by 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" ...
Emmylou Harris And Spyboy: Carling Apollo, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, February 2004
EMMYLOU'S WEARING A BODY-HUGGING black dress, high heels and radiating style, class and smouldering sensuality. The opening 'Here I Am' sets the scene aptly enough, ...
Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris and the Imposters: Central Park SummerStage
Live Review by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 19 July 2005
IT SEEMS SLIGHTLY ridiculous now, but Elvis Costello's 1981 Almost Blue came with a sticker warning: "This album contains country & Western music & may produce radical reaction ...
Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris: SummerStage, Central Park, NYC
Live Review by Mac Randall, New York Daily News, 20 July 2005
"PITY ABOUT IT BEING so cold and all," Elvis Costello cracked toward the beginning of his Central Park SummerStage concert last night. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, June 2006
IN MORE politically incorrect times there was an ad campaign that featured famous women wrapped in full-length Russian mink coats – people like Elizabeth Taylor, ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2007
"FOR ME," says Emmylou Harris, "it's always about finding a song, one at a time, that I love and that I can make my own." ...
Emmylou Harris: Album By Album
Retrospective and Interview by 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 ...
Emmylou Harris: Songbird – Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (Rhino)
Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 3 October 2007
EMMYLOU HARRIS tends to overwhelm with her beauty in flesh and in voice, so it's instructive to look to her new rarities collection, Songbird: Rare ...
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 1 June 2008
At 61, Emmylou Harris is still the drop-dead-gorgeous queen of country rock. But behind closed doors the singer has sad secrets to reveal. ...
Review by Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, May 2011
IT'S SURPRISING THE American Association of Anesthesiologists hasn't chosen Emmylou Harris as the best voice to hear when awakening from surgery. ...
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 27 February 2013
ON 'HANGING UP MY HEART' and Roger Miller's vintage 'Invitation To The Blues', Old Yellow Moon's opening tracks, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris seem to ...
Heartaches and Hangovers: Gram Parsons' GP
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 2013
IT IS A FINE irony of her long career as the Queen of Country Rock that, on the night when Gram Parsons stopped by to ...
Old Friends, New Record: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell
Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, March 2013
It was a long time coming but, as Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell explain to David Burke, their new album together was all a matter ...
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: Old Yellow Moon
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2013
A COLLABORATION at once overdue, and worth the wait. ...
Retrospective by Holly Gleason, Paste, 8 April 2014
WHEN EMMYLOU HARRIS MADE Wrecking Ball, the atmospheric meditation on the unbearable lightness of being, it appeared the diaphanous vocalist had been gate-checked by the ...
Emmylou Harris, back where it all started
Profile by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 8 January 2015
THERE'S A REASON so many artists have signed on to take part in The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration on ...
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: The Traveling Kind
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 26 May 2015
IF OLD YELLOW MOON, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell's first-ever duet album, felt like old friends catching up and remembering old times, The Traveling Kind ...
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: The Traveling Kind
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2015
THE ADAGE which holds that you get your whole life to make your debut album, and barely a year or two to furnish your second, ...
How the Ghost of Gram Parsons haunts Alt-Country
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, January 2018
GRAM PARSONS didn't care much for the term "country-rock". And he wasn't thrilled by some of the more candy-coated bands who were able to capitalize ...
see also Albert Lee
see also Gram Parsons
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