Emmylou Harris S/D

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Search: Pieces of the Sky, Blue Kentucky Girl

Destroy: Elite Hotel

I've also just bought Luxury Liner, but haven't listened to it yet...

Emmylou fans, learn me.

― pete s, Friday, 5 March 2004 23:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

I only have Luxury Liner, but it's very good.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh and to state the blindingly obvious

Search: all her duets with Gram

― pete s, Friday, 5 March 2004 23:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

search: she and Ramblin' Jack Eliot's cover of TVZ's "Rex's Blues"

― Aaron A., Saturday, 6 March 2004 00:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

uh 'her'

― Aaron A., Saturday, 6 March 2004 00:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Search > Oh My Sweet Carolina from Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker.

― Guy Incognito, Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

I wear my Emmylous Harris shirt more than any other band tee.

Not as classic has some may have you believe, but when she was on, she was ON.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

destroy 'elite hotel'?!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

search Wrecking Ball

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

Search every duet she ever sang with Gram Parsons.

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

how about the best of the Parsons duets? I'll go with "A Song for You"

― Aaron A., Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also, Elite Hotel, Pieces of the Sky and Luxury Liner, which are the only three albums of hers that I own, but they're all pretty good.

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Re: Duets. "Love Hurts" for me. Blows every other version of it out of the water.

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

agreed, but HONESTLY Kim Deals and Bob Pollards is ALMOST as good. No, SERIOUS!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

The only album I have is Luxury Liner but I dig it. Have been meaning to check out more. I will totally admit that the reason I initially bought it is because I wanted to hear the version of "She". Which is one my favorite songs ever.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I like that one a lot too. I thought I was the only one!

*cue strings*

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

x-post

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

'We'ill Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning', 'Hearts On Fire' and 'In My Hour Of Darkness' are my favourites among the duets.

― pete s, Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Is any of her 80s stuff worth getting? I mean.. I never bother buying any country stuff from the 80s. I just assume it's all dreck.

― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Elite Hotel is pretty limp. You've got some great songs there - 'Sin City', 'Wheels', 'Here There and Everywhere, 'Satan's Jewel Crown', and not one of them catches fire. She sounds bored all the way through IMO. 'Amarillo's cool tho.

― pete s, Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

I heard the record she did with Daniel Lanois in the mid-90s and it really bored me. Maybe I'd think differently now though. After all I've made my peace with U2, so who knows?

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

I don't think I've ever heard a record of hers and thought it bad.

I think she may be the greatest country singer ever.

― the rhinefox, Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Search: pretty much everything, including duets, cameos, collaborations, background vocals, guest appearences, tribute albums. Even the shitty stuff because, man, that voice!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Re the best of the Parsons duets I reckon "We'll Sweep Up The Ashes In The Morning". Though "Love Hurts" is obviously ace.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Bob Harris's show plays 'You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)'! Wow, when is this from?

― the pinefox, Friday, 28 October 2005 12:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

That's on "Luxury Liner", PF, as is "Pancho and Lefty", though of course Whispering Bob may have played some later version I don't know. It's very good.

To answer your question, that was 1976, I think. Sometime around then.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

'Wrecking Ball' is gorgeous!

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 08:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

You can get, or could get, that nice 2CD thing for £7 from Monsieur Le Fopp.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wrecking Ball is great. Her more recent albums overdo the ambient rootsy trip hop thing, but this one nails it. Even Larry Mullen manages to play some subtle drums. Deeper Well has a bit of the voodoo to it, while her cover of Dylan's Every Grain Of Sand is majestic. Waltz Across Texas is gorgeous too. Mmmm. Her former bandmate Ricky Scaggs thought it was too weird!

Her 70s albums are cool. Some stronger than others, and maybe a little polite in places, but some fantastic covers and lovely originals. The really special one is her neo-bluegrass album from 1980, Roses In The Snow. I LOVE that record. The line up of guests on there shows how well respected she was. You've got Cash doing awesome bass backing vocals on Jordan, Willie Nelson doing a bit of guitar, and Emmylou harmonising with Dolly Parton and Linda Rondstat. Her version of Wayfaring Stranger is stunning, while the Carter Family tunes where she harmonises with Ricky Scaggs are immense. And her version of The Boxer pwns the original.

― stew!, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

From what I've heard, I like Luxury Liner myself. My coworker who gives me rides home frequently is absolutely OBSESSED, so I've gotten to hear quite a bit of Emmylou. And while I like her and think she's been uncannily consistent over the years, a few observations:

1) She used to sing much more full-throated — since Wrecking Ball or so, she does a much more wispy thing with her voice. I'm sure age has something to do with it (we all get older, after all), but I tend to prefer the former style.

2) While her music and instrumentation have evolved over the years, when it comes to her singing—even accounting for the wispier singing on recent albums—she kind of brings the same quality to every song, every collaboration — something again that is more true in recent years. It's this wounded country girl yodel schtick which, while very viscerally engaging, can seem pretty one-dimensional when you hear the body of her work. Still, I like her.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

She looks like Michael Jackson now.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

someone else told me that too. he said that in the neil young movie she looks mummified by plastic surgery. say it ain't so, emmy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's so.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Still, looks better than the other guy.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

the emmylou/mark knopfler disc is really yuppie

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

yuppie or yachty?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

yuppity

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

her voice is gorgeous

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 03:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

and yr mum as well

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 04:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

her voice is my mum

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 04:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

i like emmylou a lot, but she's a folk singer, not a country singer.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 04:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

well, then.

― derrrick, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 06:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

(xpost)
You might want to check out some of her lps.

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 06:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Don't think I missed it, so I can't believe no one's mentioned "Boulder to Birmingham" specifically. One of the most achingly gorgeous songs ever.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 06:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

wot fever said

― t**t, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

i like her

― Surmounter, Monday, 9 March 2009 19:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

i saw her once. she was so pretty

― Surmounter, Monday, 9 March 2009 19:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Boy do I love "Wrecking Ball" and "Red Dirt Girl". Did she ever do anything else in a similar vein?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 28 May 2010 23:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Stumble Into Grace" is another album with that vibe, but I think the only one of those she ever nailed was "Wrecking Ball" (best choice of songs, more feeling overall, deeper production) and the rest are imitations. WB might be in my top twenty albums ever.

"Boulder to Birmingham" is flooringly good. She did two live albums that are both excellent: "Last Date" from the 80s is ace, but "Live at the Ryman" is a next-level hot-band straight-up country record that'll knock your face in.

― a reprehensible gentility of trouser (staggerlee), Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

sorry i neglected to differentiate between albums & "songs" in the above post.

― a reprehensible gentility of trouser (staggerlee), Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Any thoughts on the "Songbird" box set?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― buzza, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Her cover of Going Back to Harlan is one of my favorite things ever.

― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

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