Artist: Emmylou Harris
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Emmylou Harris / Patty Griffin / Shawn Colvin / Buddy Miller – Pabst Theater (Milwaukee, WI)
The aw-shucks modesty of this show’s title — “Three Girls And Their Buddy” — carried over into the coziness of the setup: four comfortably utilitarian chairs arrayed in a broad semicircle across the stage. When Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and Buddy Miller came out to occupy those chairs, they had the relaxed, collective [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
Emmylou Harris – Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems
The apparent effortlessness with which Emmylou Harris performs songs can belie her tenacity in finding and internalizing them in the first place. One anecdote in Peter Cooper’s track-by-track notes on Songbird has Harris stalking a mystery song she heard on “A Prairie Home Companion”, long before the internet put every lyric a Google search away. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – All The Roadrunning
Perhaps the highest compliment that could be bestowed on this record is that if you didn’t know about Mark Knopfler’s Dire Straits days or Emmylou’s Gram Parsons past and subsequent solo flowering, you might well suspect these two have been singing partners for a long time. Such is the ease with which their voices and [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Emmylou Harris – The Very Best Of…Heartaches & Highways
Doubtless the number who read this magazine and require a single-disc introduction to the recorded works of Emmylou Harris is miniscule. So, inevitably, is the number who would not quibble with the selections made for such a set, even though, in this case, the choices are those of the artist herself. If the body of [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Emmylou Harris – Pieces Of The Sky / Elite Hotel / Luxury Liner / Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town / Blue Kentucky Girl
In 1974 Emmylou Harris was still alarmingly close to being nobody. Her first album, 1968′s Gliding Bird, evaporated when Jubilee Records went out of business a few weeks after its release. (Apparently, this is a blessing.) Her singing partner, friend and mentor, Gram Parsons, had been dead about a year. Parsons, of course, had taught [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Buddy Miller / Daniel Lanois / Emmylou Harris – Sundance Music Cafe (Park City, UT)
With the film soundtrack compilation phenomenon still in full effect, songwriters and musicians are often drawn into the annual Sundance Film Festival, vying to get on the radar of the independent film world. Musical showcases and private-party performances abound, with Sundance 2003 drawing everyone from Low to Slash, Blackalicious to Sigur Ros. On a sunny [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Emmylou Harris – Anthology
The country music industry loves to repackage things. First off, they rarely conceive of albums as anything more than hits, potential hits, and stuff the artist insists on recording that radio will never play. Second, greatest hits packages sell, particularly to the casual fan looking for the certain winners radio has promised them. Third, it [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Emmylou Harris – Joe’s Pub (New York City, NY)
Joe Papp was the theatrical impresario instrumental in the development of the New York Shakespeare Festival and The Public Theater. From unusual treatments of the Bard in Central Park, to presentation of groundbreaking plays by David Mamet, to revolutionary musicals such as Hair and A Chorus Line, Papp was continually involved in pushing the envelope [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Emmylou Harris – Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris has now been opening ears, breaking hearts, challenging minds and stimulating fantasies in country and pop music for nearly 30 years, on more than 30 records. She has been atop the outside for so long that she functions virtually as the mother of alt.country — the one who reintroduced the Louvin Brothers to [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Emmylou Harris – Cimarron / Last Date
Emmylou Harris hit a creative and commercial peak in the late 1970s that was almost without precedent for a female country singer. By 1980 she had a collection of songs and recordings in hand that hadn’t fit onto earlier records. Cimarron gathered those strays together. Last Date is her 1982 live homage to the classic [...]
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