Cowboys and other Western themes have long been among Harris's favorite subjects, and this album collects many of the Western tunes she's recorded over the years, from Shel...
more >
Following Harris' departure from Warner Bros., the label saw fit to compile Songs of the West, a collection of previously-released performances linked thematically by their...
more >
Portraits is a three-disc, 61-track box set covering Emmylou Harris' entire career for Reprise and Warner Records, which spans from 1974 to 1992. Not only does the box...
more >
Wrecking Ball 10/2/1995, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Harris's stunning album with producer Daniel Lanois redefined her sound so strongly that Asylum Records refused to let it appear on the country charts (too bad, 'cause it...
more >
Wrecking Ball is a leftfield masterpiece, the most wide-ranging, innovative, and daring record in a career built on such notions. Rich in atmosphere and haunting in its dark...
more >
She's been a beacon of personal integrity for so long that one is tempted to take Emmylou Harris for granted. And it seems that every time that's about to happen, this...
more >
This live project, which includes the talents of the always great Buddy Miller, is an interesting reflection of an American icon. Eclectic, it is reflective of Emmylou...
more >
Last Date offers a good indication of Harris' live sets with the Hot Band during the early '80s. Taking its title from her hit vocal version of the Floyd Cramer country...
more >
On her 29th album, Emmylou Harris continues the evolution from innocent folkie to present day renaissance woman. Alternately sparse and lush, Red Dirt Girl can be seen as a...
more >
Angel Band 1/1/1987, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
On this breathtaking, acoustic gospel album, Harris is backed by a band that includes Vince Gill on guitar, mandolin and tenor...
more >
Angel Band is yet another fascinating left turn, an acoustic record comprised of country-gospel songs like "We Shall Rise, " "If I Be Lifted Up" and "Someday My Ship Will...
more >
At The Ryman 1/14/1992, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
One of the best live country albums ever, recorded in a yet-to-be-refurbished Ryman Auditorium, the one-time home of the Grand Ole Opry. With the Nash Ramblers, an acoustic...
more >
This is the album debut of the Nashville Ramblers, her acoustic backing band featuring Sam Bush and Roy Huskey Jr, recorded over three nights in the former home of the Grand...
more >
Produced by Richard Bennett, who would later work with Steve Earle, Kim Richey and George Ducas, Bluebird has a mystic-country feel that in retrospect is almost a prototype...
more >
Like most of Emmylou Harris' albums, Bluebird is an expertly performed album, featuring some truly startling and affecting tour de forces. The material features a handful of...
more >
Ricky Skaggs joined Harris's Hot Band on fiddle, which, with Rodney Crowell already there, gives Harris two future solo artists in her band. And Harris's material ranges...
more >
In response to criticism that her records weren't "country" enough, Harris recorded Blue Kentucky Girl, one of her most traditional outings. Relying on a more acoustic...
more >
Harris's first album after disbanding her Hot Band is a straightforward country album by Harris standards, which means that in addition to working with top-flight session...
more >
In 1990, Emmylou Harris' run of superb mid-'70s albums was over, and she hadn't yet assembled the Nash Ramblers, the acoustic band that gave her music a heady kick-start...
more >
Cimarron contains two of Harris's biggest hits: "If I Needed You," a duet with Don Williams, and "Born To Run." "Born To Run" isn't a Bruce Springsteen song, but the song...
more >
That Cimarron, Emmylou Harris' ninth regular album, was assembled largely from recording sessions held for her previous couple of records is no necessary reflection on its...
more >
After spending more than 15 years with Warner/Reprise, Harris left the label for Asylum Records, where she'd record two albums. Cowgirl's Prayer was the first (Wrecking Ball...
more >
Cowgirl's Prayer, recorded in 1993, was the last album Emmylou Harris recorded before beginning a long association with producer and songwriter Daniel Lanois, creating her...
more >
Since Emmylou Harris first came to many people's attention as a harmony singer, it's no surprise that she's often sought as a duet partner. This collection compiles some of...
more >
On the heels of Trio, Harris' smash studio collaboration with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, comes the compilation Duets, which collects previously-released performances...
more >
Elite Hotel 1/1/1975, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Elite Hotel introduces Harris's Hot Band and contains three tunes by Gram Parsons, Harris's musical mentor. A cover of the Buck Owens tune "Together Again" became Harris's...
more >
While Emmylou Harris spent much of her career carrying on the legacy of Gram Parsons, Elite Hotel ranks among her most overt tributes to his genius, thanks to its covers of...
more >
Harris's pristine soprano makes the perfect vehicle to convey the purity of songs like "Silent Night," "Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem" and "Away In A Manger." Most of this...
more >
Emmylou Harris is an artist with the rare sort of voice that communicates an honest and firmly grounded humanity while possessing a crystalline purity that verges on the...
more >
Luxury Liner 1/1/1977, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Reportedly Harris's best-selling album, Luxury Liner brings together songs by Gram Parsons (the title tracks), the Louvin Brothers ("When I Stop Dreaming"), Chuck Berry...
more >
Luxury Liner ranks as Emmylou Harris' best-selling solo record to date, and it's one of her most engaging efforts as well; her Hot Band is in peak form, and the songs are...
more >
Pieces Of The Sky has to be one of the best major-label debuts of any country artist. All the elements of classic Harris albums appear here: exceptional musicians (guitarist...
more >
Emmylou Harris' major-label solo debut quickly establishes the pattern that the vast majority of her subsequent work would follow: Pieces of the Sky is bravely eclectic,...
more >
Another collection of quality songs by writers including Dolly Parton (the single "To Daddy"), Delbert McClinton ("Two More Bottles Of Wine"), band member Rodney Crowell,...
more >
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town is a transitional effort which bridges the curveballs of Harris' earliest solo work with the more traditional country albums which comprise...
more >
Ricky Skaggs, who'd joined the band on 1979's Blue Kentucky Girl, takes a more prominent role on this mostly acoustic album, so Roses In The Snow marks Harris's first real...
more >
Combining acoustic bluegrass with traditional Appalachian melodies (and tossing one contemporary tune, Paul Simon's "The Boxer," into the mix), Roses in the Snow ranks among...
more >
This is one of the most intriguing albums of Emmylou Harris' career, and that is saying a lot. It marked the first album where she wrote or co-wrote all the songs, and the...
more >
Thirteen takes its title from the number of solo efforts Harris had recorded to date; her numbering didn't take into account hits collections or her true debut, Gliding...
more >
White Shoes 1/1/1983, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Good songs (T-Bone Burnett's "Drivin' Wheel," Donna Summer's "On The Radio," Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love") and typically diverse, but this country-rock effort doesn't gel...
more >
Harris' final album with longtime producer (and husband) Brian Ahern is among her most surprising and diverse, perhaps the closest she's ever come to a straightahead rock...
more >
An 11-time Grammy-winner, duet partner for anyone who can carry a note, and one of country music's most distinctive stylists--who can't identify her within three...
more >
There's something just the slightest bit comic about calling an Emmylou Harris album Stumble into Grace. While Harris has always sounded as if both earthly and spiritual...
more >
Luxury Liner, the third album from Emmylou Harris, is another watermark. Taking the country-rock paradigm created by her former singing partner Gram Parsons with the Flying...
more >
1978's Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town was Emmylou Harris' first deliberate swing for the country music charts -- though she had been there steadily since 1975. Unlike her...
more >
1979's Blue Kentucky Girl was the first pure country record Emmylou Harris ever recorded. It has a stripped-down sound that is as close to the country bone as anything...
more >
Emmylou Harris' Pieces of the Sky is one of the more welcome entries in her catalog. Before the auspicious and provocative Elite Hotel, issued later in 1975, Pieces of the...
more >
Elite Hotel is the second album Emmylou Harris recorded for Warner Brothers, issued in the same year as her debut masterpiece, Pieces of the Sky. Elite Hotel is the album...
more >
