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With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America’s most important musical movements of the past three decades. A steadfast supporter of roots music and a skilled interpreter of compelling songs, she also has been associated with a diverse and dazzling array of admiring collaborators from Bright Eyes to Tammy Wynette and from Neil Young to Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

The songbird’s contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years Emmylou Harris certainly has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own. Her 1995 Wrecking Ball was a watershed album for her, combining several world-music elements with acoustic instruments, driving percussion, and a folk/roots flavor, and in general catching audiences by surprise, as Harris yet again reinvented her sound. The new style would evolve on a number of Harris’ subsequent releases, including 1998’s Spyboy, 1999’s Western Wall (a collaboration with Linda Ronstadt), 2000’s Red Dirt Girl and 2003’s Stumble into Grace.

Harris took up guitar as a teenager inspired by the folk music of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Judy Collins. Starving-artist stints in New York City and Nashville led to regular club work in Washington D.C. where Chris Hillman first saw Emmylou perform. Hillman and country-rock visionary Gram Parsons had been band mates in The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, but now Gram was on his own doing solo material, and had told his former band mate he was looking for “a chick singer” for his first solo record.

Hillman had seen Harris perform at a club in DC and told Parsons about Emmylou, but neither gentleman knew how to get in touch with her until a chance encounter between Harris’ babysitter, Hillman and Parsons led to Emmylou on a plane to Los Angeles in 1972 to sing on Parsons’ first record. Harris went on to become Gram’s permanent duet partner and, as such, set a new standard for harmonies and duet vocals.

“I lucked into this whole thing,” she comments.  “One little millimeter would have made the difference. If my babysitter hadn’t been at that Flying Burrito Brothers concert and given Gram my phone number, if Gram hadn’t come into my life, who knows what would have become of me?”

After Parsons’ untimely death, Emmylou emerged as a solo star with Pieces of the Sky in 1975. The album electrified the country-music world, becoming the first in a series of annual gold or platinum albums through the ‘70s. Her next 3 releases (Elite Hotel, Luxury Liner and Quarter Moon in a Ten-Cent Town) made her an unquestioned country-rock leader, and since then Emmylou Harris has been regarded as a key figure in the movement that united rock audiences with country traditionalists. She made country music “hip” and brought it to a vast youth market for the first time.  Then she led the way back to neo-traditionalist sounds with 1979’s Blue Kentucky Girl. The following year’s Roses In the Snow paved the road toward the bluegrass revival during the ‘80s – an era of urban cowboys and country-pop.  Emmylou rose to become the authentic voice of country with these albums, as well as Evangeline, Cimarron and Bluebird.

By the early 1990s Harris changed her sound again with the acoustic band The Nash Ramblers and honored one of country music’s most legendary concert halls with the Grammy-winning Live at the Ryman CD of 1992.  Just three years later, Emmylou took a leading role in yet another musical revolution—the Americana movement that gave country music its “alternative” wing. Continuing to expand boundaries, this time Emmylou paired with producer Daniel Lanois and reinvented her sound for her 1995 watershed album, Wrecking Ball, for which she earned another Grammy award. The album was hailed by critics as a masterpiece and portrayed a new side of Emmylou – spiritual yet sexual, and a woman with very eclectic tastes.  She followed Wrecking Ball with the live album Spyboy and closed the decade with a powerful album of duets with Linda Ronstadt, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions.

With 2000’s Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou released the first album of her career that was nearly entirely comprised of Harris-penned songs.  The album, and its follow-up, 2003’s Stumble Into Grace, revealed a remarkable songwriting talent in Emmylou Harris, and further demonstrated Harris’ diverse musical influences, mixing world music instrumentation and rock rhythms into her country and folk confidence and verve.

The wide range of Harris’ repertoire is mirrored by the musicians who have sought her out as a collaborator. She has recorded with artists from such diverse points on the musical compass as The Band, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Little Feat, Tammy Wynette, Neil Young, Bill Monroe, Lyle Lovett, Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Garth Brooks, Lucinda Williams, and George Jones. Stars such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Jon Randall and The Whites have emerged from the ranks of her bands.

Harris is invited to perform everywhere from colleges and Universities to Carnegie Hall and from the massive Bonnaroo jam-band rock festival to bluegrass events, headlining San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and making a nearly-annual visit to Telluride, Colorado for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “That just delights me,” admits Emmylou. “It proves what I’ve always thought: that people are eclectic in their tastes, just like me.”  For the most part, I think people just want to hear good music.”

Billboard magazine honored Emmylou Harris with its prestigious Century Award in 1999, aptly calling her a “truly venturesome, genre-transcending pathfinder. The Los Angeles Times praises the unfaltering quality of her work, saying, Emmylou Harris “has made consistently outstanding musical choices over her 35-plus-year career.”  But perhaps even more outstanding than her selections, is her beautifully crystalline voice, about which the New York Times says, it “inhabits her songs like a wraith, intangible but omnipresent.”

In 2007, Rhino Records celebrates Emmylou’s distinguished career with a 4-CD, 1-DVD boxed set featuring previously unreleased material, demos, studio tracks, collaborative work with other artists, and a DVD of videos and performances beginning with The Hot Band in the 1970s.  Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems releases September 18, 2007. Her forthcoming studio album will release on Nonesuch records in the spring of 2008.

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urmax	Dec 23 2009 11:56 PM Merry Christmas "Emmylou", wonderfull job on all your songs, tell me the song I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU ON YOUTUBE, where can it be purchased, Becky and I love it, thanks and keep up the great work,,,max
Debbie	Dec 23 2009 8:58 PM Merry Christmas Emmylou!
Anke Zohm	Dec 23 2009 4:23 PM May the Love, Peace and Joy of Christmas be yours always.
Go To Eleven	Dec 23 2009 3:59 PM Wow... the great Emmylou, on our friend list! Thank you so much for the add - you're amazing, one of the best voices I've ever heard. Never stop... Al... Drummer... GTE
Saby O´	Dec 23 2009 1:41 PM May lovely, happy times decorate this time of the season. May warm, special memories brighten your New Year, may the wonder of Christmas be with you (forever). Saby O'
Songwriter-Miko Rossi	Dec 23 2009 12:35 PM Hello Emmylou Harris.If you or your webmaster have time to listen my song:"Lovely smile" then I am happy man:) EMI music Finland's head of A&R Gabi Hakanen offer that song somebody,when its right time.But IF you like the song I like very much offer to your next album.I am new songwriter and my first song was number 1 in Finlands:radiosun.fi 2008.I love your voise and your music.Merry cristhmas to You and Your Family !-Miko-
Hinke	Dec 23 2009 10:50 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQr81k3TSk Merry Christmas an d Happy new year
Vreni82	Dec 23 2009 8:42 AM Thanks for the friendship. I love "Why worry", that song is so beautiful! Wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Love from Germany, Verena
Redeemed	Dec 23 2009 8:35 AM Merry Christmas, Emmylou! You have a beautiful soul! Thanks for your rich, meaningful music, which delves below the surface and pierces hearts! It is real and empathizes with others because you feel; therefore, your music has a powerful impact. May the New Year be filled with love, laughter, and joy! God bless you!
Alice Kim Jenkins Pianist/Composer	Dec 23 2009 5:59 AM Peace & blessings this holiday season to Emmylou! All the best, Alice Kim
Dreamwalker	Dec 22 2009 10:36 PM Merry Christmas to you!
Jimmy Roberts - Pedal Steel Rocks! 615-712-7131	Dec 22 2009 8:57 PM May 2010 be a better year for all of us! The very best of Holidays to you and yours from Nashville! Jimmy Roberts - Songwriter / Pedal Steel Guitarist :)
The Fabulous Felines	Dec 22 2009 8:16 PM Merry Christmas to our very beautiful and talented friend Emmylou : )
Jenny	Dec 22 2009 3:20 PM nice to meet you have a good week defow.com :)
Dreamville Music.	Dec 22 2009 2:55 PM Merr CHRISTMAS...Ms Emmylou...xoxoxoxoxo
Benita Baugh	Dec 22 2009 1:06 PM Have a wonderful Christmas and a swinging New Year.Luv Benita,(Bonnie Scotland).
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MASQUE MusicArt	Dec 22 2009 3:56 AM ¤ SEASONs GREETINGs & HAPPY HOLIDAYs ¤ MASQUE MusicArt ~ Be sure to listen to famous Holiday song " Walking in the Air " performed by MMA with voice of a 12 year old Angel ~
Seminole	Dec 22 2009 1:03 AM Christmas is soon, we call Christmas, the feast of love. We know we should love each time, even the people whose way of life we do not understand. However, we are only human and not always fair. Let us try to understand and to love, at Christmas and maybe after! I wish for Christmas to me, I am learning to understand! In the future, not people who have to call soldiers to die in order to change the history of the tower building of Babylon! All men were given intelligence in order to understand. We have feelings, to love. In this sense, I will celebrate Christmas. And I hope that all people, regardless of their race and what religion they belong, to begin the understanding which has been given to use in order to understand. Let us live in peace! I wish everyone a wonderful and peaceful Christmas! Greetings from Germany
Emy Marquez	Dec 21 2009 11:04 PM Hi EMMY!you are a legend,, Thanks for the add,your music is cool,hugs,Emy
JPT999	Dec 21 2009 10:34 PM Seasons Greetings, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - Hope 2010 is AWESOME for you!!!
Schlicht	Dec 21 2009 9:04 PM Happy Holidays EmmyLou! You are great!
Gerard Fandango	Dec 21 2009 5:54 PM Hello Emmylou:-) Thx for your beautiful music :-) Happy holidays and a great and musical 2010 ! Greetings Gerard Antwerp Begium
COMMUNA	Dec 21 2009 5:49 AM HAPPY XMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR
Norman and the Country Jammers	Dec 21 2009 4:04 AM Thanks for joining the Band-site. I hope you enjoy our music. I enjoyed checking out your site. Wish you and yours a HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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