tiler
(Milw.Wi.US) | | Posted: May 05, 2013 - 22:42 | |
when your good your good.
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MsJudi
(Houston, TX) | | Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 07:26 | |
"Coulda' been the whiskey,
Coulda been the pills,
Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill."
Love it.
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grant
| | Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 07:26 | |
I thought that Knopfler guitar might have been Mr Lanois - sounds like it's right off his "For the Beauty of Wynona" CD . . .
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Xeric
(Montana) | | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 15:31 | |
Holy carp that's good stuff.
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walkerpub
(Windsor, Ontario, Canada) | | Posted: Dec 31, 2012 - 15:28 | |
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jyoull
(Cambridge, MA) | | Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 11:00 | |
Just... wow. This is devastatingly beautiful.
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cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.) | | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 12:39 | |
Cynaera wrote:I can't remember a time when I didn't love Emmylou Harris's music. She's a goddess. A goddess with brains, a voice, and a sense of graciousness that puts her head and shoulders above most "stars." I think I might have a girl-crush on her...  Godspeed, Ann. |
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RedTopFireBelow
(Jersey shore, USA) | | Posted: May 25, 2012 - 05:34 | |
This song always makes me tear up. It reminds me how fortunate I am in life and how some people never get the chance to be who they dream to be. (OK.. I once dreamed I'd be a rock star and in my car, I am...lol)
Thanks Emmylou, for keeping me in check with this heartfelt tune...
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gschoep
(Bozeman, MT) | | Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 12:01 | |
Did she confuse Mississippi with Alabama? Meridian is close to the border but definitely in Mississippi...
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DeeCee1109
(People's Republic of A2) | | Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 11:59 | |
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TerryS
(Another SW) | | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 18:58 | |
Sjaaks wrote:Saw Emmylou perform this one together with Mark Knopfler in 2006 in Ahoy Rotterdam.
 
Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL performance, especially with the addition of Knopfler's phenomenal guitar work, perfectly suited for a song like this... I still feel the goosebumps running up and down... A truely magical night that was... Lucky lucky you! |
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onelittlemoose
(Mooseville, Canada) | | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 18:42 | |
Just what I needed right now, thanks.
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 07:31 | |
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 07:16 | |
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hallogallo
(Raleigh, NC) | | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 18:28 | |
In my top-ten all time.
Coulda' been the whiskey,
Coulda been the pills,
Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill.
But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
About the life and the death of a red dirt girl
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ThirdRail_33
(Beautiful Bonita Springs in Sunny Florida) | | Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 18:22 | |
Cynaera wrote:I can't remember a time when I didn't love Emmylou Harris's music. She's a goddess. A goddess with brains, a voice, and a sense of graciousness that puts her head and shoulders above most "stars." I think I might have a girl-crush on her... Amen. Love. Love. Love Emmylou. |
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Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands) | | Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 00:43 | |
Saw Emmylou perform this one together with Mark Knopfler in 2006 in Ahoy Rotterdam.
Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL performance, especially with the addition of Knopfler's phenomenal guitar work, perfectly suited for a song like this... I still feel the goosebumps running up and down... A truely magical night that was... |
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bokey
(Left of Centerfield) | | Posted: Jun 12, 2011 - 08:49 | |
This was a hard album to get for awhile,it was import only for some reason.
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Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal) | | Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 15:36 | |
I can't remember a time when I didn't love Emmylou Harris's music. She's a goddess. A goddess with brains, a voice, and a sense of graciousness that puts her head and shoulders above most "stars." I think I might have a girl-crush on her... |
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Feb 24, 2011 - 21:47 | |
 Emmylou Harris by Nicole Rorkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolerork/Interview with Emmylou Harris in the Fine Arts Center. Emmylou Harris has been hailed as a major figure in several of America's most important musical movements of the past three decades. Harris' contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years she also has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own. Her Grammy-winning 1995 Wrecking Ball was a watershed album for her, combining several world-music elements with acoustic instruments, driving percussion, and a folk/roots flavor. Between 2000 and the present, she has appeared on the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack and its spin-off Down From the Mountain tour; collaborated with the Chieftains on their Down the Old Plank Road album and TV special; performed concerts on behalf of a Landmine Free World; and sang with Bright Eyes, Dave Matthews, Bill Mallonee, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Bruce Cockburn, Neil Young, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman, the Dixie Chicks, and Patty Griffin, among others. Emmylou Harris is invited to perform everywhere from the massive Bonnaroo jam-band rock festival to bluegrass concerts: "That just delights me," she admits. "It proves what I've always thought: that people are eclectic in their tastes, just like me. Most people don't listen to only one kind of music. For the most part, I think people just want to hear good music." That is a credo she has lived by throughout her career. Harris took up guitar as a teenager inspired by the folk music of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins and Peter, Paul and Mary. Starving-artist stints in Greenwich Village and Nashville led to regular club work in Washington D.C. Country-rock visionary Gram Parsons discovered her there and brought her to Los Angeles to become his duet partner in 1972. After apprenticing Parsons, she emerged as a solo artist with Pieces of the Sky in 1975. The album electrified the country-music world, becoming the first of her eight consecutive gold or platinum records. Today, Emmylou Harris is regarded as a key figure in a 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. Billboard magazine honored Emmylou Harris with its prestigious Century Award in 1999. At the time, she was lauded as a "truly venturesome, genre-transcending pathfinder" who being given the award "to acknowledge the uncommon excellence of (her) still-unfolding body of work."  All rights reserved |
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Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2010 - 10:02 | |
jagdriver wrote:The cranky guitar in the background is what makes this track, kinda like Gerry Leonard's work with Jonatha Brooke...
My thought exactly, nice post. In an interview, Emmylou said she wrote this song to evoke the hopelessness (for some) of small town Delta farm/factory life with no clear way out, but that it wasn't from a particular incident in her own life. Pretty much a Bruce Springsteen or Boris Pasternak libretto, from a time and place that views this universal theme through a different lens.
I can understand not liking her voice or this style of music, but posters suggesting that there is anything unskilled about the production and performance or less than intellectually complex in the writing are either trolling or woefully incomplete in their own education and experience. |
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rspauldi
| | Posted: Dec 05, 2010 - 09:46 | |
I always get a little misty at the white-girl soul element in her voice.....
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lily34
(lexvegas) | | Posted: Nov 03, 2010 - 17:05 | |
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prickelpit96
(Where the grass is green and the ball is round, meet me in the stand behind the goal.) | | Posted: Sep 01, 2010 - 02:14 | |
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calypsus_1
| | Posted: Jul 08, 2010 - 21:48 | |
Red Dirt Girl from Emmylou's concert with Mark Knopfler in Ahoy, Rotterdam in 2006. |
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calypsus_1
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Randomax
(Wimberley, TX) | | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 09:22 | |
Feghoot wrote:Beautiful women but limited range & limited talent. If she wasn't attractive you'd never have heard of her. And actually I do know something about her: She recognizes & supports real talent while simultaneously insinuating herself into their music/lives to keep herself in public view. Dolly Parton she ain't!
As with all aging artists, Emmylou's voice has, in recent years, succumbed to the dreaded "change". True, she does not have the range or the vocal cord control she once had but to make this statement (rather sexist too) is rediculous. Again, as with so many aging artists, did you ever listen to her early stuff? DId you ever read about her earlier life, her years working with Gram Parsons, etc....she does not need to insinuate herself into ANY crowd....her merits stand on their own, attractive or not! Check this out....wow, how could she possibly know anyone in the music business with these shabby credits? -)! (and thank GOD she is no Dolly Parton — apples and oranges my friend) Grammy Awards 2005 Best Female Country Vocal Performance ("The Connection") 2001 Album of the Year (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) 2000 Best Contemporary Folk Album (Red Dirt Girl) 1999 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals ("After The Gold Rush", with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals ("Same Old Train", with Alison Krauss, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Scruggs, Joe Diffie, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs & Travis Tritt) 1995 Best Contemporary Folk Album (Wrecking Ball) 1992 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers At the Ryman, as Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers) 1987 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Trio, with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) 1984 Best Country Vocal Performance, Female ("In My Dreams") 1980 Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("That Lovin' You Feelin' Again", with Roy Orbison) 1979 Best Country Vocal Performance, Female (Blue Kentucky Girl) 1976 Best Country Vocal Performance, Female (Elite Hotel)<8> |
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cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.) | | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 09:16 | |
LaurentianD wrote:I appreciate her voice and her pedigree.
But.
Roseanne Cash was never a red dirt girl.
Silver spooner with the gold cup.
Bah.
Um, what? 1) I don't what Ms. Cash has to do with this. 2) Roseanne Cash was not born wealthy. Her father was an Army radio operator, remember? Sure he went on to change the face of music forever, but she was no 'silver spooner'. And she's had a decent career of her own: comparing her to her father, or to Ms. Harris for that matter, is not fair. Those two are larger-than-life talents who defy all comparisons. |
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fingerpin
(OhiO) | | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 09:11 | |
Gut wrenching lyrics. Beautiful song.
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cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.) | | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 09:10 | |
KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
Cosmic America Music, Americana, Y'Alternative.
It's music the country stations won't play because it's to rock.
It's music the rock stations won't play because it's to country.
That's why I like it.
Dig. |
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