She was born in 1947. The phrase ‘forever young’ would seem like an insult to such an ageless lady, so I’ll just hope that we’ll be lucky enough to have her for many years yet!
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Adam L Silverman
Will there be cake?
Omnes Omnibus
I saw her in concert with Elvis Costello about 15 years ago. Awesome show.
Comrade Scrutinizer
Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt duets: nothing better.
dexwood
Emmylou. My first date with my wife, still (thank you, Toots), was to see Emmylou at the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe, August, 1974. So many great shows we saw there over the decades before it was shut down.
Nighty night, Balloon Juice.
B.B.A.
It’s an open thread and I have a brother on the spectrum (and I’m close to it), so:
PhoenixRising
@dexwood: We saw her at the Lensic with Guy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Rodney Crowell. What a show.
Recently Rosanne Cash gave an interview in which she explained that she wrote songs for a long time before realizing that she was allowed to sing them, in public, even though she was never going to have pipes like Emmylou. Emmylou did a project with Linda Ronstadt, recording Rosanne’s song (‘Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions’) that you all want if you don’t have.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Of course.
dexwood
@PhoenixRising:
Linda. I’m so old, I saw her at UMBC, outside of Baltimore, 1973, when the Eagles, fuck the Eagles, backed her. I have a story about a fantastic dog who adored Linda’s music, sang along with her and no one else when her albums hit the turntable. Best dog ever. But, really, goodnight.
Mr Stagger Lee
She sold out the concert at Skagit Casino a year ago, why the Emerald Queen doesn’t book her is a shame
Major Major Major Major
CarolPW
Emmylou is also the founder of Bonaparte’s Retreat, a dog rescue facility. Apparently many of the musicians in Nashville (as well as lots of other residents) have one of her dogs.
Aleta
Rose of Cimarron
Spanish Is A Loving Tongue
Born To Run
The Price You Pay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOs5-WKZyHU
Ohio Mom
@B.B.A.: As the mom of a spectrumite, LOL.
Ohio Son was never into trains but I know several others who were/are, as well as a fellow extremely interested in airports.
Amir Khalid
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
Except maybe Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton.
Ohio Mom
@B.B.A.: I followed that link, it’s an interesting twitter, particularly the tweets on an academic research project on what happened to the sons of slaveholders who lost all their wealth (slaves and more) after the Civil War.
The sons did not stay poor despite the family ruin, they rebounded because they still had privilege. The unofficial US caste system is robust.
debbie
How about one with Gram Parsons?
Suzanne
I adore Emmylou. The album that she did with Mark Knopfler is one of my all-time favorites.
Emmylou is ageless. Mark Knopfler is not. LOL.
piratedan
i always thought her cover of Blue Kentucky Girl by Loretta Lynn kind of set the bar for “yearning”
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: that’s awesome
@PhoenixRising: that’s even more awesome
Aleta
@debbie: wow. thanks.
eemom
@debbie:
LOVE that.
Also 2:
Red Dirt Girl
Going Back to Harlan
eemom
….and there won’t be a mention in the news of the world
about the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
who never got any farther across the line than Meridian
And the stars still fall on Alabama
the night she finally laid that hammer down
without a sound
in the red dirt ground
?
Mart
@Amir Khalid: Great minds think alike, although my mind may be a bit older… Harris, Parton, Ronstadt 1976, “The Sweetest Gift”
NotMax
Really? Six videos? I have a relatively fast internet connection and even so this page takes more than three times as long to fully load when compared to a regular page here. For folks with slower connections page loading must be seriously retarded.
debbie
@eemom:
I’m far from religious, but her version of Every Grain of Sand almost makes me wish I could be.
Barbara
Emmylou Harris was born in Alabama but was a military brat who spent a lot of her childhood, including high school, in what are now the exurbs of Washington DC. I believe she was performing around DC when she was introduced to Gram Parsons. She was a favorite when I was in college, and somewhere I still have one of her early LPs.
Mart
@debbie: I forgot about Wrecking Ball. Checked and I have not uploaded. Now I need to go through the stacks of CD’s to locate and burn. Damn you. Thanks.
Mart
@Mart: Whoops, did not notice already on the front page…
eemom
@debbie:
Same here with All My Tears.
divF
I first saw her perform at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos in 1976, as the opening act for Willie Nelson. Joan Baez came up and sang a duet with her as part of Emmylou’s encore.
Whenever I listen to “Boulder to Birmingham” and hear the lyrics “the sound Of the trucks as they move down Out on 95” I see in my mind the grade on I-95 as it passes through Woodbridge, VA (where she was the valedictorian of her high school graduating class).
laura
Hardly, strictly bluegrass, 1st weekend in October. Golden Gate Park, 5 stages, 3 days. Free. Emmylou is always the final artist on the largest stage to close the festival Sunday evening. Close to heaven.