Emmylou Harris

[Freypower]

You know I don't want to get on my soapbox here, but it's interesting to compare Roadrunning with the much vaunted Raising Sand by Plant/Krauss. Roadrunning is a true duets album; Sand features some tracks with either Plant or Krauss singing entirely by themselves (for example Plant sings Fortune Teller; Krauss sings Trampled Rose). Roadrunning may not have won any Grammys but it's perhaps a bit more 'authentic'.

[Brooke]

I would be interested to know what you thought of All The Roadrunning if you found it, Brooke.

I really like it. I'll have to dig it out again, though, cause it's been a while, to comment on each song. Since Survivor is over I can now listen to something else.

I've been wanting to get Sand, since I've heard so much about it. So many artists, so little time and money!

[whitcap]

Emmylou's new single, The Road, is available now on [ame]http://www.amazon.com/The-Road/dp/B004SE6GXY/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1301953652&sr=1-27[/ame]. (The song is about Gram. Its beautiful. I can't wait for this album!)

Her new album, Hard Bargain, comes out on the 26th.

[whitcap]

Emmylou's new CD comes out on Tuesday

This is the lead off single The Road:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyUGPzBFzAM[/ame]

[sodascouts]

Cool! And Emmylou looks so beautiful in your avatar!

[Brooke]

Yes she does. How do you make gray hair look so good?!

Love her!

[tequila girl]

I was just checkin' out "Hard Bargain" on Amazon, listening to a couple of tracks..when Charlie (parrot) says......."what's that?" It caught his attention anyway ..........

eta...I'd originally gone there to check out "Feed The Fire" and got sidetracked.....you know - the way you do!

[Troubadour]

Here is a fantastic new interview with Emmylou from The A.V. Club:

"It's all people that you've met and experiences in your life that determine what comes out of your mouth and out of your heart."

[Brooke]

I would be interested to know what you thought of All The Roadrunning if you found it, Brooke.

Hey! Sorry I took so long getting back to you on this! I really love their voices together, but I'm surprised to hear MK do such country sounding stuff. Of course, everyone likes to try different things, so why not?

My favorite two songs on the album are Love & Happiness and Beyond My Wildest Dreams. I really don't care for Red Staggerwing. Way too country & western for me. All the rest are definite likes!

How about you?

[Freypower]

Hey! Sorry I took so long getting back to you on this! I really love their voices together, but I'm surprised to hear MK do such country sounding stuff. Of course, everyone likes to try different things, so why not?

My favorite two songs on the album are Love & Happiness and Beyond My Wildest Dreams. I really don't care for Red Staggerwing. Way too country & western for me. All the rest are definite likes!

How about you?

I'm so glad you like BMWD. That has become something of a theme song for me in the last month. I wonder if you can guess why? I have even made a signature using the phrase.

My own favourite tracks are the title track & Donkey Town, also If This Is Goodbye & Beachcombing. I suppose Red Staggerwing is a bit corny. I do like the way he talks about red Fenders & Vincent Red Rapides (guitars & bikes he likes).

I understand you're surprised by MK doing country sounding stuff but he has flirted with the genre off & on throughout his solo career (and even the Dire Straits song How Long has a country feel). The album which perhaps best represents this is The Ragpicker's Dream.