Emmylou Harris - Wikipedia. Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1.

American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and she has won 1. Grammys as well as numerous other awards, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer- songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous leading artists, including Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Don Williams, Roy Orbison, The Band, Patty Griffin, Mark Knopfler, Albert Lee, Delbert Mc.

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Clinton, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Bright Eyes, Rodney Crowell, John Prine, Neil Young, Steve Earle, Garrison Keillor, and Ryan Adams. Biography[edit]Early years[edit]Harris is from a career military family. Her father, Walter Harris (1.

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Marine Corps officer, and her mother, Eugenia (1. Her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar- Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. She won a drama scholarship to the UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she began to study music seriously, learning to play the songs of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar.

She dropped out of college to pursue her musical aspirations, and moved to New York City, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Villagecoffeehouses during the 1. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1. Gliding Bird. Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in Clarksville, Maryland, a suburb near Washington, D. C.[3][4][5]With Gram Parsons[edit]Harris soon returned to performing as part of a trio with Gerry Mule and Tom Guidera. In 1. 97. 1, members of the country rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers saw her perform; former Byrds member Chris Hillman had taken over the band after the departure of founder Gram Parsons, was impressed by Harris, and briefly considered asking her to join the Flying Burrito Brothers. Instead, Hillman recommended her to Parsons, who was looking for a female vocalist to collaborate with on his first solo album, GP.

Harris toured as a member of Parsons's band, the Fallen Angels, in 1. Later that year, Parsons and Harris worked on a studio album, Grievous Angel. Watch A Walk To Remember Online Facebook. Parsons died in his motel room near what is now Joshua Tree National Park on September 1. Parsons's Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1.

Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights, in 1. One more album of recorded material from that period was packaged as Live 1. The Hot Band[edit]Warner Brothers A& R representative Mary Martin introduced Harris to Canadian producer Brian Ahern, who produced her major label debut album, Pieces of the Sky, released in 1. Reprise Records. The album was surprisingly eclectic, especially by Nashville standards, including cover versions of the Beatles' "For No One", Merle Haggard's "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" and the Louvin Brothers' "If I Could Only Win Your Love". It also featured "Bluebird Wine", a composition by a young Texas songwriter, Rodney Crowell, who was the first in a long line of songwriters whose talents Harris has championed. The record was one of the most expensive country records produced at the time, featuring the talents of James Burton, Glen Hardin, Ron Tutt, Ray Pohlman, and Bill Payne, as well as two tracks ("Before Believing" and "Queen of the Silver Dollar") that were cut with the Angel Band.

Two singles were released: "Too Far Gone", which initially charted at No. 7. No. 1. 3), and Harris's first big hit, "If I Could Only Win Your Love", a duet with Herb Pedersen (later a founding member of the Desert Rose Band), which peaked at No. 4. Executives of Warner Bros.

Records (Reprise Records's parent company) told Harris they would agree to record her if she would "get a hot band". Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had played with Elvis Presley as well as Parsons. Burton was a renowned guitarist, starting in Ricky Nelson's band in the 1. Hardin had been a member of the Crickets.

Other Hot Band members were drummer John Ware, pedal steel guitarist Hank De. Vito, and bassist Emory Gordy, Jr., with whom Harris had worked while performing with Parsons.

Singer- songwriter Crowell was enlisted as a rhythm guitarist and duet partner.[6] Harris's first tour schedule originally dovetailed around Presley's, owing to Burton and Hardin's continuing commitments to Presley's band. The Hot Band lived up to its name, with most of the members moving on with fresh talent replacing them as they continued on to solo careers of their own. Elite Hotel, released in December 1. Pieces of the Sky was well- founded.

Unusual for country albums at the time, which largely revolved around a hit single, Harris's albums borrowed their approach from the album- oriented rock market. In terms of quality and artistic merit, tracks like "Sin City", "Wheels", and "Till I Gain Control Again", which weren't singles, easily stood against tracks like "Together Again", "Sweet Dreams", and "One of These Days", which were. Elite Hotel was a No. 1 country album and also did sufficiently well as a crossover success with the rock audience. Harris appealed to those who normally disapproved of the country market's pull toward crossover pop singles ("Together Again" and "Sweet Dreams" both topped the country charts). Elite Hotel won a Grammy in 1.

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female. Harris's reputation for guest work continued.

She contributed to albums by Linda Ronstadt, Guy Clark and Neil Young, and she was tapped by Bob Dylan to perform on his Desire album. Harris also filmed one of the studio sequences, owing to her touring schedule, in the Band's The Last Waltz, singing "Evangeline".

Burton left the Hot Band in 1. Elvis Presley's band, and was replaced by English guitarist Albert Lee. Harris's commercial apex was Luxury Liner, released in 1. On Luxury Liner, Harris's mix of songs from Chuck Berry ("(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie"), Gram Parsons (the title track and "She"), the Carter Family ("Hello Stranger") and Kitty Wells ("Making Believe") illustrate a continuity and artistic merit to country music often overlooked at the time. Watch The Dark Sleep Putlocker. Even so, many fans expected more original tunes, so she became known as a cover artist. Despite Top Ten singles with "C'est la Vie" and "Making Believe", the album's best- known track is the first recorded cover of Townes Van Zandt's classic "Pancho & Lefty", which would be a No. 1 hit for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in 1.

At the end of 1. 97. Crowell left the Hot Band to pursue a solo career; his replacement was bluegrass multi- instrumentalist and singer Ricky Skaggs.

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town signaled a slight change of direction from Harris's previous three albums. Rather than mixing classic and contemporary, the album is made up largely of recently written songs, though from a wide variety of writers. Two More Bottles of Wine", written by Delbert Mc. Clinton, became Harris's third No. 1 single; "To Daddy", written by Dolly Parton, went to No. 3; and a third single, "Easy from Now On", went Top Twenty. The album included two songs by Crowell ("I Ain't Living Long Like This" and "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"), two by songwriter Jesse Winchester ("Defying Gravity" and "My Songbird"), and one by Utah Phillips ("Green Rolling Hills"). The Roots records[edit]In January 1. Harris married Brian Ahern.[3] Their (Harris' second and also Ahern's second) daughter, Meghann, was born in 1.