Artist Emmylou Harris

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Emmylou Harris

With a recording career spanning three decades, the poised, multi-talented Emmylou Harris is a veritable grand dame of American roots music. From her beginnings as a folk singer in Greenwich Village, to her fruitful partnership and turn toward country with Gram Parsons, to her more recent genre-defying collaborations with younger musicians such as Ryan Adams, Beck, and Beth Orton, Harris’ voice proves lovely and her vision compelling in almost any context. Harris has been writing her own polished songs for the past decade, penning five of the 13 tracks on 2008’s All I Intended To Be, a return to her country-folk roots (Dolly Parton and Vince Gill make cameos) that brings her ’70s/’80s collaborators back on board.

Updated 01/12/2010