age of emmylou harris
July 25 2014, 4:26pm, The Sunday Times. Listen to Emmylou Harris. Your first thought on meeting Emmylou Harris is that if this is what 30-odd years on the road fronting country-rock bands does for you, maybe we should all try it. Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trivia (10) | Personal Quotes (18) Emmylou Harris was born on April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was previously married to Paul Kennerley, Brian Ahern and Tom Slocum. Biography by Jason Ankeny. The one-time singing partner of Gram Parsons who became an enduring force in progressive country by the end of the 1970s. Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny. Though other performers sold more records and earned greater fame, few had as profound an impact on contemporary music as Emmylou Harris. The ballad of Emmylou Harris. At 61, Emmylou Harris is still the drop-dead-gorgeous queen of country rock. Your first thought on meeting Emmylou Harris is that if this is what 30-odd years on the road fronting country-rock bands does for you, maybe we should all try it. At the age of 64, Emmylou Harris has made an album as fresh and distinctive as any in her catalog, and Hard Bargain is a reminder that her evolution into a songwriter is one of the most pleasant surprises in a career that's produced rewarding music for nearly 40 years. Harris wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 13 songs on 2011's Hard Bargain, and the album is full of cleanly drawn stories of people struggling to rise to the challenges of life, ranging from characters who are homeless (Home Sweet Home) or wrestling with the aftermath of tragedy (New Orleans) to Harris' own memories of touring with Parsons (The Road ... Emmylou Harris dropped out of college in North Carolina to become a folk singer in Greenwich Village in the '60s. She crossed over into country music in her duet work singing with Gram Parsons in the early '70s, and merged country with rock in the mid-'70s with her lustrous, down-home singing style. Nevertheless, Harris hewed closely to her country roots throughout the '80s, racking up country Grammy after Grammy. On the 1987 album Trio, she teamed up with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt to sing a roster of country laments; the three posed against a corral fence on the cover. While performing in a Washington D.C. coffeehouse, she was discovered by former Byrds member Chris Hillman, who recommended her to Gram Parsons for his first solo album, 'GP'. Harris toured as a member of Parsons' band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, in 1973, and recorded on their album 'Grievous Angel'. After she first came to the attention of discerning music fans with her contributions to Gram Parsons' first solo album in 1973, Emmylou Harris spent over 20 years as one of the finest interpretive singers in American music, approaching material from a variety of composers with a thoughtful intelligence that matched the natural beauty of her voice. Harris was born on April 2, 1947, to a military family stationed in Birmingham, Alabama. After spending much of her childhood in North Carolina, she moved to Woodbridge, Virginia while in her teens and graduated high school there as class valedictorian.
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