Word: emmylou
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lonely work. A man stares out his pickup window and wonders how love could abandon him with such ease and finality. So Prine, who knows a bit about hurt--he has recently survived cancer of the neck--has called on a few good women (including Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams) to join him in no-frills, no-foolin' duets on 15 country chestnuts. The one new song is Prine's own title tune, a funny, grimy anthem for two misfits who suit each other fine. It says even driving himself to hell, he ought to be able...
Orpheum: Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris...
...this CD superproduction, Atkins is one of many guest stars, including Vince Gill, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and the unavoidable Billy Ray Cyrus. On Romeo the achy-breaky hunk emits a self-mocking libidinal growl while a female chorus ogles his beefcake and Dolly purrs, "I may not be in love/ But let me tell you,/ I'm in heat." (The Romeo video got Parton caught in a cross fire between publicity and piety. No surprise: publicity...
...sign that kiddie music has arrived is the presence of performers like Little Richard, who are more familiar on the adult circuit. Cabaret singer Michael Feinstein recorded Pure Imagination, 19 children's songs from musicals and films. Last summer, Disney released Country Music for Kids, featuring Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and the Oak Ridge Boys. However they play it, this music isn't just kid stuff anymore...
...major admirer of Minnie Pearl. Well, land's sake, this album is full of surprises. Fans might not expect this strong and graceful singer to fall about over the comic antics of the dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time, consistency. And a restlessness under the conventional constraints of country music. On Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman (Reprise), her considerable gifts are in full flourish. She can sing a Bill Monroe classic with reverence...