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Singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris has recorded since 1967. Her latest album, Red Dirt Girl, earned her a 10th Grammy Award
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...After a long career primarily as an interpreter of other people's songs, Emmylou Harris took stock a few years back and decided to write an album of her own material. The result is "Red Dirt Girl," a surprisingly raw and confessional collection in which Harris chronicles a disastrous, passionate relationship, the telling of which borders on religious catharsis. Harris' pristine image gets a gritty makeover with the carnal intimations of "I Don't Wanna Talk About It Now," and elsewhere her self-revelation can be almost uncomfortably direct...
...Emmylou Harris' world is a tough place for a soft feeling. Loss, disappointment and betrayal are as common in her songs as long notes and pretty choruses; death, physical or emotional, is the fact of life. So, on her new CD, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch), a seemingly simple declaration of love--"Nobody loves you like I do"--has the twist of a curse or a threat. Or a declaration of defeat: "I love ya like a user needs a drug." Or a grudging tribute to the man who left a scar: "I will always think of you [because]/ You made...
...rights. She was big on "adventuring," climbing out of her window to shimmy down a manhole into the D.C. subway system for afterhours partying. When her friends spray-painted the names of punk bands on the tunnel walls, Karenna, ever the iconoclast, threw up names of country singers like Emmylou Harris and Kenny Rogers. One night Karenna was dancing along the tracks and headed off to stomp on the third rail. A friend pulled her back, explaining that she would be electrocuted. "I always think of that," she says. "I could have died, because I really was about...