Emmylou Harris

Genres:	Country & Bluegrass • Documentaries • Drama • Folk • Holiday & Seasonal • Music Magazines • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • World Music
Descriptive "tags":	country • female vocalists • singer-songwriter • folk • alt-country • americana
Decades Active:	1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Artist Compilations:	Emmylou Harris & Willie Nelson
Links online:	BBC Music • Fan Page • IMDb • MySpace • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

2 April 1947, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Harris was raised in North Carolina, later attending the University Of North Carolina on a drama scholarship. Starting as a folk singer, Harris tried her luck in the late 60s in New York’s Greenwich Village folk clubs, making an album for the independent Jubilee label in 1970. Gliding Bird was largely unrepresentative of her subsequent often stunning work. It included cover versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Fred Neil and Hank Williams, as well as somewhat mundane originals and a title track written by her first husband, Tom Slocum. Harris left for Nashville, but with the failure of her marriage and the birth of her first child was forced to return to her parents’ house outside Washington, DC. Rick Roberts, a latter-day member of the Flying Burrito Brothers, heard her singing in a club, and recommended her to Gram Parsons, who was looking for a female partner. Parsons hired Harris after discovering that their voices...

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