Emmylou Harris: Songbird's Flight

Informationen zum Autor The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum collects, preserves, and interprets the evolving history and traditions of country music. Through exhibits, publications, and educational programs, the Museum teaches its diverse audiences about the enduring beauty and cultural importance of country music. Klappentext Emmylou Harris is a tradition-rich singer and songwriter who nonetheless defies convention at every turn. She builds bridges between country, folk, gospel, rock, and bluegrass, honoring and celebrating the past while retaining and sensibility that is progressive and experimental. From her harmony vocals on key 1970s sessions with Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan to her more than forty years of recording distinctive solo albums, Harris has remained one of country music's most vital and acclaimed artists. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs documenting Harris's career, this book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition Emmylou Harris: Songbird's Flight, and it contains illuminating from Harris's longtime friend and bandmate Rodney Crowell and Harris's longtime road manager Phil Kaufman, along with rare photos not included in the exhibit. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Letter from the CEO A Mystical Reverence, by Rodney Crowell Mangle with Care, by Phil Kaufman Emmylou Harris: Songbird's Flight, by Perter Cooper Bright Morning Stars Before Believing Troubles and Trials I Saw the Light Stumbling into Grace Pieces of the Sky The Hot Band Harmony Queen Blue Kentucky Girl Roses in the Snow Selected Posters Ballad of Sally Rose A Singular Trio At the Ryman Wrecking Ball New Buddy, O Brother Song Scavenger Cup of Kindness An Ongoing Flight Suggested Listening Memorable Performances on Other Artists' Recordings On the Cover, Tom Wilkes

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Emmylou Harris is a tradition-rich singer and songwriter who nonetheless defies convention at every turn. She builds bridges between country, folk, gospel, rock, and bluegrass, honoring and celebrating the past while retaining and sensibility that is progressive and experimental. From her harmony vocals on key 1970s sessions with Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan to her more than forty years of recording distinctive solo albums, Harris has remained one of country music’s most vital and acclaimed artists. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs documenting Harris’s career, this book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight, and it contains illuminating from Harris’s longtime friend and bandmate Rodney Crowell and Harris’s longtime road manager Phil Kaufman, along with rare photos not included in the exhibit.

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Acknowledgements
Letter from the CEO
A Mystical Reverence, by Rodney Crowell
Mangle with Care, by Phil Kaufman
Emmylou Harris: Songbird's Flight, by Perter Cooper

• Bright Morning Stars
• Before Believing
• Troubles and Trials
• I Saw the Light
• Stumbling into Grace
• Pieces of the Sky
• The Hot Band
• Harmony Queen
• Blue Kentucky Girl
• Roses in the Snow
• Selected Posters
• Ballad of Sally Rose
• A Singular Trio
• At the Ryman
• Wrecking Ball
• New Buddy, O Brother
• Song Scavenger
• Cup of Kindness
• An Ongoing Flight Suggested Listening
  Memorable Performances on Other Artists' Recordings
  On the Cover, Tom Wilkes