![]() One of her worst, 2011's underwhelming, mostly Emmylou-penned Hard Bargain, is salvaged by her collaboration with indie folk band The Low Anthem on their song "To Ohio." The original version of the tune is great too, but as soon as you hear the ache in Harris's voice when she sings, "Left Louisiana on the rail line," you know that this song and her were meant to be together.Īfter that, I was hoping that Harris would do a whole album of indie folk. One of her best albums, 1980's Roses in the Snow, is energized by her engagement with new traditionalists like Ricky Skaggs, whose dark, surging duet on "Green Pastures" is a highlight of both of their careers-or of anyone's career, for that matter. But in general her enthusiasm for finding new artists to work with has been a huge boon for her music. And I have to admit my deep distaste for "Sultans of Swing" has made me afraid to really engage with her 2006 album with Mark Knopfler. Her work with Daniel Lanois sometimes sounds more bloated than sweeping. Not every one of Harris's collaboration has been a total success. And she worked with distinctive producers, such as Brian Ahern (to whom she was married for a time) and, somewhat startlingly, Daniel Lanois, whose big, echoey, New Age soundscapes re-energized her career on 1995's Wrecking Ball. She recorded with other singers-most famously on her massively successful 1989 Trio album with Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton. She was known for championing young songwriters, like Rodney Crowell, who also joined her band. The Long, Complicated History of Mamas in Country Musicīut even after she started recording albums in her own right, her solo career was never precisely solo. Her first famous recordings were as Gram Parson's protégé and collaborator, lending her pure harmony to his wasted hippie warble on 1974's Grievous Angel. She's pretty much always sharing someone else's vision, or asking someone else to share hers. A Vision Shared is, after all, a big part of what her career has been about. Still, there's something right about it as an introduction to her work. "Hobo's Lullaby" isn't one of Harris's radio hits, and it's not a song she's especially associated with. As I said, it was the first time I'd heard her voice, and I never forgot it. But Harris's effort still stood out, as she turned Guthrie's ode to life on the rails into a sweet keening, as much elegy as lullaby. ![]() There are lots of great performances on the album: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska-esque "I Ain't Got No Home" and Brian Wilson's Phil-Spector-worthy treatment of "Goodnight Irene" for example. But in the end, CLINT gave us the cleanest.The first Emmylou Harris song I heard was " Hobo's Lullaby." It was a track off of Folkways: A Vision Shared, a collection of cover versions of songs associated with Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. Loren created a nice new grid with CHEST in the middle. We had five entries, some starting with the bra type, some ending, so in order to get a cleaner fill, we decided four would be the new five, and we would start all the theme phrases with types of bras. This took 3 1/2 years to "develop"! It was quickly accepted 3 years ago but sat on for who knows why! By the time it was ready to publish, we were told the fill would no longer fly. It's cheeky, but I hope solvers will be good sports as Will continues to allow the Gray Lady to, well, to bust out of her more traditional confines of propriety and decorum.ĪCME: I was impressed with Loren's unbridled enthusiasm and hysterical anecdotes on "another" blog and thought she'd make a fantastic constructrix, if given a bit of a nudge. We racked our brains coming up with kinds of bras - training, halter, Wonder, support, plunge - until we settled on this group. My thought on its execution was utterly pedestrian Andrea is the one who suggested going the disguise-the-bra-type-in-another-phrase idea. ![]() So then I thought it'd be a cool revealer. I've been maintaining for years that BOOBY TRAPS would be a fun name for a bra store. It occurred to me that I could take some wordplay I'd been joking around with for years before constructing and translate them into themes. ![]() We started working on various ideas - man, she's a bundle of energy and enthusiasm! And patience. LOREN: A couple of years ago, Andrea emailed me, telling me I should consider trying to construct. ![]()
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