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With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America’s most important musical movements of the past three decades. A steadfast supporter of roots music and a skilled interpreter of compelling songs, she also has been associated with a diverse and dazzling array of admiring collaborators from Bright Eyes to Tammy Wynette and from Neil Young to Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

Harris took up guitar as a teenager inspired by the folk music of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Judy Collins. Starving-artist stints in New York City and Nashville led to regular club work in Washington D.C. where Chris Hillman first saw Emmylou perform. Hillman and country-rock visionary Gram Parsons had been band mates in The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, but now Gram was on his own doing solo material, and had told his former band mate he was looking for “a chick singer” for his first solo record.

 

“I lucked into this whole thing,” she comments. “One little millimeter would have made the difference. If my babysitter hadn’t been at that Flying Burrito Brothers concert and given Gram my phone number, if Gram hadn’t come into my life, who knows what would have become of me?”

Billboard magazine honored Emmylou Harris with its prestigious Century Award in 1999, aptly calling her a “truly venturesome, genre-transcending pathfinder.” The Los Angeles Times praises the unfaltering quality of her work, saying, Emmylou Harris “has made consistently outstanding musical choices over her 35-plus-year career.” But perhaps even more outstanding than her selections, is her beautifully crystalline voice, about which the New York Times says, it “inhabits her songs like a wraith, intangible but omnipresent.”

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