Emmylou Harris Alert!

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Mooh
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 08:17 PM

Heard somewhere that EH plays a guitar built by an Ontario (Canada) guy by the name of Reid (sp?). Anyone know about this? I think I may have met this guy and played his guitar at a festival a few years ago. If that's as close as I ever get to Emmylou, it's still a privilege.

Sigh, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: GUEST,Scotguy
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 07:19 PM

She dropped into Sandy Bell's pub in Edinburgh, Scotland last Friday, shot the breeze with some of us locals and sang along in the session. And drank a pint of cider!

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Peter T.
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 04:03 PM

wow. thanks, shad. October 10. Toronto. The Music Hall. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: SDShad
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 12:52 PM

Now, tyme, if'n you'd have said "deluded," I'd surely cop to that. But ref. above: Emmy has that effect on men. She makes us goony.

But "duped?" Surely you're not suggesting that our Em has been toying with us all these years? Say it ain't so!

Oh, and for those (like me) who are waitin' to see the picture of Emmylou from the New Yorker, www.emmylou.net has a marvelous gallery of concert photos from over the years, as well as lots of bio stuff, Gram stuff, etc.

*sigh*

Shad

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Peter T.
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 10:02 AM

(Worth another trip, Joe, believe me).
As with virtually everything else, I am in total agreement with Cp. "The shadows filling up this land, are the ones I built with my own hand". Perfect line. As I have been working on open D, I went straight for this one. (can't do the 13th fret stuff alas). This song has the same quality as "Boulder to Birmingham" (a truly great song) -- she has the very rare ability to take old religious phrases and make them new, salting them with striking fresh images ("and the rock of ages I have known, is a weariness down in the bone"; "the last time I felt like this, I was in the wilderness and the canyon was on fire, and I stood on the mountain in the night and I watched it burn). It is impressive because it is so hard to do without it going really bad. Dylan (to connect threads) did it; Leonard Cohen overdid it, but made it work occasionally. This is a very elite league. It requires absolutely impeccable taste (in the artistic sense). I wonder where she got that style from -- not from Parsons, as far as I can tell.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 04:05 AM

What is your implication here, Mountain Tyme? That Emmylou won't give me the time of day?
I went to the library today and looked for the New Yorker. The September 4 issue hasn't reached California yet. Still, the previous issue had two great stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. If you haven't read singer, you're missing something.
Hmmm. I wonder if Emmylou likes Jewish authors...
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: mountain tyme
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 02:21 AM

I sure did try hard not to respond to this silly thread cause I'm not the type to flame but [IMO] you have all been duped! Been there. Nuff sed! Sorry about the bubble Joe! :)

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:06 PM

Better yet, she could have had me.
She still can, for that matter...
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:40 PM

While I was doing an audition at a club in Georgetown many years ago, Emmylou was rehearsing in another room. If you think she's gorgeous now, you should have seen her then, my boys. I couldn't even say hello, I think I smiled and I know I nodded, but I damn sure couldn't say anything. And then she sang. Surpassing beauty.

If she'd played her cards right she could have had me.

regrets, Chance

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:35 PM

TarHeel....that was exactly the right flavor. She IS all those things. Wonderful woman.

I too got hooked on Roses in the Snow which was a fantastic album. I like the way she goes back and explores the roots of several genres.

And for my money, "Prayer in Open D" is one of the best songs ever written. Not too many songs that put the blame on our lives in the right place...ourselves.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Kim C
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:25 PM

My husband brought umpteen gazillion Emmylou recordings AND Bonnie Raitt recordings to our marriage. I have got to see both of them live (not at the same time, though!), and I sold home accessories to Emmylou's mother when I worked at a furniture store several years ago. (Emmy came in with her!)

So I told Mister, if my hair goes gray, it's just goin gray, like Emmylou. Well, he said that's okay by him.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: bob schwarer
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 04:50 PM

Emmylou!!! Oh,yeah.

First time I saw her was inthe early 70's on a country music award show. They were showcasing supposed up and coming talent. Don't remember any of the rest, but they had 120 pounds of Emmylou stuffed into a 90 pound pair of jeans. Just knew she would go far.

So her live twice after that. Great shows.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Sean Belt
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 03:58 PM

Soddy, I'm pretty sure the album title was also Roses in the Snow. It's the first traditional/old-time country/bluegrass sort of album I ever really liked. It led me down the path to the wayward state I'm in today, musically speaking. *BG*

- Sean

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: SDShad
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 03:40 PM

What Joe says is true, it's true. Dear Emmylou just has that effect on us. Even a hard-bitten, miles-on-the-road type like Steve Earle gets all mushy and chivalric when Emmylou comes up. I've been hopelessly, head-over-heels in love with the girl ever since the first time I listened to her vocals on Gram Parsons' "Grievous Angel" in 1985. It's a one-sided affair, it's true, but I think my wife suspects. :-)

So, uhm, did somebody say they were gonna scan the New Yorker photo?????

Chris

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Jim Krause
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 03:18 PM

I fell in love with her when I heard an early album of hers with the track on it called Roses In the Snow. What was the title of the old LP?

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Peter T.
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 02:45 PM

I'd like to, Joe, but my scanner is unplugged at the moment because I am in mid-office shift. If I remember I will send you one when things are sorted out.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: tar_heel
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 01:49 PM

the love of my life....emmylou harris....she made an appearance in wiston-salem back in 1982,at a local dive....i was working in the western mountains of the state ,that day........drove in a down pour of cold rain for 2 1/2hours just to go see and hear her sing....took my camera....got some of the most wonderful pictures of her performing there!yes..these were the days when her hair was still long and black,,,,,,,,,that typlical folk singer look...but not typlical.....a real honest to goodness folk singer and country entertainer.she was nice enough to stop and chat with me on her way out after the concert.ahhhh yes,sweet emmylou harris.have a big 8 x 10 photo from those pictures i took,in my good memories album!!dang!has it really been over 18 years ago???

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 01:41 PM

See what this woman does to men who are otherwise decent, proper, non-chauvinistic, politically-correct folkies? She makes us all goofy.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Charlie2
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 01:36 PM

Emmy Lou is a hottie.

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Jim Krause
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 01:15 PM

Never seen her live, but OH YEAH!

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: GUEST,Michael in Swansea
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:16 AM

God, I love that woman. I've only seen her live once, that was at the Hammersmith Odeon on the Quarter Moon tour.
Memories sigh!
Michael

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 03:57 AM

Be still, my heart! That woman could cause me to get downright stupid. To have a woman who can sing so pretty and be so pretty, well, it's more than a man can handle.
I checked the New Yorker website, and they don't give any excerpts or pictures from current or past issues. Say, Peter, are you willing to scan me a pinup picture copy of the article?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 07:38 PM

I saw that one awhile back kat......really wonderful and a very different Dave Mathews.

Ah. but sweet Emmy.........She brought something different to Country and added so much. In many ways a true folksinger as she is well versed and an excellent performer of the mountain songs as well as early country. Not everyone likes that voice, but for me, there is none like it and her many associations over the years have given her a versatility almost unmatched. I never tire of hearing or seeing her.

Gotta' go get a copy of the New Yorker..........Cletus can use the rest of it for whatever..........gawd, I don't even want to think about him reading it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:35 PM

Is this what it has come to then, Peter? This idle idolatry of an unreachable nightingale?**BG**

I liked her better when her hair was long! Just enjoyed a really good Austin City Limits last Saturday night on PBS. She hosted a song circle with Buddy(?) Martin, Dave Mathews and a couple of others whose names I can't remember.

katlaughinggentlytho'

Subject: Emmylou Harris Alert!
From: Peter T.
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:56 PM

Public Service Announcement:

This week's New Yorker has a brief piece on the forthcoming Coen Brother's film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the documentary of the music from the film performed at a concert in the Ryman in Nashville. A picture accompanies this article. Included in this picture are (1) Gillian Welch; (2) John Hartford; (3) The Peasall Sisters; (4) Ralph Stanley; and

(5) Emmylou. This is the great picture of Emmylou you have all been waiting for, guys (well, the fully clothed picture, anyway). Trust me. New Yorker, issue of Sept 4, pages 68-69.

yours, Peter T.