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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass opens with emotional Emmylou Harris tribute, with ‘one amazing headliner after another’
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Strauss, Contributor
At the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Emmylou Harris tribute, hardcore Texas troubadour Steve Earle recalled going to see country rock pioneer Gram Parsons in the early 1970s.
“There was this girl singing with him, and I’ve been in love ever since like everyone else,” Earle said.
Many such folk, from Bonnie Raitt to Patty Griffin, who made up the 14 featured performers bill were there to sing, play and express their adoration for the angel-voiced soprano at the Masonic Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 2.....
EMMYLOU HARRIS TO RELEASE SPYBOY REISSUE NOVEMBER 7, 2025 VIA NEW WEST RECORDS FEATURING BUDDY MILLER, BRADY BLADE, AND DARYL JOHNSON INCLUDES 5 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDINGS...
Emmylou Harris will release Spyboy on November 7, 2025 via New West Records. The 19-track live album was produced by Buddy Miller and Emmylou Harris and features Miller on guitar and vocals, Brady Blade on drums, percussion, and vocals, and Daryl Johnson on bass, djembe, percussion, and vocals as well. Originally issued on compact disc by Eminent Records in 1998, the 2025 edition of Spyboy features 5 previously unreleased recordings of the band performing Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' “A Thing About You,” Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand,” Bill Monroe’s “Get Up John,” Lucinda Williams’ “Sweet Old World,” as well as the Harris and Kate & Anna McGarrigle co-write “All I Left Behind.” It also features updated artwork as well as new and updated liner notes written by Harris and Miller. A limited pressing of Spyboy was made available in celebration of Record Store Day in May and quickly sold out.
20th anniversary of Emmylou Harris’s album Stumble Into Grace comes to its first-ever vinyl release
To mark the 20th anniversary of Emmylou Harris’s album Stumble Into Grace comes its first-ever vinyl release...
To mark the 20th anniversary of Emmylou Harris’s album Stumble Into Grace comes its first-ever vinyl release, in a limited cream-colored vinyl edition. On this, her second album of original material, following her Nonesuch debut album, Red Dirt Girl, Harris is joined by guests like Linda Ronstadt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Gillian Welch, Jane Siberry, Buddy Miller, Daniel Lanois, and Malcolm Burn, who produced the record. Newsweek declared: “Her stellar voice takes on new depth when tied to songs this personal.”
20th anniversary of Emmylou Harris’s album Stumble Into Grace comes to its first-ever vinyl release
Emmylou Harris sees her latest album as "one of those pleasant little surprises from the universe" — a live recording of her first performance on a Nashville stage with the acoustic bluegrass supergroup she'd just assembled, the Nash Ramblers.
"We didn't know it existed," she says of the recording, captured at a 1990 concert at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and released three decades later as "Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert."
Emmylou Harris’s teenage obsessions: ‘The Beatles parted the clouds after JFK’s assassination’
The country singer, 74, recalls the inspirational power of Joan Baez and American folk – and the lessons dogs can teach us
Thu 26 Aug 2021 11.00 EDT
Music Americana, the Folk Music of America
Just after I started high school, there was the Cuban missile crisis, so I wasn’t sure if the world was going to be around much longer. It was a very intense, frightening 13 days, then suddenly it was over and I got into the more mundane problems of being a teenager. I wanted to act, was in plays at school and would read the plays of Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee. The weirder the better. I didn’t have an outlet for music then. I’d hated piano lessons. I listened to the usual teenage fare like Frankie Avalon or Bobby Rydell, but the folk music explosion changed everything. My older brother owned a record player and would play old-time country and bluegrass. Nothing did anything for me except Johnny Cash’s first record, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! Then suddenly there was Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie. I cherished Dick Cerri’s radio show Music Americana, the Folk Music of America. Every night, he’d play the new folk artists I was just becoming aware of and I would sit on my little bedroom floor doing my homework, listening in awe.
Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' 'Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert is now available on Nonesuch Records
Emmylou Harris: 'The only thing I knew how to do was sing, I had no choice'
Emmylou Harris looks back on her career in country music, collaborating with Dolly Parton and the importance of family.
Country Music Hall of Famer Emmylou Harris has released dozens of albums in her five-decades-long career. She’s collaborated with Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson and has won 14 Grammys.
Here, in her Letter to My Younger Self, she says she’s grateful to Parsons for giving her her voice – but the most perfect day she’s ever experienced was the day her second daughter was born.
I had just gotten into folk music when I was 16. I got a guitar and I was learning everything I could, which basically ended up being three chords. There was a radio station in Washington DC, about 25 miles away, which played folk music every night. It opened up a whole world for me, all those songs and incredible singers and songwriters. So I had my radio on every night while I was doing my homework, just discovering all these artists like Joan Baez, who was really the one who made me pick up a guitar. Besides her music, I feel she changed the heart of America through her involvement in the civil rights movement, using her voice, literally using her voice, the way she did. I’d love to tell that teenage girl listening to the radio that one day she’ll be on stage singing for Joan Baez at her induction into the Kennedy Center Honors [in June 2021].
Looking back on the 16-year-old me, I feel a certain tenderness towards that young girl. I didn’t know much, I was very naive. I had a very sheltered life. I was very intense. I would say to that girl, try to have more fun. I worried about getting good grades. I didn’t really know how to flirt. I didn’t date. I didn’t really know how to fit into the social fabric of high school. And I didn’t see how I could have a career in music because I didn’t study music – I didn’t know music theory. So I thought music would just be something I would do on the side.
