Emmylou Harris Biography

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 30 years and counting Emmylou Harris has been 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.
The songbird’s contributions to country-rock the bluegrass revival folk music and the Americana movement are widely lauded. Her 1995 Wrecking Ball was a watershed album for her combining several world-music elements with acoustic instruments driving percussion and a folk/roots flavor and in general catching audiences by surprise as Harris yet again reinvented her sound. The new style would evolve on a number of Harris’ subsequent releases including 1998’s Spyboy 1999’s Western Wall (a collaboration with Linda Ronstadt) 2000’s Red Dirt Girl and 2003’s Stumble into Grace.
Emmylou emerged as a solo star with Pieces of the Sky in 1975. The album electrified the country-music world becoming the first in a series of annual gold or platinum albums through the ‘70s. Her next three releases (Elite Hotel Luxury Liner and Quarter Moon in a Ten-Cent Town) made her an unquestioned country-rock leader and since then Emmylou Harris has been regarded as a key figure in the movement that united rock audiences with country traditionalists.

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