TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7089
Emmylou Harris Album Rankings
1
Biographers of James Taylor, not to mention the man himself, have taken lately to characterizing key songs in his catalog as "secular hymns.
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Emmylou Harris' major-label solo debut quickly establishes the pattern that the vast majority of her subsequent work would follow:Pieces of the Skyis bravely eclectic, impeccably performed, and aching
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3
Lovely, heartbreaking, and just diffident enough to get perspective on this bittersweet old world
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4
While Emmylou Harris spent much of her career carrying on the legacy ofGram Parsons,Elite Hotelranks among her most overt tributes to his genius, thanks to its covers ofthe Flying Burrito Brothers' "S
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5
In the early days of her career, Emmylou Harris was one of country music's true trailblazers, blasting out of the legend of Gram Parsons in 1973 to play country with a rock & roll heart.
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6
Clark Collis Clark Collis is a senior writer for EW Emmylou Harris is best known for brilliantly reinterpreting other people's material with her high, crystalline voice.
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7
A transcendent and seductively personal sound.
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9
At fifty-one, Emmylou Harris could easily be coasting on her reputation.
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10
It was while promoting 2002's re-recorded orchestral anthology Travelogue that Joni Mitchell made her stroppy exit from the "corrupt cesspool" of the music biz.
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11
Rhino's double-discAnthologyconcentrates on Emmylou Harris' Reprise recordings, which is a blessing.
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12
In response to criticism that her records weren't "country" enough, Harris recordedBlue Kentucky Girl, one of her most traditional outings.
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13
Emmylou Harris is an artist with the rare sort of voice that communicates an honest and firmly grounded humanity while possessing a crystalline purity that verges on the angelic.
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14
It's a good thing that Emmylou Harris makes as many albums as she does. Otherwise, their erratic quality would be infuriating.
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15
Good songs ( T-Bone Burnett 's "Drivin' Wheel," Donna Summer 's "On The Radio," Johnny Ace 's "Pledging My Love") and typically diverse, but this country-rock effort doesn't gel as well as others.
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17
On this breathtaking, acoustic gospel album, Harris is backed by a band that includes Vince Gill on guitar, mandolin and tenor harmonies.
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18
Since Emmylou Harris first came to many people's attention as a harmony singer, it's no surprise that she's often sought as a duet partner.
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19
Harris's first album after disbanding her Hot Band is a straightforward country album by Harris standards, which means that in addition to working with top-flight session musicians she brings in Iris
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20
The Cowboy boots pictured on the sleeve of Emmylou Harris'Blue Kentucky Girl–the LP for which she won the "Best Country Album" Grammy last year – looked store-bought and stiff.
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21
Produced by Richard Bennett, who would later work with Steve Earle , Kim Richey and George Ducas , Bluebird has a mystic-country feel that in retrospect is almost a prototype for Wrecking Ball .
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22
Last Date offers a good indication of Harris' live sets with the Hot Band during the early '80s.
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24
One of the best live country albums ever, recorded in a yet-to-be-refurbished Ryman Auditorium, the one-time home of the Grand Ole Opry.
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26
Portraits is a three-disc, 61-track box set covering Emmylou Harris' entire career for Reprise and Warner Records, which spans from 1974 to 1992.
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27
Cowboys and other Western themes have long been among Harris's favorite subjects, and this album collects many of the Western tunes she's recorded over the years, from Shel Silverstein's "Queen Of Th
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28
This is one of the most intriguing albums of Emmylou Harris' career, and that is saying a lot.
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31
The late Junior Parker once recorded a tune called "Sometime Tomorrow My Broken Heart Will Die"; the most Emmylou Harris can tell us is that sometime tomorrow her broken heart will sigh.
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