Motown vignettes: Clinton, Judd, others talk music Sep 5, 2009
" ___ WYNONNA JUDD: Judd fancies herself a bit of a musical historian. She grew up listening to everything from soul/gospel stars Al Green and Aretha Franklin to bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley and country standout Emmylou Harris. "I have musical ADD (attention deficit disorder) because of it," she said. "My records are nuts. " Her teenage son, Elijah, knows the great singers of the past, but many don't "and it bothers me," Judd said. After a tour of Studio A, the country star made her way to the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Labor-intensive lineup Sep 3, 2009
The lineup includes Juno Award-winning guitarist Colin Linden, a roots music renaissance man - singer, songwriter, producer - who's been a sideman to stars Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Also on tap are Blind Mississippi Morris lack Prairie Blues Kings, Mark Massey, Eric Hughes Band and more. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Sam Bush goes back to his roots Aug 27, 2009
The co-founder of the acclaimed New Grass Revival, the Kentucky native has an extensive track record of exemplary solo work and commendable collaborations with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Leon Russell, Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck and Levon Helm. Most of the album features Bush's road band - Scott Vestall (banjo), Stephen Mougin (guitar), Byron Harris (bass) and Chris Brown (drums) - but bluegrass legend Del McCoury steps in to harmonize on a pair of Bill Monroe-penned songs. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Plenty of musical entertainment planned for Apple Daze 2009 Aug 22, 2009
Bob has performed with Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, John Hartford, Ralph Stanley, Rhonda Vincent and many others. He has appeared on Grand Ole Opera a number of times. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
No rush to keep up with the Jones girl Aug 18, 2009
The most compelling argument for his equanimity is the way he has coped with being asked about Norah Jones in almost every interview, when he has made seven albums of his own, produced others, had the likes of Willie Nelson, Cat Power and Emmylou Harris record his songs and had a career which existed before and after he wrote Don't Know Why. He has a new album of gentle, honey-flavoured songs called Watching the Sky but I haven't asked him about it yet, only Her. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Coming back to Buffy Sainte-Marie Aug 16, 2009
Her influence has rippled well beyond the 60s, with vocal admirers ranging from Emmylou Harris and the Indigo Girls to contemporary songwriters Neko Case and Serena Ryder. (Sainte-Marie proudly points out Courtney Love s version of Cod ine, one of Sainte-Marie s early classics, on YouTube. (Boston Globe)
Critic’s corner Aug 6, 2009
A broadcast of the May 3 concert at Madison Square Garden, featuring Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, and others. So You Think You Can Dance 8 p.m., Channel 25. (Boston Globe)
Bringing the festival to its feet Jul 17, 2009
Ladysmith Black Mambazo celebrated 12 years of democracy in South Africa with the January 2006 release of Long Walk to Freedom, a collection of recordings of classic Mambazo songs with numerous special guests, including Melissa Etheridge, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Joe McBride, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant and Zap Mama. In addition to Shabalala and Mazibuko, the group currently includes Shabalala s four sons Msizi, Sibongiseni, Thamsanqa and Thulani Shabalala; Russel Mthembu; Mazibuko s... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Album Cover Artist Tom Wilkes Dies Unexpectedly at Home in California Jul 5, 2009
Janis Joplin - "Pearl" Ike Turner - "Outta Season" Eric Clapton - "Eric Clapton" Dave Mason - "Alone Together" Joe Cocker - "Mad Dogs shmen" Flying Burrito Brothers - "Gilded Palace of Sin" John Prine - "John Prine" Emmylou Harris - "Blue Kentucky Girl" and "Elite Hotel" Leon Russell - "Stop All That Jazz" REO Speedwagon - "You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish". In addition to creating hundreds of posters, logos, books, trade ads and illustrations, Wilkes produced and directed TV and... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Lineup for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival Jul 4, 2009
Elvis Costello might be sitting this one out - for now - but the Oct. 2-4 concerts in Golden Gate Park will also bring out many familiar faces, such as Hardly Strictly regulars Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs and Hellman's band, the Wronglers. This year's concert - now expanded to six stages across Speedway, Lindley and Marx meadows - promises lots of must-see acts: Actor Steve Martin, who recently released a bluegrass album, "The Crow," featuring his banjo playing,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Duo breathe new life into old tunes Jun 4, 2009
The pair contacted Nashville producer-bassist Brian Harrison, and with a small band that included drummer Bryan Owings (Emmylou Harris), steel guitarist Robby Turner (who's played with everyone from Willie and Waylon to Rodney Crowell and Ringo Starr) and Cari Norris (who traces her lineage to her grandmother Lily May Ledford of the legendary Coon Creek Girls), knocked out "Among the Oak & Ash" in just six days. For Joplin, whose interest in the songs began as a 12-year-old and was rekindled... (Athens Banner-Herald)
CD Spin: Elvis Costello Jun 3, 2009
He even recorded in Nashville with T-Bone Burnett, his producer on "King of America," and sent out for Emmylou Harris to bring some extra country to "The Crooked Line," one of two songs he wrote with Burnett. Like many highlights here, "The Crooked Line" is straight-up bluegrass, with Costello at his most romantic ("If you were my life's companion as it seems you may turn out to be") while an accordion and fiddle share the instrumental spotlight. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Best bets: Conan OBrien takes over Tonight Jun 2, 2009
His latest album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, is country-flavored and features a duet with Emmylou Harris and a song co-written by Loretta Lynn. The U.K. Guardian gave the album four of five stars and said that Costello is in fine, lovelorn country form. (MSNBC -- News)
Paste Calls for Donations Jun 2, 2009
In exchange for their support, Paste offered readers exclusive tracks available on its website from over 120 participating artists, including The Decemberists, She & Him, Neko Case, Emmylou Harris, Indigo Girls and Matthew Sweet. Editors also held random drawings that awarded donors signed R.E.M. posters and an ocean-view cabin on 2010's Cayamo cruise. (Suite101.com)
Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' Jun 1, 2009
The best of these include the aching cheater drama "I Felt the Chill" and the lilting, Cajun-spiced "The Crooked Line," which features Emmylou Harris adding her flinty vocal shades. Costello is a longtime fan of classic country music, and occasionally that devotion manifests itself as unnecessary vocal or stylistic affects. (Boston Globe)
Clark, Mandrell, McCoyjoin Hall of Fame May 21, 2009
From left are Barbara Mandrell, Ralph Emery, Emmylou Harris, George Jones, and Roy Clark. . (MSNBC -- Music)
Keeping alive the Van Zandt flame May 19, 2009
Van Zandt's emotionally coiled, poetic and sometimes calmly dark songs have been covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson and cited by any alternative country/folk artists worth their salt. But it is Earle who has consistently sung his songs in concert, sung his praises in print and now recorded an album of his songs done in almost spare settings to recreate the often mesmerising man he saw perform rather than the oft compromised version some of us have heard on CD.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Anticipated summer albums May 9, 2009
Last year's model revived the garage-punk abandon of 1986's "Blood and Chocolate." This one revisits the stripped-down American roots first explored that same year on an album called "King of America." He even recorded with T-Bone Burnett, his producer on "King of America," and sent out for Emmylou Harris to bring some extra country to the mix, which features one song Elvis co-wrote with Loretta Lynn and two he wrote for Johnny Cash. (June 2, Hear Music). (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Heritage is also a draw at Jazz Fest May 6, 2009
Emmylou Harris, Allen Toussaint, members of Los Lobos and Chuck Brown, "The godfather of Go-Go," were interviewed and took questions from the audience. "We try to make it a cross section of the music on the stages," Sandmel said. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Springsteen Honors Seeger At 90th Birthday Concert May 5, 2009
Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Ani DiFranco and John Mellencamp were among the 40 musicians performing in Madison Square Garden for the Sunday night show, a benefit to raise awareness for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, an organization Seeger started to preserve and protect the Hudson River. A lone light shone on Seeger as he opened the show playing a flute solo called "Menomonee Love Song." As the lights came up, they revealed the outline of a sloop, fitting for an event... (KIRO TV, WA)
Performers Honor Folksinger Pete Seeger With 90th Birthday Concert May 5, 2009
The lineup included Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, and John Mellencamp. Seeger opened the show by playing a flute solo called "Menomenee Love Song.". (KWTX.com, TX)
'Wolverine' leads pack May 5, 2009
SHOWCASE :: Erie's Entertainment Web Site. Steve Johnson Band will play a pre-CD release party for New Beginnings on May 9 at the Docksider, 1015 State St. :: Americana artist Gypsy Dave and the Stumpjumpers will release their next CD, A Bucketful of Ghosts on May 12. (Erie Times-News, PA)
An all-star hootenanny for an American icon May 4, 2009
Emmylou Harris joined second-generation troubadour Teddy Thompson (son of Richard and Linda Thompson), Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Kate's children Rufus and Martha Wainwright along with the New York City Labor Chorus and Sparrow Duo for The Water Is Wide. Tim Robbins joined the Wainwrights on Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, and We Shall Overcome was a rousing ensemble number. (USA Today)
Seeger Rings In 90th Springsteen-Style May 2, 2009
(AP) When Emmylou Harris was a young girl trying to figure out whether she could have a career in music, she decided to seek advice from the wisest man she could think of - so she wrote a note to Pete Seeger. She didn't know him, and he didn't know her: Seeger was already approaching legendary status, while she hadn't recorded a single tune. (CBS News)
Second Half Of New Orleans Jazz Fest Underway May 1, 2009
NEW ORLEANS (April 30, 2009)--Rock musician Ben Harper and country singer Emmylou Harris take the stage Thursday for the second half of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Soul singers Marva Wright and Solomon Burke, singer and violinist Theresa Andersson and the Little Freddie King Blues Band are also set to perform Thursday. (KWTX.com, TX)
Tony Bennett Donates Instruments During Jazz Fest May 1, 2009
Thursday's closing acts were guitarist Ben Harper, country singer Emmylou Harris and soul singer Marva Wright. Additional Resources. (Click2Houston, TX)
Second half of Jazz Fest begins Thursday Apr 30, 2009
The day's closing acts include guitarist Ben Harper, country singer Emmylou Harris and soul singer Marva Wright. Jazz singer Tony Bennett, who is slated to perform at the festival on Friday, will be spending Thursday afternoon at a New Orleans school where he and his wife, Susan, are presenting students with musical instruments. (KSLA.com, LA)
MORE: Jazz Fest flaunts its Louisiana roots Apr 28, 2009
Emmylou Harris and Doc Watson were lured back after long absences, as was Pete Seeger, performing eight days shy of his 90th birthday. Davis fulfilled his long wish list, with one exception. (USA Today -- Life)
Badu, brass bands get Jazz Fest thousands on feet Apr 28, 2009
Other acts slated for next weekend include the rock group Bon Jovi, country singer Emmylou Harris, the country group Sugarland and the fest's closing day act, The Neville Brothers. Associated Press writer Stacey Plaisance contributed to this report. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Lewis' 'Acid Tongue' to go on display at Belly Up Apr 9, 2009
In the Rolling Stone story, Jayhawks leader Gary Louris called her the "Emmylou Harris" of the new Laurel Canyon scene ... "I think particularly when you're referring to that time period. I cover a Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris version of 'Love Hurts' sometimes in concert. She has one of the purest voices of a time. It's like a bell.". (North County Times)
Strings attached Mar 21, 2009
By the late 1970s he was pushing beyond the folk fields and was exploring Tex-Mex, working with the great Flaco Jimenez and nudging bluegrass to a point where, when Emmylou Harris recorded her great Live At The Ryman album, with its strong bluegrass leanings, she rather ruefully admitted that she had stolen Rowan's band. Now, shortly after his arrival in Sydney, he sits dressed in a blue silk bathrobe, surrounded by the chaos of a musician. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A legend improved by his even better half Mar 17, 2009
In the press notes to Written in Chalk, Emmylou Harris (another guest here) testifies: If you want to talk about how country music should be nowadays, it's Buddy Miller. Add Julie Miller to that quote, and you can write it in stone. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Choctaw Bingo Mar 14, 2009
Rosanne Cash and Emmylou Harris sometimes hit that note of highway melancholy, too. Hangover wisdom, truck-stop soul, stolen-car drive tunes: It's hard to give the genre a name. (Slate)
• Tickets go on sale for folk legend Tom Rush Mar 13, 2009
Recorded in Nashville, "What I Know" was produced by Tom's long-time friend Jim Rooney and includes original Rush material, as well as harmonies by Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Bramlett and Nanci Griffith. Today, Tom Rush lives in New Hampshire when he's not touring. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Comedian and SXSW Musician Margaret Cho Mar 13, 2009
Maybe I should be more like Emmylou Harris and have a beautiful dress. " I can't decide. I have no idea what my my rock look is going to be. I think I'm gonna do a different one every show. One day you can be Dolly Parton and the next day you can be like a 90s rapper Like I'm in Run-DMC. You should wear Hammer pants. I think I have some of those! Are you excited to see any bands while you're in Austin? I'm excited to see Amanda Palmer's show, which I'm also performing in. I'm just excited to go.... (Time.com)
SXSW features some local bands to watch Mar 13, 2009
Eksi Ekso Chances are your album's going to sound pretty good if it's coproduced and mixed by a Grammy Award winner (Malcolm Burn) who's worked with Peter Gabriel and Emmylou Harris. The tricky part, however, is being talented enough to get a guy like that to work with you. (Boston Globe)
1st symphony manifests fiddler O'Connor's destiny Mar 13, 2009
Not the tunes he recorded with Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris or Doc Watson, just melodies that came from nowhere and stuck in his head. After six months, he surrendered. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Bachman, Gaiman to shine at Luminato Mar 11, 2009
Just down the road at Massey Hall that same night, country star Emmylou Harris will be joined by Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller for an event called Three Girls and Their Buddy. The following evening, bluesman Taj Mahal will lead a worldwide exploration of the genre in the Travelling Blues, the Derek Trucks Band will lead a full slate of slide guitarists. (Globe and Mail)
Birmingham Chamber to honor 'dream' makers Mar 6, 2009
will honor its 2008 class of Live the Dream award winners tonight, including Grammy winner Emmylou Harris and former Crimson Tide linebacker DeMeco Ryans ... The recipients are Dr. James Andrews, an orthopaedic surgeon, Emmylou Harris, a Grammy-award winning singer and Birmingham native, James McClintock, a UAB researcher, DeMeco Ryans, an NFL player with the Houston Texans and former University of Alabama football player, and Shelley Stewart, entrepreneur and owner of o2 ideas. (Birmingham Business Journal, AL)
2 music greats, 1 weekend Feb 28, 2009
Buffet: Bob Marley, Moe Keale, Kings of Leon, Jack Johnson, Emmylou Harris. NEXT UP. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Three Girls, without their Buddy, strike a chord Feb 26, 2009
Emmylou Harris (seen here last year in Amsterdam) shared the stage at the Orpheum Sunday with her touring partners Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin ... Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Shawn Colvin are on a tour called Three Girls and Their Buddy, but their Buddy was missing. (Boston Globe)
Playlist: Empire of the Sun Feb 10, 2009
Emmylou Harris Leaving Louisiana In the Broad Daylight This is girl country at its best, the groove is rad, real lowdown. I grew up with country music, my dad is the big country blues musician. (guardian.co.uk)
Bon Jovi returns to New Orleans for 2009 Jazz Fest Feb 8, 2009
Performing the second weekend are Ben Harper, Emmylou Harris, Sugarland, Tony Bennett, Bonnie Raitt, Allen Toussaint and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly. Like last year, the Neville Brothers will be the festival's closing act on May 3. (USA Today -- Life)
Steeling for success Feb 8, 2009
And the SteelDriver s musical and lyrical chops have earned them high-profile fans in the industry such as Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and Emmylou Harris. They deserve to be there, Hays says of the group s prospects for a win. (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
