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* 1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer
During this period, many performers, including Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, Olivia Newton-John, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt, covered her songs, and her siblings Randy and Stella both received recording contracts of their own.
Along with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, she released the decade-in-the-making Trio ( 1987 ) to critical acclaim.
Plans for a brief tour with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to promote their 1987 collaboration Trio fell through, due to the three artists ' conflicting schedules, as well as Parton's prior commitment to her 1987-88 ABC TV series.
Returning to America, Parsons befriended Emmylou Harris, who assisted him on vocals for his first solo record, GP, released in 1973.
He returned to the US for a one-off concert with the Burritos, and at Hillman's instigation went to hear Emmylou Harris sing in a small club in Washington, D. C.
Emmylou Harris has continued to champion Parsons ' work throughout her career, covering a number of his songs over the years, including " Hickory Wind ", " Wheels ", " Sin City ", " Luxury Liner ", and " Hot Burrito No. 2 ".
In February 2008, Gram's protégée, Emmylou Harris, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In November 2009, the musical theatre production Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons premiered, starring Anders Drerup as Gram Parsons and Kelly Prescott as Emmylou Harris.
The song's chorus is a lyrical acknowledgment of the Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris singing partnership.
" Love Hurts " was remade by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, and again by heavy metal band Nazareth.
Later that year, he and Emmylou Harris won a Grammy for their duet " That Lovin ' You Feelin ' Again ".
:* Best Country Performance Duo Or Group ( 1980 ) with Emmylou Harris
That same year, the group recorded soundstage performances with country singer Emmylou Harris (" Evangeline ") and gospel-soul group The Staple Singers (" The Weight "); Scorsese combined these new performances, as well as interviews he had conducted with the group, with the 1976 concert footage.
From the early-to-mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival, where she introduced her audiences to the then-unknown Bob Dylan ( the two became romantically involved in late 1962, remaining together through early 1965 ), and was emulated by artists such as Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt.
This " fresh-air break " lasted only a couple of months, when his old friend, Emmylou Harris, from the Washington, D. C. area, invited him to Los Angeles to sing backup on her Elite Hotel album.
* Emmylou Harris – Grammy-winning Country music / folk singer-songwriter
The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds ; reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists like Emmylou Harris and the Eagles.
Emmylou Harris, the " Queen of country rock ", playing in Rotterdam, Netherlands ( 2006 )
The greatest commercial success for country rock came in the 1970s, with the Doobie Brothers mixing in elements of R & B, Emmylou Harris ( a former backing singer for Parsons ) becoming the " Queen of country-rock " and Linda Ronstadt creating a highly successful pop-oriented brand of the genre.
Julie Miller also wrote a song in tribute to Heard called " All My Tears " which has also been recorded by Jars of Clay, Emmylou Harris ( studio and live versions ) and Selah with Kim Hill.
* Emmylou Harris featuring Buddy & Julie Miller-Live in Concert, covering Julie Miller's " All My Tears ", a Mark Heard tribute
Mr. Moody was the author of songs which are today Southern Gospel standards including " Drifting Too Far From the Shore " which has been covered and recorded by such artists as Jerry Garcia, Emmylou Harris, Phil Lesh, Hank Williams and many others.
The 2004 Sessions album, which had six previously unreleased Norman songs ( including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris ) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman's Softcore, as well as rare songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Keith Green, Steve ' N ' Stonebrooke, and Daniel Amos, was sent to those who contributed $ 100 or more to his medical fund.
" Queen of the Silver Dollar " was first recorded by Dr. Hook on their 1972 album Sloppy Seconds, and later by Doyle Holly ( on his 1973 album Doyle Holly ), Barbi Benton ( on her 1974 album Barbi Doll ), Emmylou Harris ( on her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky ) and Dave & Sugar ( on their 1976 album Dave & Sugar ).

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In 1965, her solo career continued with three major hits that year, " Happy Birthday ", " Blue Kentucky Girl " ( later recorded and made a Top 10 hit in the 70s by Emmylou Harris ), and " The Home You're Tearing Down ".
The greatest commercial success for country rock came in the 1970s, with artist including the Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles ( made up of members of the Burritos, Poco and Stone Canyon Band ), who emerged as one of the most successful rock acts of all time, producing albums that included Hotel California ( 1976 ).

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Harlan was also featured in a Darrell Scott song called " You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive ", a Steve Earle song " Harlan Man ", and Anna McGarrigle's song " Goin ' Back to Harlan " ( notably covered by Emmylou Harris ).
The Pretenders joined with Emmylou Harris on Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, performing the song " She ".
On her 2008 album All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris includes the song " How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower ", co-written with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, about the relationship between A. P.
In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song " Pancho and Lefty ," scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts.
Bern wrote " Swing Set ," a duet with Emmylou Harris, for the off Broadway production of " Family Week " directed by Jonathan Demme and wrote the title song for Demme ’ s documentary " Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains.
" The Cattle Call " was Arnold's signature song, but it has been recorded by many artists including Emmylou Harris and even Elvis Presley.
* Emmylou Harris included the song on her third album Pieces of the Sky in 1975.
Emmylou Harris covers the song on the multi-artist album A Tribute to Joni Mitchell.
Many artists have recorded the song, including Andreas Scholl, Bradley Kincaid, Joan Baez, Shirley Collins, Doris Day, The Everly Brothers, Roger Quilter, Texas Gladden, Nic Jones, John Travolta, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton ( with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ), Maxine Sullivan, Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled ' Piano Piano " in 1983's album Cercando l ' oro and another Italian version titled " Barbriallen " in 2011's album Così è se mi pare ), John Jacob Niles, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Colin Meloy, Michael Hurley, Art Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel, Burl Ives, The Grateful Dead, Dando Shaft, Eddy Arnold, Moses " Clear Rock " Platt, Sonne Hagal, Frank Turner, The New Christy Minstrels, Blackmore's Night and Jim Moray.
* The Emmylou Harris song " Time in Babylon " ( 2003 ) beseeches a Little Boy Blue to tend his wayward flock and let his " song of healing spark a way out of this dark, lead us to a higher and a holy ground ".
Robbie Robertson of The Band wrote the song " Evangeline ," performed with Emmylou Harris, with Longfellow's character in mind.
It featured guest appearances by Chet Atkins, fiddler Johnny Gimble, Don Felder from The Eagles and Emmylou Harris, who dueted with the band on the song " Just Can't Believe It ", which received much airplay on country stations.
Emmylou Harris then covered the song for her 1977 album, Luxury Liner and the song became a number one country hit in 1983 when Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson adopted it as the title track of their duet album Pancho & Lefty.
The song is a duet between Dylan and Emmylou Harris ; as an incidental to its use of the harmonic minor scale it has a decidedly Middle Eastern flavor in the vocal melody.
Tim Riley noted that it was the first time Dylan had invoked God as a method of wooing a woman, and that with Emmylou Harris, the song became a discourse on the fragility of love.
The song has also appeared on landmark albums by Johnny Cash and The Band in 1968 ( see list below ), and charted again in 1999 with the Dave Matthews Band, who performed the song live with Emmylou Harris at a Johnny Cash tribute concert.

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