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When I watched the Wiki article on Emmylou Harris, I thought to myself: Why has the admin chosen such an old picture of her ? Though Emmylou is almost 60 years old, she is still a beautiful woman. So why not replace an old picture of a young woman by a new picture of an old woman ? Her age does not lessen her beauty.
Hans Rosenthal (hans.rosenthal AT t-online.de -- replace AT by @ )
The picture of Emmylou Harris is now at the top of this Wikipedia article, where it belongs to. Thank you, who ever shifted her picture to its appropriate place. Hans Rosenthal (ROHA) (hans.rosenthal AT t-online.de -- replace AT by @ ) (12102006)
That section is huge. Can someone who knows more about her work trim that, or is it possibly better to remove it entirely? -- badlydrawnjeff talk 13:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
The track "Wild Montana Skies" appeared originally on John Denver's album "World Game" (the title track features The I-Threes and The Wailers). "Wild Montana Skies" is a duet with John Denver. The song was also released on "Duets".
Note: Emmy Lou Harris and Rodney Crowell will head-line the first day of Fairport Convention's Annual Festival on August 13th, 2015. This concert will last three days until the 15th. The location is an English Civil War battle-field in the village of Cropredy which is in Oxfordshire, UK. Please see Fairport Convention web-site, Cite error: A <ref>
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| "Oh My Sweet Carolina"
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Ryan Adams
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Ethan Jones
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Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams
| 2000
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| "The Waltz You Saved for Me"
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John Anderson
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| Wild & Blue by John Anderson
| 1982
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| "The Wayward Wind"
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Lynn Anderson
| harmony vocals
| Lebowsky, Newman
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| Cowboy's Sweetheart by Lynn Anderson
| 1992
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| "The Last Time"
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Tom Astor
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| Meilenstein by Tom Astor
| 1998
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| "Dreaming My Dreams"
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Mike Auldridge
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| Mike Auldridge by Mike Auldridge
| 1976
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| "Appalachian Rain"
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Matraca Berg
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| Lying to the Moon by Matraca Berg
| 1990
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Mary Black
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Eleanor McEvoy
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| Looking Back by Mary Black
| 1995
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| "Grey Funnel Line"
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Mary Black,
Dolores Keane
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Donal Lunny
| Bringing It All Back Home, Vol. 2 by various artists
| 1999
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| "Sonny"
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Mary Black,
Dolores Keane
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Donal Lunny
| Bringing It All Back Home, Vol. 1 by various artists
| 1998
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David Bromberg
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Bernie Leadon
| Midnight on the Water by David Bromberg
| 1975
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Cindy Bullens
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Neverland by Cindy Bullens
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Looks great! It will fit perfecty on the new Discography page, which I might actually get around to creating this week if no one beats me to it (hint hint, please beat me to it!), and I think a similar format would work well for the rest of the new page, as well. Rivertorch 04:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
It occurs to me that the Contribution column may prove problematic. In almost every case, her contribution is a vocal (should be a handful out of hundreds that are vocal + acoustic guitar) , and there may be endless debate over what constitutes duet vocals vs. harmony vocals. We could probably live without this column, but it doesn't bother me. I like the Producer column; that's cool. Rivertorch 04:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
What about separate lists for harmony vs lead vs unverified contribution? My thought is that there are a number of Emmylou appearances where the only way you know she's there is because the liner notes say so. I'd like a way to distinguish between substantial and other appearances. Ditching the contribution column is probably a good idea. Thoughts? Rubioblanca 14:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Created the Emmylou Harris discography article (someone was begging and I had a moment of weakness). Marked with template:underconstruction. I haven't deleted anything from this article yet. Modeled on the Bob Dylan discography. Help! Rubioblanca 15:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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I have placed merger tags, proposing that The Hot Band article be merged into the section, Emmylou Harris#The Reprise Years. Please discuss the proposal below. Thanks. — Wise Kwai 19:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
The merger is now complete. — Wise Kwai 22:51, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
-- leahtwosaints ( talk) 17:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Looking at the history of this page and Hot Band, I think there may be some confusion. The Hot Band was merged into "Emmylou" in October (it is now a disamb page). But Hot Band was then created anew in November. This latter was proposed for speedy deletion, but Leah said she wanted time to work on it. So, Leah, do you still wish to expand Hot Band or do you agree to another merge-in? Hult041956 ( talk) 20:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Rather than moving this additional info to the logical place in the article, I am reverting it. By my count, in 2004 Emmylou collaborated on seven other artists' songs besides the one on The Revolution Starts Now. In the absence of evidence that this collaboration was particularly noteworthy, it seems inappropriate to single it out in the article proper. It is, of course, in the new and wonderful discography. Rivertorch 06:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
and speaking of video collaborations; where is her Transatlantic Sessions video mentioned? There are videos on YouTube, which chronicle her appearances
in those Bluegrass meets Irish traditional jam sessions.
Cat, who was just stopping by... —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
69.151.192.207 (
talk) 14:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
An anonymous editor added Bob Dylan's Desire album to the "Collaborations" section of Template:Emmylou Harris:
23:10, 9 July 2008 84.148.76.189 (Talk) (2,581 bytes) (ROHA: Added a very important collaboration: with Bob Dylan on his album "Desire", on which Harris backs on most of the songs.)
Although Ms. Harris' background and duet vocals are prominent on Desire, her contributions do not rise to the level of a collaboration. Desire is not a "Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris" album; it is a Bob Dylan album.
I would have edited the template, but the change occurred five weeks ago; I'll therefore solicit comments first.
GrouchyDan ( talk) 03:00, 18 August 2008 (UTC) (Dan)
The second paragraph (and perhaps the remainder) of the Emmylou Harris: Biography: With Gram Parsons subsection is excellently intended but horrendously written, in my humble opinion. This part of the article used to be unremarkable (a good thing), I thought.
I've come across many Wikipedia articles with fancy, highlit, shouting messages either at an article's top or in an article's subsection that scream to the world "What you're about to read is defective because of A; you can fix it by doing B" et cetera.
I've never tried to figure out how to paste one of those admonitory billboards into an article; I won't because of this issue; I'll just labor to author a fitting replacement to the relevant part of the article.
Unless someone else beats me to the punch or dissuades me. (Do YOU think the article section is critically flawed?)
GrouchyDan ( talk) 02:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Well, apparently no one agrees with me. Nonetheless, I've finally made an initial stab at rewriting the second half of the section; I deleted all the text that surrounded the "...drew a crossover of listeners..." because it pertained more to Emmylou's accomplishments during the first part of her solo career than it did to her actual time with Gram.
GrouchyDan (
talk) 10:12, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I realize that this section, as well as most of the article, needs some inline citations; I promise to add them soon for this section (note that there weren't any prior to my edit).
GrouchyDan (
talk) 10:19, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
The very first line of the article says that she's a country artist. Obviously, this isn't wrong. But in two senses it is misleading.
For one thing the core audience for Nashville top-forty country is not that enthusiastic about Emmylou being a country artist. Opinion is divided and some commentators are quite definite about this. Certainly she has been succesful on the country charts and every country artist that I have ever heard praises her and wants to record with her. There is a significant sector of country fandom that rejects anyone whose work isn't one hundred percent country, narrowly defined, almost all the time. This leads to my second, and much more serious, objection to the label 'country' for Emmylou.
Ms. Harris has been succesful in almost every sub-genre of popular music except metal and rap/hip-hop. Her musical horizons are limitless. She started out as a folk musician and has done many songs that were rock or pop. That she adds a country "flavor" to these songs is indisputable but she does a lot more than country. Her performance of songs by Neil Young and Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, among others, is one of the reasons that Nashville top-forty fans deny her a country status. More importantly, they show her to be more than a country singer. She is beyond genre, a perfect angel. 65.79.173.135 ( talk) 16:30, 13 August 2009 (UTC)Will in New Haven 65.79.173.135 ( talk) 16:30, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
I made the following changes to the "associated acts" portion of the infobox:
I also changed the artists mentioned in the lead paragraph, placing them in descending order based on the number of entire albums and the number of recorded songs they've collaborated on with Harris. (This was a rough count; I may have erred.) Without a doubt, there are notable artists that were removed in this edit, but (1) they're now in the infobox and (2) given the number of artists Harris has worked with, there really needs to be a cutoff or it just gets bloated. It was my hope to do this rationally, with a quantitative methodology, but I may have missed something on the qualitative side. Rivertorch ( talk) 09:10, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Reading the section on Gram Parsons and Harris, I was amazed at how biased the phrasing was and I also noticed that there were no citations in this section. Can't any of this be backed up? Most curious is how the author seems to know what Harris is feeling. How is that possible? Perhaps she expressed herself somewhere in an interview? There are too many points here that scream for verification. According to the Wikipedia's assessment standards, this article shouldn't be a B-rated article. (This has nothing to do with my views about Harris or Parsons. I am just an average reader who was perusing it for pleasure while listening to her music.) Crtew ( talk) 14:17, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
I realize that the list of collaborators at the beginning of the article was not intended to be a "laundry list", but she played a pretty significant role in I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and I think it deserves a nod in this list. Why, exactly, does the inclusion of Bright Eyes always get yanked? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.44.207.209 ( talk) 07:08, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Emmylou Harris also did back up vocals with the Australian Band Midnight Oil on their 1996/7 Breathe album. Cambo70 ( talk) 15:19, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
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