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  • Emmylou Harris 2011 h by Jack Spencer
    Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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    Emmylou Harris Concludes European Tour, Talks with Rolling Stone

    Emmylou Harris concludes her spring European tour at Admiralspalast in Berlin tonight. She heads back to the States and launches the US leg of her tour at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, on June 17. Harris recently spoke with Rolling Stone about her new album, Hard Bargain, and moments from throughout her career, like her friendship with Gram Parsons, about whom she wrote "The Road" off Hard Bargain, and working with Bob Dylan.

  • Emmylou Harris 2011 h by Jack Spencer
    Thursday, May 26, 2011
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    Video: Emmylou Harris Raises Awareness for Film "The Last Mountain" and March Against Mountaintop Removal Mining

    In a new video, Emmylou Harris lends her voice to the effort to stop mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland. Harris joins Naomi Judd, Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and local and national organizations to help raise public awareness about an upcoming march to end mountaintop removal and a new documentary feature film about the issue called The Last Mountain, set for release in early June. You can watch Harris's video here.

  • Emmylou Harris: National Folk Festival 2011
    Thursday, May 19, 2011
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    Emmylou Harris to Serve As National Folk Festival Co-Chair with Tennessee's Governor and First Lady

    Emmylou Harris will serve along with Tennessee's Governor and First Lady as honorary co-chairs for the 73rd Annual National Folk Festival in Nashville over Labor Day weekend. The festival is free. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reviewing her new album, says: "Few weave stories like Emmylou Harris. Her Hard Bargain is a collection of tales that can make us feel whole again." The Boston Phoenix says Harris is "still singing and writing beautifully after all these years ... Hard Bargain is a gorgeous album."

  • Emmylou Harris: "Imagine," Late Show with David Letterman, April 2011
    Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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    Video: Emmylou Harris Performs John Lennon's "Imagine" in "Late Show with David Letterman" Web Exclusive

    Emmylou Harris performed two shows in Norway over the weekend, at which she proved why she is the "Queen of Country Rock," says the Bergens Tidende. Harris appeared on Steve Earle's Hardcore Troubadour Radio show; you can watch their very special duet on rollingstone.com. Watch a web-exclusive performance of John Lennon's "Imagine" from the Late Show with David Letterman here.

  • Emmylou Harris 2011 guitar by Jack Spencer
    Friday, April 29, 2011
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    Emmylou Harris Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered," Steve Earle's "Hardcore Troubadour Radio"

    Emmylou Harris is featured on today's edition of NPR's All Things Considered. She spoke with host Melissa Block about her new album, Hard Bargain, and what Block calls a "strain of wistfulness" in the songs she wrote for it, including "The Road," about her relationship with Gram Parsons. Harris joins Steve Earle on his Hardcore Troubadour Radio show on Sirius XM Outlaw Country this weekend, featuring solo performances of songs from Hard Bargain and a very special duet.

  • Emmylou Harris: Ram Country on Yahoo! Music, April 2011
    Thursday, April 28, 2011
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    Video: Emmylou Harris Performs on "Late Show with David Letterman," "Today" Show, Yahoo! Music

    Emmylou Harris performed "Six White Cadillacs," off her new album, Hard Bargain, on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. Letterman called her "an icon, one of the greats, if not the best in country music and, just generally, popular music as far as a composer and a singer and an artist." She performed the album's title track on the Today show this morning. Yahoo! Music's Ram Country series features a video interview with Harris and performances of three songs off the album: "Six White Cadillacs," "Home Sweet Home," and "Darlin' Kate." Watch all of these videos here.

  • Emmylou Harris: Bowery Ballroom, April 26, 2011
    Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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    Emmylou Harris to Perform on Letterman; NPR's Fresh Air Says New Album Her "Most Eclectic, Loose-Fitting" in Years

    Emmylou Harris celebrated the release of her new album, Hard Bargain, with a special performance of the complete album at NY's Bowery Ballroom last night. She performs "Six White Cadillacs" on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight and will appear on the Today show tomorrow morning. NPR's Fresh Air calls the new album "the most eclectic and loose-fitting album Emmylou Harris has made in a long time," one that "deserves a wider audience." WNYC's Soundcheck names it a Pick of the Week.

  • Emmylou Harris: "Hard Bargain" [cover]
    Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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    Emmylou Harris's "Hard Bargain" Out Now—"Exquisite" (USA Today); Harris Discusses the Album in New Video

    Emmylou Harris's new album, Hard Bargain, is out now. She performs at Bowery Ballroom tonight and on the Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow. The Washington Post says Hard Bargain is "lovely and understated and will only further Harris’s reputation as a paragon of gentle dignity and forbearance." USA Today gives it four stars and calls it "exquisite." Paste says Harris continues to create "some of the best country-influenced music being recorded today." Country Standard Time says the album "marks another triumphant recording in a career filled with memorable work." In a new video, Harris talks about her songwriting and recording the new album; watch it here.

  • Emmylou Harris: "Six White Cadillacs" [video]
    Monday, April 25, 2011
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    Emmylou Harris Featured in NY Times, LA Times, AP; "Six White Cadillacs" Video Premieres on Garden & Gun

    Emmylou Harris, whose album Hard Bargain is due out tomorrow, is the subject of a feature profile in the New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure section, which says the new album "is suffused with kindly intimacy, acknowledging sorrows and reaching past them." The AP says her new songs are "up to her high standards." Harris also spoke with The Canadian Press and with the Los Angeles Times, which cites "her unwavering compassion throughout her career for the underdog, oppressed, the voiceless." The video for the song "Six White Cadillacs" has premiered on Garden & Gun, which says the album "packs a powerful, bluesy punch"; watch the video here.

  • Emmylou Harris: "Tavis Smiley" April 2011
    Friday, April 22, 2011
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    Video: Emmylou Harris on PBS's "Tavis Smiley"

    Emmylou Harris performed songs from her forthcoming album, Hard Bargain, at LA's El Rey Theatre last night, with Ryan Adams offering a surprise guest opening set. She performs at New York's Bowery Ballroom with another surprise special guest opener on Tuesday. Harris appeared on PBS's Tavis Smiley show earlier this week. "Harris is admired as much for her straightforward songwriting as for her expressive singing," says the show. "Forty years into her career, she's still doing both with ... Hard Bargain." Watch the show here.

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