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Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell on "Old Yellow Moon"
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell discuss and perform songs from their 2013 duets album Old Yellow Moon, their first official collaboration since Crowell joined Harris's Hot Band in 1975.
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Newport Folk Festival 2011
The 2011 Newport Folk Festival, held July 30-31, offered sold-out crowds two beautiful summer days of music from performers including the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emmylou Harris, Wanda Jackson, and Chris Thile & Michael Daves. You can now listen to all of those sets online at NPR.org, from the ever "vital and contemporary" Harris to the "blazingly intense music" of Thile & Daves. The Boston Globe says that all the music proved "compelling and indebted to what preceded it."
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Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2011
The 38th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival took place June 16-19, 2011, set 8,750 feet up in bucolic Telluride, Colorado. Making music in various combinations were Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Emmylou Harris, Punch Brothers, and Sara Watkins. Just some of the impromptu pairings pictured here include Thile and fellow Punch Brother Noam Pikelny with Béla Fleck; Nickel Creek band mates Thile and Watkins; Watkins and Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge; Pikelny in a pick-off with Watkins and The Decemberists; and Harris with Old Crow Medicine Show.
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Emmylou Harris on "Hard Bargain"
Emmylou Harris talks about the making of her 2011 album Hard Bargain, a collection of 13 tracks featuring 11 original songs that touch on the autobiographical while reaching for the universal. Also offering insight on the album is its producer, Jay Joyce.
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Emmylou Harris: "Six White Cadillacs"
The video for "Six White Cadillacs" comes from the CD/DVD edition of Emmylou Harris's 2011 album, Hard Bargain, which features 13 tracks, including 11 new songs by Harris that touch on the autobiographical while reaching for the universal. Video directed by Jack Spencer.
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Emmylou Harris: "Goodnight Old World"
The video for "Goodnight Old World" comes from the CD/DVD edition of Emmylou Harris's 2011 album, Hard Bargain, which features 13 tracks, including 11 new songs by Harris that touch on the autobiographical while reaching for the universal. On "Goodnight Old World," which she co-wrote with Will Jennings, Harris fashions a bittersweet lullaby to her newly born grandchild, contrasting a grown-up's world-weariness with a baby's wide-eyed wonder. Video directed by Jack Spencer.
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Emmylou Harris, Jessica Lea Mayfield at SXSW 2011 Warner Bros. Party
Emmylou Harris and Jessica Lea Mayfield each performed a number of sets and showcases at the 2011 SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas. The New York Times said of Harris's performance of songs from her new album, Hard Bargain: "One hearing was enough to gather the songs’ grown-up, unsentimental kindness of spirit." SPIN named Mayfield, who performed songs from her album Tell Me, the festival's "Best Rising Star Poised for Cross-Over Success." Here are photos from their sets at the Warner Bros. party at the Hotel St. Cecilia on March 17, 2011.
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park hosted the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival October 1-3, 2010, with several Nonesuch artists there to perform: T Bone Burnett with Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Randy Newman, and HSB regular Emmylou Harris, whom the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed "the silver-haired poster girl for San Francisco's favorite annual live music event."