Emmylou Harris - Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
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Free Music Notes for Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
Free Music Review: tracks
Hit: 5 Stars
Disc: 1
Clocks (alternate take)
The Angels Rejoiced Last Night (with Gram Parsons)
The Old Country Baptizing (with Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels)
Coat of Many Colors
For No One
Ooh Las Vegas
Satan's Jewel Crown
Tulsa Queen
My Songbird
Green Rolling Hills
One Paper Kid (with Willie Nelson)
Sorrow in the Wind
Rough and Rocky
Jordan (with Johnny Cash)
Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn
Ashes By Now (with Dr. John)
How High the Moon
Spanish Johnny (with Waylon Jennings)
The Last Cheaters Waltz
Racing in the Streets
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
Disc: 2
The Sweetheart Of the Rodeo (with Linda Ronstadt / Dolly Parton / Vince Gill / Gail Davies)
When I Was Yours
My Father's House
Bright Morning Stars
When He Calls
Lonely Street
Brand New Dance
Get Up John
If I Could Be There
Ballad of a Runaway Horse
Going Back to Harlan
Sweet Old World
All My Tears
Prayer in Open D (Live)
Bang the Drum Slowly
Boy From Tupelo
Lost Unto This World
Man is an Island
Cup of Kindness
Disc: 3
Falling in a Deep Hole (previously unreleased)
1917 (with Linda Ronstadt)
Palms of Victory (previously unreleased, with Linda Ronstadt / Dolly Parton)
Softly and Tenderly (previously unreleased, with Linda Ronstadt / Dolly Parton)
My Dear Companion (with Linda Ronstadt / Dolly Parton)
Mary Danced With Soldiers (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
I Don't Love You Much Do I (with Guy Clark)
All I Left Behind (previously unreleased)
I Remember You (with Steve Earle)
Golden Ring (with Linda Ronstadt / Anna McGarrigle / Kate McGarrigle)
Sonny (with Dolores Keane / Mary Black)
In the Garden (previously unreleased)
Love Still Remains
Snake Song
Hobo's Lullaby
Wondering
Immigrant Eyes (previously unreleased)
Juanita (with Sheryl Crow)
She (with the Pretenders)
Sin City (with Beck)
Wheels (with the Seldom Scene)
Disc: 4
Beyond the Blue (with Patty Griffin)
First in Line (previously unreleased - with John Starling)
Highway of Heartaches (previously unreleased - with Carl Jackson)
Alone and Forsaken (with Mark Knopfler)
Child of Mine
Heaven Ain't Ready For You Yet
Wish We Were Back in Missouri
Mama's Hungry Eyes
Here We Are (with George Jones)
Waltz Across Texas Tonight (previously unreleased)
Snowin' on Raton (previously unreleased)
Gone (previously unreleased)
Don't Let Your Love Die (previously unreleased)
The Pearl (Live)
Wildwood Flower (with Iris DeMent / Randy Scruggs)
Love and Happiness (with Mark Knopfler)
When We're Gone, Long Gone (with Linda Ronstadt / Dolly Parton)
Free Music Review: Mesmerizing
Hit: 5 Stars
As time goes by, I find myself drawn more and more to the music of Emmylou Harris. When I began listening to country music as a child, she was still having regular hits on the Billboard charts. I liked her music, but in those days would not have listed her as one of my favorite artists. Over the years that slowly began to change, and today she is definitely on a very short list of favorites. Whether this is case of my musical tastes maturing, or an unconscious rebellion against the increasingly pop-oriented music coming out of Nashville these days, I do not know, but I've been listening to a lot of Emmylou these days and decided that I had to add Songbird to my collection.
This is beautifully packaged with a hardcover booklet that contains a biography of Emmylou and a track-by-track commentary. This is by far the nicest boxed set I've ever purchased. I was a little concerned when I read so many other reviews that complained that the discs were difficult to remove from their sleeves. I did not find that to be the case at all, so perhaps Rhino has addressed that problem since the set was originally released.
This is not a greatest hits package, but rather, as the title suggests, rare tracks culled from Emmylou's back catalog, and collaborations that originally appeared on other artists' albums. The absence of any big hits further illustrates the consistent quality of Emmylou's body of work. There was never any filler on her albums; there isn't a weak track on this set. Each one can hold its own against any of her more familiar radio hits. Thirteen tracks were previously unreleased. Among these are the real gems of the set -- the collaborations with Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton, which were recorded in the 1970s for the aborted Trio album that was never released due to complications with three artists who were under contract to three different record labels. (In 1987, the ladies finally got together in the studio and recorded the now classic "Trio" album). Other standout tracks are "Sonny", a collaboration with Ireland's Dolores Keane and Mary Black and the live version of "Prayer In Open D".
This is a must-have for any serious Emmylou fan, and even casual fans will find much to enjoy here. It makes a fine companion piece for the 2001 Anthology (The Warner-Reprise Years), which contains the big hits that are missing from Songbird. It's a fine collection from a true artist who, unlike so many others, has never compromised her artistic integrity in pursuit of greater commercial success. It is that kind of artistry that has earned Emmylou Harris widespread respect, and a well-deserved space in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Free Music Review: EmmyLou: Always Great!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you love EmmyLou's great voice, then this collection is a "must own". Each disc is as great as the next. I get very tired of an artist when I try to listen to all three or four discs of a box set at one sitting. Not this compilation---kept my interest through all four discs in a row. Played all four again, and then once more the following day---I've never tried that before, and I do own some great box sets---Ray Charles, Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Jefferson Airplane, Moody Blues, even the Stones---but they all tend to get a bit "long in the tooth" after awhile. EmmyLou manages to stay fresh the whole time.
Now, as for the packaging that eveyone is complaining about---I was prepared for the worst! However, disc three is the only one that is nearly impossible to deal with. I got the other three out relatively easy, but had to commit a very grievous sin---had to pull them out with my thumb and forefinger---a total "no-no", self-imposed because of my "obsessive-compulsive" audiophile tendencies. I absolutely loathe touching any part of my cd's except for the rims. Fingerprints on cd's---they just don't belong there---don't look good, don't sound good either.
So, I won't be listeneing to cd # 3 very often! But, hey, there's three other great ones to enjoy. EmmyLou picked all of these songs out herself, and you can tell---she did a superb job---you might even say that she knows her own music better than any producer ever could. And to end with a quote from Forest Gump, "that's all I have to say about that".
Free Music Review: A treasure by a treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
Five stars twice over. I admit that when it comes to Emmylou I am not objective. The fact is I have just about everything she's recorded in all formats and Songbird is my 4th Retrospective. If you are new to this great artist and or don't have a representative sampling of her work this collection is a no brainer. If, like me, you have her songs on hand the unreleased tracks, accompanying DVD and informative booklet are well worth the price. Emmylou's work as a soloist and accompanying harmonizer is unsurpassed and Songbird is a walk through her extensive, eclectic career as well as a period piece encompassing country music and alternative music. But categorizing Emmylou Harris does her a disservice. She is a category unto herself- Emmylou=great music. No category needed. Her achingly beautiful angelic voice is a song's best friend and she supplements many of the songs with some of her best friends like Dolly Parton, Steve Earle,Willie Nelson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Sheryl Crow, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Elvis Costello, Beck and Patty Griffin a great artist in her own right and one of many championed and influenced by Emmylou over her long career. A career which began with Gram Parsons and coincided with the marriage of country and rock music. For me to single out a favorite song would be superfluous. I would probably end up typing out the entire song list. Get Songbird and enjoy the flight!Free Music Review: I have been in love
Hit: 5 Stars
Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
with Emmylou Harris for three decades or so. At first it was because she looked a lot like my girlfriend but later it was because of her voice and the songs she chose to sing. Emmylou shared her heartbreak and lonliness with me and I never doubted hers was as real as mine. I have always hated country and western music except when Emmylou sang it - I could never figure that out. Perhaps it was because she never tried to oversell it.
The new boxed set Songbird was actually compiled by Emmylou and as such there are many, many songs that I never knew existed here and they are mixed artfully with the more familiar songs. Some of this material would not have been available at all without her efforts as the rights were owned by different and various people. I feel this represents an unprecedented effort on the part of an artist to represent herself through the music she herself feels closest to. The trios with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt are particularly welcome in that regard.
If you like Emmylou Harris you must have this set even if you own every other album she ever released.