Born in Birmingham, Alabama in , Harris belongs to a military brat family. Her father a military officer in the Marine Corps. She was raised in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia. She earned a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied music as a major, but she ultimately dropped out to become a folk singer in New York. Emmylou Harris started her musical career performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses and clubs.
She also has achieved fourteen Top Ten albums on the Billboard country album charts. Along the way, she brought millions of new young fans to country music by providing common ground for rock audiences and country listeners. Her influence extended outside of mainstream country music, too, with acclaimed artists like Iris Dement, Patty Griffin, Nanci Griffith, Lucinda Williams, and many others regularly citing Harris as an artistic guidepost.
To date, Harris has won twelve Grammy Awards. She also has frequently recorded duets—including hits with Earl Thomas Conley, John Denver, Roy Orbison, Buck Owens, and Don Williams—and she has sung harmony vocals on hundreds of recordings by other artists.
The resulting live album, At the Ryman , was released in January , just days before she became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Thanks in part to the renewed attention brought to the old building, it was restored and reopened as a music venue. Harris resumed singing and playing the guitar in D. While performing with a trio at local bars, Harris met several members of the maverick country-rock band the Flying Burrito Brothers, who introduced her to their ex-bandleader, Gram Parsons.
Parsons had just begun his solo career, and needed a female vocalist to sing harmony on his debut solo effort, GP She also went on tour with Parsons and his backup act, the Fallen Angels, and returned to the studio with him in to record his acclaimed follow-up album, Grievous Angel.
Tragically, in September , Parsons died in a California hotel room from a heart attack brought on by drug and alcohol abuse. After the untimely death of her mentor, Harris formed her own group, the Angel Band, and signed with Warner Bros. Ahern and Harris were married in January , and Ahern would helm all of Harris' next 10 albums. She recorded her second album, the top-selling Elite Hotel , with a new backup band called the Hot Band, which included two sidemen who played with Elvis Presley.
Anchored by the success of two No. Blue Kentucky Girl was Harris' sixth straight gold album. She also sang guest vocals on Bob Dylan's album Desire. Harris gave up touring while pregnant with her second child, Meghann, and instead recorded a hit Christmas album, Light of the Stable , with a title single that featured guest vocals by Dolly Parton , Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt. The acoustic bluegrass album Roses in the Snow also went gold, as did Evangeline , a compilation of songs left off previous albums.
After two less successful studio albums 's Cimarron and 's White Shoes and one live effort, 's Last Date , Harris and Ahern separated in , and she moved back to Nashville. The group signed to Reprise and relocated to Los Angeles to begin work on Harris ' major-label solo debut, 's acclaimed Pieces of the Sky , an impeccable collection made up largely of diverse covers ranging in origin from Merle Haggard to the Beatles.
Hardin as well as a young songwriter named Rodney Crowell on backup vocals and rhythm guitar. The resulting album proved to be a smash, with covers of Buck Owens ' "Together Again" and the Patsy Cline perennial "Sweet Dreams" both topping the charts. The record was Crowell 's last with the Hot Band ; one of the tracks, "Green Rolling Hills," included backing from Ricky Skaggs , soon to become Crowell 's replacement as Harris ' vocal partner.
Released in , Blue Kentucky Girl was her most country-oriented work to date, an indication of what was to come a year later with Roses in the Snow , a full-fledged excursion into acoustic bluegrass. Shortly afterward, Harris quit touring to focus on raising her second daughter, Meghann.
Evangeline , a patchwork of songs left off of previous albums, appeared in In , drummer John Ware , the final holdover from the first Hot Band lineup, left the group; at the same time, Harris ' marriage to Ahern was also beginning to disintegrate.
After leaving Ahern , she and her children moved back to Nashville. Together, they began formulating a record called The Ballad of Sally Rose , employing the pseudonym Harris often used on the road to veil what was otherwise a clearly autobiographical portrait of her own life. Though a commercial failure, the record proved pivotal in Harris ' continued evolution as an artist and a risk-taker, and she would release an expanded edition of the album in It also marked another chapter in her personal life when she and Kennerley wed shortly after concluding their tour.
Angel Band , a subtle acoustic collection of traditional country spirituals, followed, although the record was not issued until , after the release of its immediate follow-up, Thirteen. Harris , Dolly Parton , and Linda Ronstadt had first toyed with the idea of recording an album together as far back as , only to watch the project falter in light of touring commitments and other red tape. In , Harris would reunite with Parton and Ronstadt for a second collaborative album, Trio II , and the two albums and a number of unreleased tracks were later compiled into a box set, 's The Complete Trio Collection.
At the time of the record's release, Harris was also serving a term as president of the Country Music Foundation. In , she ended her long association with Warner Bros.
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