Emmylou Harris Lyrics

Emmylou Harris Info:

Born:
April 2, 1947 (age )

From:
Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Genres:
Folk, country rock, country, bluegrass, rock, pop, alternative country

Occupations:
Singer-songwriter, musician

Instruments:
Vocals, guitar

Years active:
1969-present

Did You Know:
• She is from a career military family. Her father, Walter Harris, a member of the Marine Corps, was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war.

Associated acts:
Arlo Guthrie
Bob Dylan
Bright Eyes
Bruce Springsteen
Crowder
Dave Matthews
Delbert McClinton
Dixie Chicks
Dolly Parton
Don Williams
Earl Thomas Conley
Elvis Costello
Gram Parsons
Joan Baez
John Denver
John Prine
Juice Newton
Linda Ronstadt
Little Feat
Lucinda Williams
Mark Knopfler
Mumford and Sons
Neil Young
Patty Griffin
Ricky Skaggs
Rodney Crowell
Roy Orbison
Ryan Adams
Steve Earle
Vern Gosdin
Warren Zevon
Willie Nelson

Emmylou Harris Quotes:
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Emmylou Harris Awards:

Grammy Awards:
2014 
Grammy Award for Best Americana Album for "Old Yellow Moon"
Best Americana Album (Old Yellow Moon) 2005 
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "The Connection"

1999
Billboard Music Awards Century Award 
Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "After the Gold Rush"

1998 
Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "Same Old Train"

1995
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Wrecking Ball 

1992 
Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for At the Ryman 

1988 
CMA Award for Vocal Event Of The Year 

1987 
Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Trio 
Academy Of Country Music (ACM) Award for Album Of The Year 

1986 
Edison Award for The ballad of Sally Rose Country & Western 
Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for Trio

1984
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "In My Dreams"

1980
CMA Award for Female Vocalist Of The Year 
Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again"

1979 
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for Blue Kentucky Girl 

1978 
Edison Award for Quarter moon in a ten cent town Country & Western 

1976
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for Elite Hotel 

Country Music Association Awards:
2001 Album of the Year (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
1980 Female Vocalist of the Year
1988 Vocal Event of the Year (Trio, with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)

Other honors:
VH1's 100 Most Influential Women in Rock and Roll (1998) – Number 22 out of 100

Billboard's Century Award recipient (1999) – inducted by Sarah McLachlan

CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music – No. 5 ranking (2002)

Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on February 12, 2008

Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music in 2009.