Emmylou Harris News

All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. Jay Orr talks with Mary Martin during the Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum interview at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

It's been a busy year for award-winning singer/songwriter/activist Emmylou Harris.

After many years of Old Crow Medicine show performances and his longtime collaboration with partner Gillian Welch , it's hard to believe that A Friend of a Friend is Dave Rawlings first solo album.

When singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris plays Macky Auditorium on Nov. 20, it will be a bit of a homecoming.

A folk music concert held outside the cozy confines of the folk fest is a good test of just how popular this stuff is in Edmonton.

Sheryl Crow, k.d. lang and James Taylor are among artists who will perform at a ceremony in which Canadian rocker Neil Young is named the MusiCares Person of the Year during Grammy Awards weekend.

When: Thursday at 8 p.m. Where: Winspear Centre Tickets: $65, available at the Winspear box office, 780-428-1414 Songwriter or interpreter:who has the most artistic credibility? It might seem like a silly question, but there are people out there who wonder whether performers can ever be taken seriously if they only cover someone else's material.

A group of music figures has begun a campaign against mountaintop coal removal. The campaign, Music Saves Mountains, is sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Gibson Foundation.

When I interviewed Miranda Lambert for an upcoming feature about her new album, Revolution , our conversation ventured to her wide-ranging taste in music.

JAMES Burton will play his only European show as part of Wirral's International Guitar Festival later this month.

The event will start with a musical slice of Americana served up on banjo, fiddle and bass by a Dalton-based trio of civilians.

In a celebrity-obsessed world, the celebrities we obsess over the most are those tragic rock icons who blazed a trail but died way too young -- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon, Kurt Cobain.

Amidst the costume preparations and pumpkin carving, warm up for Halloween with some time out on the town.

The 62nd annual Original Ozark Folk Festival will offer more than a dozen seasoned folk performers and relative newcomers on Nov.

Emmylou Harris performing at the Michigan Theater on Friday night. Melanie Maxwell Emmylou Harris has a catalog full of songs to choose from when she hits the stage each night, songs that span not only the annals of country music, but cross over into contemporary folk and rock.

Brooklyn Philharmonic conductor Robert Spano will also assume the reins of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this fall, putting the maestro in the enviable position of simultaneously running two of America's most up-and-coming orchestras.

Recording artist Lyle Lovett can talk for hours about the musicians he respects and attempts to emulate; men like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark.

Emmylou Harris has been one of my favorite singers since the 1970s. However, in recent years, her concerts have become more and more downbeat as her music has evolved into introspective art-rock and low-key folk/bluegrass. Her low-energy performance Sunday at Mystic Lake Casino felt more like a recital than a concert.

Emmylou Harris was a silver-haired spirit of the Earth, like watching a mysterious, snow-covered mountaintop in the distance.

Country music songstress Natasha James and band perform Tequila Time' and other songs at the Brewery.