Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

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Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems Emmylou Harris, godmother of the Americana movement, is a phenomenon for any number of reasons, one of which is that she has has managed to conduct more than four decades of her remarkable career without a single misstep. While Harris has always been committed to honoring the roots of old-school, traditional country, she also expanded the music beyond its conservative lyrics and narrow melodic structures without abandoning its core themes of enduring love, family, and prideful sense of place. Throughout, she interpreted and wrote songs of integrity and emotional depth and resonance, surrounding her keening soprano with a Who's Who of players and collaborators, including Rodney Crowell, the McGarrigle Sisters, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Daniel Lanois, and Mark Knopfler. This unusual 4-CD compilation isn't a greatest-hits package, but rather a gathering of Harris's personal favorites, most of which have never appeared on other collections. Some of the most compelling tracks are special collaborations ("Jordan," with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash), previously unreleased live, studio, and demo tracks (the folky "Falling in a Deep Hole," circa 1970), and contributions to tribute projects (Townes Van Zandt's chilling "Snake Song"). Harris's reedy voice is one of the most empathetic instruments in all of popular music, and perhaps no other female performer of the genre has been able to capture the desperate, paralyzing sense of longing and loneliness as well as this greatly revered singer. That may be a red flag of warning for the Prozac generation, but this deeply satisfying set stands as a benchmark of 40 years of artistry, as well as an uncommonly soulful illumination of the human condition. --Alanna Nash

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Tracks
1Clocks (alternate version)
2The Angels Rejoiced Last Night (Gram Parsons)
3The Old Country Baptizing (Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels)
4Coats of Many Colors
5For No One
6Ooh Las Vegas
7Satan's Jewel Crown
8Tulsa Queen
9My Songbird
10Green Rolling Hills
11One Paper Kid with Willie Nelson
12Sorrow In The Wind
13Rough And Rocky
14Jordan
15Darkets Hour Is Just Before Dawn
16Ashes by Now
17How High The Moon
18Spanish Johnny with Waylon Jennings
19The Lst Cheaters Waltz
20Racing In The Streets
21Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
22The Sweethearts of the Rodeo with Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Vince Gill & Gail Davies
23When I Was Yours
24My Fathers House
25Bright Morning Stars
26When He Calls
27Lonely Street
28Brand New Dance
29Get Up John
30If I Could Be There
31Ballad Of A Runaway House
32Going Back To Harlan
33Sweet Old World
34All My Tears (Live)
35Prayer In Open D (Live)
36Bang The Drum Slowly
37Boy From Tupelo
38Lost Unto This World
39Man Is An Island
40Cup Of Kindness
41Falling In a Deep Hole
421917 (Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
43Palms of Victory (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, & Emmylou Harris)
44Softy and Tenderly (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
45My Dear Companion (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstatt & Emmylou Harris)
46Mary Danced with Soldiers (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
47I Don't ove You Much Do I (Guy Clark)
48All I Left Behind
49I Remember You (Steve Earle)
50Golden Ring with Linda Ronstadt and Anna & Kate McGarrigle
51Sonny (Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keanes, Mary Black)
52In The Garden
53Love Still Remains
54Snake Song
55Hobo's Lullaby
56Wondering
57Immigrant Eyes
58Juanita (Sheryl Crow & Emmylow Harris)
59She (Pretenders & Emmylou Harris)
60Sin City (Beck & Emmylou Harris)
61Wheels (The Seldom Scene)
62Beyond The Blue (Emmylou Harris & Patty Griffin)
63First In Line (Emmylou Harris & John Starling)
64Highway of Heartache
65ALone And Forsaken (Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler)
66Child of Mine
67Heaven Ain't Ready For You Yet
68Wish We Were Back In Missouri
69Mama's Hungry Eyes with Rodney Crowell
70Here We Are (George Jones & Emmylou Harris)
71Waltz Across Texas Tonight
72Snowin' On Raton
73Gone
74Don't Let Our Love Die
75The Pearl (Live)
76Wildwood Flower (Randy Scruggs with Emmylou Harris & Iris DeMent)
77Love And Happiness (Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris)
78When We're Gone, Long Gone (Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton)



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