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Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years

Emmylou Harris - Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years Audio CD

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Band: Emmylou Harris
Title: Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years
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Release Date: 2001-05-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Too Far Gone 2: If I Could Only Win Your Love 3: Boulder to Birmingham 4: Together Again 5: Here, There and Everywhere 6: One of These Days 7: Sweet Dreams (Live) 8: (You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie 9: Making Believe 10: Easy from Now On 11: To Daddy 12: Two More Bottles of Wine 13: Save the Last Dance for Me 14: Beneath Still Waters 15: Blue Kentucky Girl 16: Wayfaring Stranger 17: That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (with Roy Orbison) 18: The Boxer 19: Precious Love 20: Fools Thin Air 21: Mister Sandman 22: Colors of Your Heart 23: If I Needed You (with Don Williams) 24: Tennessee Rose 25: Born to Run 26: Another Pot o' Tea 27: I'm Movin' On (Live) 28: (Lost His Love) On Our Last Date (Live) 29: So Sad (to Watch Good Love Go Bad) (Live) 30: Maybe Tonight 31: Drivin' Wheel 32: In My Dreams 33: Pledging My Love 34: Someone Like You 35: White Line 36: Rhythm Guitar 37: Timberline 38: I Had My Heart Set on You 39: Today I Started Loving You Again 40: To Know Him is to Love Him (with Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt) 41: Heartbreak Hill 42: Heaven Only Knows 43: I Still Miss Someone 44: Wheels of Love

Emmylou Harris is a legend
Her voice is so very beautiful and filled with so much emotion. Emmylou Harris has always been a favorite. She can take any song and make it her own and if you have ever had her music, you can also appreciate her most wonderful talent for lyrics. I adore her. She is my most favorite, with Eva Cassidy being right there also. If you do not own this cd, and you love Emmylou; what are you waiting for?

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A great overview, but...
If anything, it just makes me want more. There is nothing on this collection that I don't like. Emmylou always sounds good; because she has great taste in the material she chooses to record, she always surrounds herself with the best musicians, and then there's that voice (It's like hot-buttered butter), yeah, I'm a fan! I do wish there was more from Evangeline, especially since it's not available on CD. I wish Til I Can Gain Control Again was here. I'd love it if Racing In The Streets was included. There are other songs I would have included if I were allowed to create my perfect Emmylou Anthology, but, to paraphrase Spencer Tracy's observation of Katharine Hepburn, "What's there is Cherse!" .

Great collection, one clunker
Emmylou has the ability to take others songs and make them her own, but with "The Boxer", Emmylou sounds silly. As I wrote on the Roses in the Snow review, Emmy Lou's great voice does not fit the great Paul Simon song "The Boxer". Her beautiful female voice does not sound like she is "just a poor boy" or that she would get the "come-on from the whores on 7th Avenue" (or someone who would take some comfort there). Of all the great songs on the Roses album, that they picked this very flawed cover song to include on this collection is a shame. Where is the song "Roses in the Snow"? Oh yeah, they want you to buy that album too.

Otherwise, this really is a best of Emnmylou anthology and worth the fairly hefty price. Also, it has alot of songs that are on her Warner label years that are no longer available. I think with this collection, Luxury Liner, Roses and Bluebird you will have a fairly complete essential Emmylou collection. From the Warner years, I would like to see Emmylou 13 and Ballad of Sally Rose remastered and re-released sometime. .

Ya Gotta Love Emmylou
I would have added "Cimmaron", "Pancho and Lefty", "My Songbird" and a few others to this set, and left others out. As with any CD collection, you are going to get a lot of great music and some that just doesn't please you. I guess it all comes down to personal tastes. Still, there is some great music on these discs, and the set is a very good value.

A versatile and classy performer
Her music covered a wide variety of styles, but each album had its own style, although the changes in style became even more dramatic in the nineties. Emmylou has always been a singer that focused on albums. This compilation brings together tracks from all those differently styled albums from the mid-seventies to the late eighties. If you are familiar with her more recent music via albums like Wrecking ball and Red dirt girl but not her earlier music, I must warn you that this is a country music anthology.

During the period covered by this compilation, Emmylou had many hits on the American country charts including five solo number one hits, all cover versions and all included here. They were Together again (Buck Owens), Sweet dreams (Patsy Cline), Two more bottles of wine (Delbert McClinton), Beneath still waters (George Jones) and a live recording of Lost his love on our last date (Floyd Cramer). Emmylou also had a number one hit with To know him is to love him (a cover of the fifties pop hit by the Teddy Bears), which she recorded with her friends Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt and which is also included here. We believe in happy endings, a duet with Earl Thomas Conley, also reached number one but you have to buy Emmylou's Duets album to get that - it's not here.

Emmylou had many other big country hits with cover versions, including If I could only win your love (Louvin brothers), Here there and everywhere (Beatles), which was a minor UK pop hit, You never can tell C'Est la vie (Chuck Berry), Save the last dance for me (Drifters), Blue Kentucky girl (Loretta Lynn) and The boxer (Simon and Garfunkel).

Dolly Parton wrote To Daddy and recorded it for her 1976 album All I can do, but Emmylou heard it and recorded it herself. When Dolly heard Emmylou's version, she substituted another song for her own album, although Dolly's version was eventually released on a compilation CD many years later. Thus, Emmylou's version, included here, is the first one the public heard.

Another notable feature of Emmylou's career is the vast number of duets that she has recorded, though the only ones here (apart from the Trio track) are That loving you feeling again (with Roy Orbison) and If I needed you (with Don Williams).

In the early years, it was rare for Emmylou to write songs, but she co-wrote Boulder to Birmingham, one of her earliest successes. She wrote more as the years went by, particularly on the concept album Ballad of Sally Rose, an album she co-wrote with Paul Kennerley and which is represented here by Rhythm guitar, White line and Timberline, but she didn't really write much until the nineties - after the period covered by this anthology.

This is a great introduction to Emmylou's music of the seventies and eighties for any country music fans new to it.

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