The box set is finally coming out on September 18, 2007, after a delay of nearly a year!
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Emmylou Harris Prepping Boxed Set, New Album
June 01, 2007, 12:25 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
It has been four years since Emmylou Harris' last studio album, but patient fans will be rewarded in the coming months with two new releases, Billboard.com can reveal.
First up is an 80-song boxed set due Sept. 18 via Rhino, which features two discs of off-the-beaten-path studio work and two additional CDs of rarities, many of them previously unreleased.
"For the most part, none of these songs have ever been on a compilation before," Harris tells Billboard.com. "They're kind of favorites -- I call them my orphans, songs that maybe I didn't even perform that much but I loved enough to record in the studio. They didn't quite fit either the Hot Band or whatever I was doing. Things like 'Coat of Many Colors,' which was one of my favorite songs of all time, or 'Ballad of a Runaway Horse' and '1917.'"
Also included are several unreleased recordings with her Trio, which also featured Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt. "There's an outtake from the aborted Trio album that we did in 1978, a Carter Family song called 'Palms of Victory' that's just live off the floor," Harris says. "There's not even a solo on it -- it's just the band and the three women singing and I sound like I'm channeling Sara Carter. I wish -- in my dreams!"
The second two discs boast numerous tracks Harris has recorded for tribute albums to such acts as Gram Parsons, Merle Haggard and Townes Van Zandt, as well as the original demo for "All I Left Behind" with Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
Harris put her next studio effort on hold to finish the boxed set, but is making progress on a new Nonesuch album with assistance from the McGarrigle sisters and Seldom Scene lead singer John Starling. Harris duets with the latter on "Old Five and Dimers" ("I finally decided that I was old enough to cut that song, reaching the grand ole age of 60," she laughs).
"It's kind of a combination of some of my own songs, some songs that I've wanted to record for a long time and some new things that I came across," she offers of the effort. "You'll get both Emmylou the interpreter and Emmylou the songwriter."
Harris, who will also tour heavily into the fall, has recently recorded guest spots for Parton's next studio album, an Anne Murray duets album and old friend Danny Flowers' "Tools for the Soul."
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. DISC 1: 1. Clocks - (alternate take)
2. Angels Rejoiced Last Night, The - (with Gram Parsons)
3. Old Country Baptizing, The - (with Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels)
4. Coat Of Many Colors
5. For No One
6. Ooh Las Vegas
7. Satan's Jewel Crown
8. Tulsa Queen
9. My Songbird
10. Green Rolling Hills
11. One Paper Kid - (with Willie Nelson)
12. Sorrow In the Wind
13. Rough And Rocky
14. Jordan - (with Johnny Cash)
15. Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
16. Ashes By Now - (with Dr. John)
17. How High the Moon
18. Spanish Johnny - (with Waylon Jennings)
19. Last Cheaters Waltz, The
20. Racing In the Streets
21. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
DISC 2: 1. Sweetheart Of the Rodeo, The - (with Linda Ronstadt/Dolly Parton/Vince Gill/Gail Davies)
2. When I Was Yours
3. My Father's House
4. Bright Morning Stars
5. When He Calls
6. Lonely Street
7. Brand New Dance
8. Get Up John
9. If I Could Be There
10. Ballad Of a Runaway Horse
11. Going Back To Harlan
12. Sweet Old World
13. All My Tears
14. Prayer In Open D - (Live)
15. Bang the Drum Slowly
16. Boy From Tupelo
17. Lost Unto This World
18. Man Is An Island
19. Cup Of Kindness
DISC 3: 1. Falling In a Deep Hole - (previously unreleased)
2. 1917 - (with Linda Ronstadt)
3. Palms Of Victory - (previously unreleased, with Linda Ronstadt/Dolly Parton)
4. Softly And Tenderly - (previously unreleased, with Linda Ronstadt/Dolly Parton)
5. My Dear Companion - (with Linda Ronstadt/Dolly Parton)
6. Mary Danced With Soldiers - (with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
7. I Don't Love You Much Do I - (with Guy Clark)
8. All I Left Behind - (previously unreleased)
9. I Remember You - (with Steve Earle)
10. Golden Ring - (with Linda Ronstadt/Anna McGarrigle/Kate McGarrigle)
11. Sonny - (with Dolores Keane/Mary Black)
12. In the Garden - (previously unreleased)
13. Love Still Remains
14. Snake Song
15. Hobo's Lullaby
16. Wondering
17. Immigrant Eyes - (previously unreleased)
18. Juanita - (with Sheryl Crow)
19. She - (with Pretenders)
20. Sin City - (with Beck)
21. Wheels - (with The Seldom Scene)
DISC 4: 1. Beyond the Blue - (with Patty Griffin)
2. First In Line - (previously unreleased, with John Starling)
3. Highway Of Heartaches - (previously unreleased, with Carl Jackson)
4. Alone And Forsaken - (with Mark Knopfler)
5. Child Of Mine
6. Heaven Ain't Ready For You Yet
7. Wish We Were Back In Missouri
8. Mama's Hungry Eyes
9. Here We Are - (with George Jones)
10. Waltz Across Texas Tonight - (previously unreleased)
11. Showin' On Raton - (previously unreleased)
12. Gone - (previously unreleased)
13. Don't Let Your Love Die - (previously unreleased)
14. Pearl, The - (Live)
15. Wildwood Flower - (with Iris DeMent/Randy Scruggs)
16. Love And Happiness - (with Mark Knopfler)
17. When We're Gone, Long Gone - (with Linda Ronstadt/Dolly Parton)
DISC 5:DVD
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