Kris Kristofferson, Daniel Lanois, Sheryl Crow and Mary Chapin Carpenter are among the artists paying tribute on a new live concert DVD release.
On November 18, Rounder records will release The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration, being the record of a star-studded concert recorded on January 10, 2015.
On that evening, artists including Kris Kristofferson, Daniel Lanois, Sheryl Crow, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Mavis Staples, Lucinda Williams, and Emmylou Harris herself gathered at Washington, DC’s DAR Constitution Hall to celebrate four decades of music-making by Emmylou.
Writing in Rolling Stone about the celebration concert, Jonathan Bernstein observed that “The breadth and variety of the evening's lineup — scrappy and elegant, mainstream and indie, legendary and freshman — reflected the many artistic dividing lines that Harris has straddled throughout her entire career.”
The concert film and companion audio recordings include versions of Born to Run, Red Dirt Girl, Boulder to Birmingham, Two More Bottles of Wine, Till I Gain Control Again and Sin City.
A 13-time Grammy winner – including a 2014 Grammy for Best Americana Album, an award she shared with Rodney Crowell – and a Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris’ contributions as a singer and songwriter span 40 years and she has won three Country Music Association Awards and two Americana Awards.
Emmylou has been a frequent visitor to Ireland through the years, and has performed songs in collaboration with Mary Black, Dolores Keane and The Chieftains on different occasions. She has recorded more than 25 albums, which have sold over 15 million copies. In 2008, Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
