Late Nite Music Club with Emmylou Harris: One of These Days
By David Neiwert Saturday Nov 22, 2008 8:00pmProbably my favorite Emmylou song -- though it's hard to choose out of so much greatness. It finished just a little ahead of "If I Needed You," but there's no good live version of that available.
This is from her appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in 1992 with her all-star band, the Nash Ramblers (featuring the amazing Sam Bush on mandolin). There's another live version of this with the Hot Band that actually sounds a little better audio-wise, but which isn't embeddable.
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Siren Song.
That is definitely steamy and sensual. I love it!
If you haven't seen it, it is very funny (and odd in a typical Coen Bros way) and has some great music!!
but I would love to see it, judging from that clip!
George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter. Weird, funny, and killer tunes.
I loved Yout Are My Sunshine (not on YouTube). It reminded me of my mom...it was one of her fav songs.
This is one of MY favs.
.. she certainly raised a fine daughter.
My mom is long gone...almost 30 years now. Thank you for your thoughts. That was very sweet.
An enduring female country singer that makes the current group pale in comparison. Emmylou, Bonnie and Nanci Griffith. So enjoyable.
MsJoanne,
I absolutely love that song. Hypnotic, if you will. Great pick.
I must admit to having a soft spot for Patsy Cline.
Crazy, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Qq8UuvrUk
was one of a kind. And thank goodness for kd lang, too. Two ladies with serious pipes.
but Emmylou Harris is very talented. This is a lovely song.
How are you this evening?
Doing fine ... just getting ready to listen to Siren Song!
How are things with you?
but I am back in Chicagoland and freezing my ass off. I always turn my heat down to 55 when I leave and jeebus my house is cold!! I hope it warms up soon. I just got back so I didn't get the pooch yet...where is that warm bod when I need her??
BURRRRRRR!!!
and just a little bit of snow so we're lucky.
You don't have your doggie with you? No wonder you feel cold. Nothing like the warmth of your favourite furry pal to warm the cockles!
I miss her terribly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-A4QFHZBA
Pretty amazing lyrics, eh?
Nice pick. I had totally forgotten about that song.
Tim Buckley - song to the siren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89AKTkGyeM&fe...
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM
From the film "Candy" - Song to the siren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHMR_PoOYMY&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8JoMhgjRw
(imho, decent sound but this is not a good vid portrayal of this classic but apparantly the others keep getting taken down)
Simply beautiful.
Arlo Guthrie & Emmylou Harris - Deportee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pLlZ1M82DY
Emmylou Harris "Hickory Wind" Gram Parsons song live 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCCAZgI_hrE&fe...
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - In My Hour of Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LtJ7AKUrc&fe...
Love Hurts - Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVl8pNb1LS0&fe...
Emmylou harris - Mister Sandman ( Orginale Version )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0zPw_G93Sc
Emmylou is wonderful.
Thinking about the definiton of a siren led me to thinking of this.
I've been trying to find the song "Lorelei" forever on video. I had it on tape in my early teens and that tape is long gone.. but I'm not sure if it is by the Waterboys or the Pogues.
Just found it.
the pogues - lorelei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfPlBBx0KIY
There is a song that I believe is done by the Waterboys that directly quotes a poem by Yeats and if anyone can find this, I'd be so thrilled.
and I really enjoyed the video. The Pogues make wonderful music indeed.
Calgary Lady, you are the sweetest thang going. What would we all do without your delicate appreciation and simple kindness? Just love ya.
L.G. very good linkage. Still listening.
In spades!
I admire you. I haven't posted for a long time but I've been reading your comments and your blog. Fiesty woman, I toast thee.
Cheers
That's very sweet of you to say.
it's kind of obvious ... I'm here almost every night!
Thanks for all of the excellent tuneage.
This song appeared on "Elite Hotel" an album I got when I was in college in the 70's. Emmy Lou Harris is one of those remarkable women who will be beautiful her whole life. I would marry her in a minute with the hope that I would hear her humming to herself around the house. She is amazing. And she sang with Bob Dylan on "Desire."
Thanks sis, for sending me this.
The Waterboys: Stolen Child (can this be called sampling? he, he)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-oJKYIinQ
William Butler Yeats - The Stolen Child
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/816/
Thank you to Heidi and sphinx. You both have impeccable taste!
Time for zeds now. Good night to all.
Emmylou Harris & The Chieftains - Lambs on the green hills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vagPiI16PJo
to you, lafingas. Sleep well.
Loreena McKennitt's version of Yeat's Stolen Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVcLBUGDDw&fe...
And that's enough of that genre for this girl...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVn6b7DdpA
GNA
That's what you think.
There are 350 Emmylou Harris songs available for free listening
at lala.com
Enjoy
thanks for the memories and boy does that bring back some! back in college i had an old shack out in the woods i rented for 60 bucks a month. no one around anywhere. i used to put elite hotel on full blast and go about doing whatever it was i was doing, cleaning, studying, whatever, completely naked. she had this way of making you feel so free. i will always have a special place in my heart for emmylou. there just has never been another voice like hers ever. i'm so glad they have re-released elite hotel, it was awesome! i especially liked the one you played here plus "feelin' single, seein' double" and "till i gain control again" are also great. well, the entire album is great! thanks again :)
I have been a fan of this woman for so long, have most of her work on LP 33's, and later CD's. There are so many songs where her crystalline, almost sad tremolo rings out and chills your spine.
And yet, Emmylou was not raised as a country person, like her contemporaries Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, but each had an understanding and an appreciation of the music of rural America. One of my most treasured albums is "The Trio" with Emmylou, Dolly and the great Linda Ronstadt. This is a pure Country voice, back when you could tell each singer by the sound of his or her voice, not this homogenized crap called Country Music today.
This is back when country music told the stories about poor and underprivileged Americans instead of stirring them up with hatred and pro-war propaganda like Lee Greenwood and Tobey Keith.
Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" came out and was a hit in 1984- three years _before_ "Trio" was released in 1987. And Toby Keith certainly has some jingoistic lyrics, but he's also a vocal life-long Democrat who took a lot of abuse from the right for supporting Obama.
There's no actual downward spiral here- people in the 80s said the same thing as you're saying now. And country fans in the 60s said the same thing too. Every generation feels that the current music is "inauthentic" compared to that of previous generations. To say that country music was less homogeneous in the 80s than today is to focus only on the Rascal Flatts and Emerson Drives of today and ignore the Restless Hearts and Alabamas of the 80s (I loved those groups back in the day, but there's no denying that they were pop industry machines). And if you don't think that contemporary country music addresses the concerns of "poor and underprivileged" Americans far more than any other branch of popular music does, then you just haven't listened to it...
When Emmy Lou Harris and Don Williams did "If I Needed You" they never met in the studio at the same time and their two singing parts were later mixed together.
I would have loved to have seen them perform this song.
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I love Emmylou Harris but I prefer "If I needed you" performed by Townes himself.
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