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Emmylou
Harris looks like a hippie, but don't be fooled: She's totally goth.
In her 40-year career she's infused her music with the stark melancholy
of Appalachian ballads and old-timey Americana. But here, she
practically fetishizes woe, mourning lost love and lost time, even
singing a literal funereal song on the gently swaying "Not Enough,"
about a dead lover's burial. Harris' clearwater soprano sounds lovely
floating above acoustic guitars in "Gold" and Merle Haggard's "Kern
River." But the gauzy country-folk production, full of keening pedal
steel and swooning close harmonies, congeals into roots-music kitsch
— the soundtrack to a slow pan across a sepia-toned photograph in a
Ken Burns documentary.
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Track List
- Shores of White Sand
- Hold On
- Moon Song
- Broken Man's Lament
- Gold
- How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower
- All That You Have is Your Soul
- Take That Ride
- Old Five and Dimers Like Me
- Kern River
- Not Enough
- Sailing Round the Room
- Beyond the Great Divide
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