With Gram Parsons: Big Mouth Blues

Gram Parson discovered Emmylou Harris singing in a Washington, D. C. folk club. He asked her to record with him. Videos of Parsons, who who died in 1973 at age 26, are rare. Here he he is with The Flying Burrito Brothers, singing "Christine's Tune" with Chris Hillman:

Luxury Liner (1977)

Click here for a review of Luxury Liner and a track list.

Emmylou Harris was one of the first artists to record "Pancho and Lefty,"


Townes Van Zandt wrote Pancho and Lefty:

(from The Daily Galaxy)

I Ain't Living Long Like This

From Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (1978), performed her with Spyboy (featuring Buddy Miller on lead guitar):


With the Hot Band:


Written by Rodney Crowell, "I Ain't Living Long Like This," appeared on his first album called Ain't Living Long Like This (1977). Rodney was an early member of the Hot Band; Emmylou recorded a number of his songs including this one. Rodney Crowell:

With Buddy Miller: Love Hurts

The incomparable Everly Brothers first recorded the Felice and Boudeleaux Bryant song in 1960:

Nazareth had an unlikely heavy metal hit with "Love Hurts":

Hard Times

With the Kate and Anna McGarrigle, singing Stephen Foster's "Hard Times."



Thanks to Roy for recommending this performance. For more about Stephen Foster, who wrote "Hard Times," click here.