Emmylou Harris News

When: Thursday at 8 p.m. Where: Winspear Centre Tickets: $65, available at the Winspear box office, 780-428-1414 Songwriter or interpreter:who has the most artistic credibility? It might seem like a silly question, but there are people out there who wonder whether performers can ever be taken seriously if they only cover someone else's material.

A group of music figures has begun a campaign against mountaintop coal removal. The campaign, Music Saves Mountains, is sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Gibson Foundation.

When I interviewed Miranda Lambert for an upcoming feature about her new album, Revolution , our conversation ventured to her wide-ranging taste in music.

JAMES Burton will play his only European show as part of Wirral's International Guitar Festival later this month.

The event will start with a musical slice of Americana served up on banjo, fiddle and bass by a Dalton-based trio of civilians.

In a celebrity-obsessed world, the celebrities we obsess over the most are those tragic rock icons who blazed a trail but died way too young -- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon, Kurt Cobain.

Amidst the costume preparations and pumpkin carving, warm up for Halloween with some time out on the town.

The 62nd annual Original Ozark Folk Festival will offer more than a dozen seasoned folk performers and relative newcomers on Nov.

Emmylou Harris performing at the Michigan Theater on Friday night. Melanie Maxwell Emmylou Harris has a catalog full of songs to choose from when she hits the stage each night, songs that span not only the annals of country music, but cross over into contemporary folk and rock.

Brooklyn Philharmonic conductor Robert Spano will also assume the reins of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this fall, putting the maestro in the enviable position of simultaneously running two of America's most up-and-coming orchestras.

Recording artist Lyle Lovett can talk for hours about the musicians he respects and attempts to emulate; men like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark.

Emmylou Harris has been one of my favorite singers since the 1970s. However, in recent years, her concerts have become more and more downbeat as her music has evolved into introspective art-rock and low-key folk/bluegrass. Her low-energy performance Sunday at Mystic Lake Casino felt more like a recital than a concert.

Emmylou Harris was a silver-haired spirit of the Earth, like watching a mysterious, snow-covered mountaintop in the distance.

Country music songstress Natasha James and band perform Tequila Time' and other songs at the Brewery.

A decade of nonstop touring has paid off for Memphis' mighty twang-rock band Lucero , which graduated to Universal Records for its new disc, "1372 Overton Park," named for the address of its rehearsal space .

I don't follow mainstream country, so I have no idea what's happening in Nashville.

With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America's most important musical movements of the past three decades.

Beauty is not always a simple thing. Emmylou Harris is a creature of silver-haired elegance who backs her many notable musician friends with haunting harmonies.

Man-about-Ballard Brady Sprouse offered to commit his opinions on local albums to digital ink for Sound on the Sound, and we graciously accepted.

Emmylou Harris is among the artists set to appear on today's inaugural Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Cafe show, beginning at 7 p.m. The show is sold out, but it'll be broadcast on WSM, AM-650, and simulcast online at www.wsmonline.com. This week's show also features esteemed singer-songwriters Pam Rose and Mary Ann Kennedy, as well ...