A couple of weeks ago there was an Emmylou Harris night on BBC4, and this evening I finally got around to catching up with it. One of the programs was a compilation of clips of ELH at the BBC down the years, and it included a clip which I hadn't seen since it was first broadcast. Steve Earle, fresh from rehab, duetting with Emmylou on 'Goodbye'.
Earle was fairly fresh from rehab at the time, and about to enter a purple patch which lasted for the next 7 or 8 years (his last LP is rather dull, but Train a Comin and Feel Alright are blinders) and Emmylou had covered the song on her Wrecking Ball album.
I remember watching the show at the time, shocked by the pudgy and greasy Earle, who last time we saw him was lean and long haired, very different. I saw him live two or three times very soon afterwards and he was magnetic. Then a couple of years ago I saw Emmylou Harris at the Concert Hall in Nottingham, she was wonderful, and her band was fantastic. Never let people tell you that country music is made by rednecks and truck drivers...not all of it anyway.
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El Corazón is still probably my favourite, though I also like The Mountain - overlong Del McCoury set aside the RFH gig was extraordinary.
I'm considering a night of the spring tour for a Gentlemen's Evening in honour of my 40th Birthday - London and Cambridge are both on school nights, but Belfast and Berlin are both on weekends.
Sounds like a good plan, keep me informed...
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