Washington
23 June 2008
It's been five years since Emmylou Harris put out a new studio album. As VOA's Mary Morningstar tells us, the 61-year-old Country-folk singerhad to work around many other projects to finish her latest collection,"All I Intended To Be."
Emmylou Harris recorded several coversongs for her new album, All I Intended To Be. They include "AllThat You Have Is Your Soul," which Tracy Chapman wrote for her 1989 Crossroads album. Emmylou also added songs written by Merle Haggard,Billy Joe Shaver and Patty Griffin, among others.
Harris says,"Most of my career I've been a finder of songs, a gatherer of songs, sothis showcases, in part, that side of what I do." But, she alsocontributed six original songs to the project. One is "Gold," whichfeatures Dolly Parton and Vince Gill on harmony vocals.
"Gold"is a song Emmylou wrote more than a decade ago. She says she wanted toinclude it on her 1995 Grammy-winning album "Wrecking Ball," but itseemed too Country-influenced for the folk collection.
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Emmyloubegan working on All I Intended To Be four years ago. She recordedmost of the tracks at the Nashville studio of producer Brian Ahern. Brian is Emmylou's ex-husband, who produced many of her early albums.
Duringthe five years away from her own career, Harris recorded an album withformer Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler and performed tours with ElvisCostello and Neil Young.