10 Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris

Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions

asylum 1999, £9.99 You Say: “The best of her team-up albums… has an intimacy the Trio recordings seem to lack (sorry Dolly).” Bryan Williams, via e-mail From her time with Parsons onwards, Harris has enthusiastically blended her voice with others, and any one of a handful of collaborative albums could have made this list, from two recent(ish) albums with Rodney Crowell, to the two Trio LPs she made alongside Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt. But try this one, made with the latter: an unadorned, close-up, reflective work that sometimes suggests a companion piece to Red Dirt Girl. On Raise The Dead, Harris pays tribute to Hank Williams, Sam Cooke, Bill Monroe. It’s a gauche idea on paper, perhaps – but predictably, it soars.