5 Emmylou Harris

Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town

REPRISE 1978, RHINO REMASTER 2004 £7.73 You Say: “My personal alltime favourite… required listening for any serious real country lover.” Dirk Weiss, MOJO Facebook A tad over-polished, though also irresistible, as heard on track two: her rambunctious and radical re-imagining of Delbert McClinton’s Two More Bottles Of Wine, whose portrait of hard times in LA rings just as true now as it did then, and remains a core part of her oeuvre. In a wholly different way, another note of raw emotion is sounded by her acoustic duet with Willie Nelson on Guy Clark’s take on One Paper Kid: a sparsely-worded glimpse of a life cut short that instantly evokes Nelson’s native Texas, and the well of melancholia on which great country music always draws.