6 Emmylou Harris

Roses In The Snow

WARNER BROS 1980, RHINO REMASTER 2002 £5.99 You Say: “Seemed strange and antique at the time, but as has happened more than once, Emmylou was right and I was wrong. A wonderful album.” Phil James, via e-mail 1979’s Blue Kentucky Girl found Harris celebrating the glories of pre-1970s country, but its successor went even further back: to the kind of bluegrass music that would return to the culture 20 years later, with the release of the Coen Brothers’ movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and its mega-selling soundtrack (on which Harris sang alongside Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch). In that sense, these 10 tracks were remarkably prescient, but also perfectly rendered: the version of The Carter Family’s Gold Watch And Chain with Linda Ronstadt and Ricky Skaggs justifies the whole exercise on its own.