Salon.com > Ernest McLeod http://www.salon.com Mon, 28 May 2012 15:05:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Emmylou Harris http://www.salon.com/1999/10/21/harris/ http://www.salon.com/1999/10/21/harris/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/10/21/harris If Emmylou Harris has attained living legend status, it is as an enduring
queen of country music. It's a deserved reputation if you strip away her recent
achievements, which have little to do with country music yet continue
unbroken the thread running through her nearly 30-year career. Harris'
real talent -- only fully revealed in the past five years -- has been her
ability to thoroughly reinvent herself while remaining true to her original
sensibility. Today, by force and choice, she has given over her
country crown to the vacuous likes of Shania Twain. But she remains what
she's always essentially been: the high-plains diva. The diva of loss.

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