Also all accoustic (well, except for the bass) is her 80s album Angel Band.
It’s a collection of hymns. Absolutely beautiful.
I’ve seen her perform a number of times, with various backing musicians. I agree that the Nash Ramblers (the band on the At the Ryman album) is one of her finest backing bands. I saw her perform with them in, of all places, Paris.
Probably plenty. There are any number of singers who sell lots of records who are not as physically beautiful as Ronstadt or Harris.
But what’s really sad and pathetic is that Linda Ronstadt might not get a second look if she were just starting out today. No boob job, no hair extensions/additions/whatever, she never looked like she spent four hours a day in the gym, no makeup that looks like it was put on with an air brush, and so on and so on.
Our standards of beauty have gotten *really *screwed up. And that’s true for men as well. Look at any of the muscle-bound actors in comic book movies. Then go look at a picture of the Village People in their heyday. They look like scrawny little dudes. Back then, they were the epitome of physical attractiveness (at least for gay men).
This is not healthy.
I posted this in another thread. In the 80’s when Tanya Tucker had just switched from her wholesome look to country glam, she was playing up to the camera when the announcer deliberately introduced Emmylou as “Country’s Miss America!” The look on Tucker’s face was priceless!
Steve Miller [officially Steve Miller Band] has another song called “Heart Like a Wheel” on his 1981 album “Circle of Love.”
I had the extreme good fortune to be at the Red Fox Inn in Bethesda, MD one night in late 1973 when Emmylou was performing. I was mesmerized by her voice and have been in love with her ever since. After that I heard her on a couple of bluegrass radio stations, but didn’t know she made the ‘big time’ until I stumbled on the Luxury Liner album a few years later.