Saturday, September 23, 2006
Country star Emmylou Harris brings flair for harmony to Wharton
The Lansing State Journal
Emmylou Harris reaches the Wharton Center tonight, bearing a sturdy reputation.
She's been a pioneer. She's trampled borders and boundaries.
And that wasn't what you'd have expected in her teen years.
"I wasn't much fun," Harris recalled by phone. "I was a good little girl. I obeyed the rules."
Maybe that's natural in a military family. Harris was valedictorian, getting straight A's for five straight years.
"Emmylou Harris did what had been previously unthinkable," Robert Oermann wrote in "A Century of Country Music" (TV Books, 1999). "She united hip country-rock fans and hard-line country conservatives."
Read the article
Lansing State Journal
Emmylou Harris reaches the Wharton Center tonight, bearing a sturdy reputation.
She's been a pioneer. She's trampled borders and boundaries.
And that wasn't what you'd have expected in her teen years.
"I wasn't much fun," Harris recalled by phone. "I was a good little girl. I obeyed the rules."
Maybe that's natural in a military family. Harris was valedictorian, getting straight A's for five straight years.
"Emmylou Harris did what had been previously unthinkable," Robert Oermann wrote in "A Century of Country Music" (TV Books, 1999). "She united hip country-rock fans and hard-line country conservatives."
Read the article
Lansing State Journal
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