#35 -- Emmylou Harris

Here's my hat tip to Country, featuring a performer who has collaborated with a surprising number of acts yet to be mentioned in our Mighty 55 countdown.  Would you believe nearly a third of the 34 remaining acts have collaborated or appeared with Emmylou Harris?

That's country for you.  A welcoming collaboration.

My own awakening to country music came with the album, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", featuring Grand Ol' Opry stars.  During our house's construction, in the 1980s, that record was on most days, once the stereo system was installed, as we house painters and carpenters all loved it.

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Each band or performer is graded on four things:
  1.  Innovation
  2.  Influence in my life--as a typical American
  3.  Integrity: the band's approach to music (just making a buck or honing a craft?)  
  4.  Immortality--am I, a typical American--still eager to hear their music

10/4/8/3 = 25 out of a perfect 40

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A favorite..., plus: Harris' Evangeline, which she originally recorded with The Band.  A recent album of hers I purchased was 2006's All The Roadrunning, a collaboration with Mark Knopfler.