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Emmylou Harris
Solo artist Birmingham United States
Emmylou Harris is an artist from Birmingham. Emmylou Harris has 27 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Red Dirt Girl”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #42. The station that charted Emmylou Harris most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 13 appearances.
Emmylou Harris, born in Birmingham in 1947, came up through folk music, cutting a folk album after a move to New York City in the '60s, before Gram Parsons found her and steered her toward country rock. After his death in 1973 she signed with Reprise, and Pieces of the Sky, her second album, arrived in 1975 to acclaim and sales alike; its "Boulder to Birmingham" is one of the most heartbroken-sounding records of the decade, sung in that pure, trembling voice. With her Hot Band behind her, she spent the late '70s and early '80s stacking up country number ones and bridging country and rock crowds in concert, and in 1987 she joined Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt for Trio.
Then she changed shape. Wrecking Ball, in 1995, sent her somewhere darker and more atmospheric, and its title track drifts and aches like a storm moving over a swamp. Red Dirt Girl, in 2000, on Nonesuch, went further still: a set of mostly her own songs, and the title track has the dusty, windblown feel of a back-road memory.
The honors have piled up: a Country Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year in 1980, 13 Grammy Awards, the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Polar Music Prize in 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Emmylou Harris on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Dirt Girl | 6 | #42 | – | – | |
| 2 | Boulder To Birmingham | 6 | #124 | – | – | |
| 3 | Sweet Old World | 2 | #210 | – | – | |
| 4 | Deeper Well | 2 | #428 | – | – | |
| 5 | I Don't Wanna Talk About It Now | 2 | #530 | – | – | |
| 6 | Wrecking Ball | 3 | #352 | – | – | |
| 7 | Orphan Girl | 1 | #345 | – | – | |
| 8 | One Big Love | 1 | #687 | – | – | |
| 9 | O Evangeline | 1 | #831 | – | – | |
| 10 | Where Will I Be | 1 | #839 | – | – | |
| 11 | Michelangelo | 1 | #880 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Emmylou Harris as a guest.
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