EMMYLOU HARRIS : ANTHOLOGY - THE WARNER / REPRISE YEARS

 

Disc One (76:20)

  1. Too Far Gone
  2. If I Could Only Win Your Love
  3. Boulder to Birmingham
  4. Together Again
  5. Here, There and Everywhere
  6. One of These Days
  7. Sweet Dreams
  8. (You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie
  9. Making Believe
  10. Easy from Now On
  11. To Daddy
  12. Two More Bottles of Wine
  13. Save the Last Dance for Me
  14. Beneath Still Waters
  15. Blue Kentucky Girl
  16. Wayfaring Stranger
  17. That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (with Roy Orbison)
  18. The Boxer
  19. Precious Love
  20. Fools Thin Air
  21. Mister Sandman
  22. Colors of Your Heart

Disc Two (72:43)

  1. If I Needed You (with Don Williams)
  2. Tennessee Rose
  3. Born to Run
  4. Another Pot o' Tea
  5. I'm Movin' On
  6. (Lost His Love) On Our Last Date
  7. So Sad (to Watch Good Love Go Bad)
  8. Maybe Tonight
  9. Drivin' Wheel
  10. In My Dreams
  11. Pledging My Love
  12. Someone Like You
  13. White Line
  14. Rhythm Guitar
  15. Timberline
  16. I Had My Heart Set on You
  17. Today I Started Loving You Again
  18. To Know Him is to Love Him (with Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt)
  19. Heartbreak Hill
  20. Heaven Only Knows
  21. I Still Miss Someone
  22. Wheels of Love

Label : Rhino

Released : 2001

Review (AllMusic) : Rhino's double-disc Anthology concentrates on Emmylou Harris' Reprise recordings, which is a blessing. Once she left Reprise, she started to delve into "experimental," "atmospheric" recordings a bit too heavily, certainly more than her prior recordings would justify, and it almost obscured her purest talents - that of a singer that carried on the tradition of, say, Patsy Cline, becoming the greatest country singer of her generation. Since her generation was the rock generation, her path crossed multiple times with singers that weren't strictly country, most notably at the beginning of her career, when she sung backing and harmony vocals for the incomparable Gram Parsons. This gave her exposure, and she capitalized upon it by turning in recordings that simultaneously appealed to rock and country artists, finding herself as a tremendous interpretive singer, somebody that perfectly balanced the divide between classic and contemporary. Rhino's double-disc Anthology perfectly captures that balance and if it has any faults, it's that it illustrates her career a little too well, finding that her classicist approach was as modern as it was reverent. So, there are moments here that seem a little too studied to be true, but that's an accurate representation of her career, illustrating how she walked the tightrope between genuine country and a scholarly interpretation of it. This will appeal to both factions, as it captures both sides of her personality equally well. That means it might not be the perfect choice to convert doubters, yet it still winds up representing Harris' career remarkably well, perhaps being the one disc for casual fans.