American singer-songwriter and musician Emmylou Harris wrote 11 out of the 13 songs on her new album "Hard Bargain," including two moving tributes to friends who have died, Gram Parsons and Kate McGarrigle.
"Hard Bargain" is a disc that confronts head-on disappointment, death and loss with the oddly comforting, backward glance of middle age.
Check out here the album's opener "The Road" - a touching tribute to Harris' late partner, Gram Parsons, in which she allows that one can't be "haunted by the past" since "nothing ever lasts," even as she savors his memory.
"Hard Bargain" is a disc that confronts head-on disappointment, death and loss with the oddly comforting, backward glance of middle age.
Check out here the album's opener "The Road" - a touching tribute to Harris' late partner, Gram Parsons, in which she allows that one can't be "haunted by the past" since "nothing ever lasts," even as she savors his memory.
Other noteworthy albums that were launched this week include Augustana's self-titled third effort, Tab Benoit's "Medicine," Steve Earle's "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" and jazz tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman's "James Farm."
- Source: Nick Visser, Seattle Times reporter
- Source: Nick Visser, Seattle Times reporter
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