EMMYLOU HARRIS' MUSIC HASN'T LOST ITS FLOW.Byline: Amy Dawes Daily News Staff Writer Some things only improve over time, like the music of Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris (b. April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk and alternative rock musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and , who played a generous set Wednesday at the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically as she continues to tour behind her 1995 Grammy-winning album ``Wrecking Ball.'' Long known for recruiting and working with some of the best musicians on the road, Harris has a crack outfit in her new band Spyboy, a three-man unit that's distinctive for the intoxicating in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. liquid groove of its New Orleans-bred rhythm section Noun 1. rhythm section - the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments percussion section, percussion section - a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class , made of drummer Brady Blade Brady L Blade Jr. (born 1965 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a noted American rock, pop and country drummer, record producer and composer, who currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the son of Dorothy and Pastor Brady Blade Sr. and bassist Darryl Johnson, and the nary-a-false-lick virtuosity of guitarist Buddy Miller, who's a Hightone recording artist in his own right. Harris, a country-rock diva whose legacy reaches back to the early-'70s California scene in which the late Gram Parsons was a key figure, stood steady as a tree center stage, her now-silver hair curling gracefully around an unlined face and her bare, tanned arms cradling various acoustic guitars while the music - an impeccably unified sound - flowed around her and through her. Spyboy's live delivery of the ``Wrecking Ball'' tunes was less fussy and precious than on the Daniel Lanois-produced album, and to these ears, more pleasing. Harris' set also made way for an homage to the late Townes Van Zandt, with one of the groovingest versions of ``Pancho & Lefty'' ever laid down, and to Lucinda Williams, with her ``Crescent City'' and ``Sweet Old World.'' Longtime fans were also treated to a sublime version of long-ago Parsons duet ``Love Hurts,'' with rough-edged harmony vocals supplied by Miller. Among supporters in the house was blues-rocker Bonnie Raitt, a longtime veteran of similar musical circles. The opening acoustic set by A&M recording artist Patty Griffin was also a stunner stunner device used in abattoirs to stun an animal so that it is unconscious when it is bled out. concussion stunner a captive-bolt, nonpenetrating device, activated by a standard bullet. , with the Maine-born redhead powering through her grade-A confessional-style songs with a vocal delivery that's both edgy and soaring, and an outlook that tempers anger with maturity. Highlights included ``Sweet Lorraine,'' ``Poor Man's House'' and ``Every Little Bit,'' a staple of the former radio station KSCA KSCA Karnataka State Cricket Association (India) KSCA Kansas Scholastic Chess Association KSCA Kansas School Counselor Association KSCA Knight of the Society for Creative Anachronism (Medieval Recreationists) . |
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