Description
Emmylou Harris – Roses In The Snow / Warner Bros. Records Audio CD / 7599234222
UPC 07599-23422-23
Product Details:
Label: Warner Bros. Records – 7599-23422-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Europe
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Country Rock
Description:
Roses in the Snow is the seventh album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1980. While Harris' previous release, 1979's Blue Kentucky Girl, featured traditional, straight-ahead country (as opposed to the country-rock of her prior efforts), Roses in the Snow found Harris performing bluegrass-inspired music, with material by Flatt and Scruggs, Paul Simon, The Carter Family, and Johnny Cash. Cash, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, The Whites, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson and Tony Rice made guest appearances. "Wayfaring Stranger" was released as the first single in 1980 and went to #7 on the Billboard Country charts. The second single, a remake of a Simon & Garfunkel song, "The Boxer", reached #13. Backing musicians included Albert Lee and Jerry Douglas.
Editorial Review:
Harris's 1980 back-to-the-roots album marks a high point in her career. With stellar support form Tony Rice (acoustic guitar), Albert Lee (mandolin), and Ricky Skaggs (fiddle), Harris wanders comfortably and warmly through traditional-country and bluegrass pastures. Skaggs, Dolly Parton, and the Whites add beautiful harmonies as Harris slides effortlessly from the Carter Family to the Stanley Brothers to the Louvin Brothers to Paul Simon. Among the set's peaks are Flatt and Scruggs's "I'll Go Stepping Too," with Rice, Skaggs, Lee (on superb electric guitar), and dobro master Jerry Douglas turning up the instrumental heat, and the spiritual "Jordan," with Harris, Skaggs, Rice, and Johnny Cash engaging in buoyant four-part harmonies. --Marc Greilsamer
Tracklist:
| 1 | Roses In The Snow
Backing Vocals [Harmony] – The Whites, Banjo – Ricky Skaggs |
2:32 |
| 2 | Wayfaring Stranger
Acoustic Guitar [Gut-string] – Brian Ahern, Percussion – John Ware |
3:26 |
| 3 | Green Pastures
Acoustic Guitar [Gut-string] – Willie Nelson, Backing Vocals [Harmony] – Dolly Parton, Percussion, Bass – Brian Ahern, Vocals [Duet] – Ricky Skaggs |
3:08 |
| 4 | The Boxer
Acoustic Guitar [12-string] – Brian Ahern, Backing Vocals [Harmony] – The WhitesBanjo – Ricky Skaggs |
3:16 |
| 5 | Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
Acoustic Guitar [Adamas] – Brian Ahern, Lead Vocals – Ricky Skaggs |
3:22 |
| 6 | I'll Go Stepping Too
Guitar – Albert Lee |
2:16 |
| 7 | You're Learning
Guitar – Albert Lee, Vocals [Duet] – Ricky Skaggs |
2:57 |
| 8 | Jordan
Backing Vocals [Harmony] – Johnny Cash |
2:07 |
| 9 | Miss The Mississippi And You
Piano – Buck White |
3:40 |
| 10 |
Gold Watch And Chain
Lead Vocals – Ricky Skaggs, Vocals [Duet], Backing Vocals [Harmony] – Linda Ronstadt |
3:12 |
More Details:
- Acoustic Guitar – Emmylou Harris (tracks: 1, 4, 10), Ricky Skaggs (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10), Tony Rice (tracks: 1, 2, 6 to 9)
- Arranged By – Brian Ahern
- Autoharp – Bryan Bowers (tracks: 3, 4, 10)
- Backing Vocals [Harmony] – Ricky Skaggs (tracks: 2, 5, 8, 10), Tony Rice (tracks: 6 to 8)
- Bass – Emory Gordy Jr. (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 10)
- Design – Tom Wilkes Productions
- Engineer – Brian Ahern, Donivan Cowart, Stewart Taylor (2)
- Guitar [Archtop] – Brian Ahern (tracks: 1, 3 to 10)
- Guitar [Dobro] – Jerry Douglas (tracks: 2, 3, 6)
- Mandolin – Albert Lee (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7 to 10), Ricky Skaggs (tracks: 5, 6, 8)
- Photography By – Tom Wilkes Productions
- Producer – Brian Ahern
- Remastered By – Lee Herschberg
- Violin – Ricky Skaggs (tracks: 1, 2, 5 to 7, 9)
- Vocals – Emmylou Harris
About the Artist:
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists.
