I love to get high and listen to Emmylou Harris. I enjoy very much watching you be turned onto Emmylou Harris for the 1st time. I find Pancho and Lefty to be a very captivating, hypnotic, psychdellic dream. Emmylou recorded the song several years before Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard recorded it and had a big hit with it and made it famous. Unfortunately, Emmylou's Pancho and Lefty didn't get mainstream country rotation radio back in the day. I always thought if the song had gotten radio play, Emmylou and The Hot Band would have won a Grammy for best country song in 1977. Even though the song was written by the late and great Townes Van Zandt, I've always considered Pancho and Lefty to be an Emmylou Harris song rather than a Willie and Merle song. It's one of her signature songs and plays it at nearly all of her concerts.
Her voice is incandescent. In addition to her solo work, her duets with Lyle Lovett and her recordings with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt are amazing.
Emmylou was my Moms favorite! Willie Nelson and Merel Haggard made the song hit the 10 !! Listen to her other stuff! She is one of my favorites so thank you Mom in heaven!! Her voice is amazing.. She also sang with Gram Parrsons. Misspelled his 1st name but just woke up! Check out her singing 'Making Believe " ect Love your Content Jay! ✌🧡🙏
This woman has a huge catalogue. I have over thirty albums of hers. I've seen her in rhe USA, UK and Australia. I remember her early folk songs and duets with a variety of great singers. Listen Trio to hear great harmonies.
At last, and thank you Jay for reacting to Emmylou Harris! I think you're the only channel that has given the Kentucky Songbird her due recognition. Pancho & Lefty, along with Tulsa Queen are two of the most hypnotic tracks on that album, Luxury Liner. She does a fantastic cover of Chuck Berry's rocker, "You Never Can Tell". That album introduced me to (pure) country music in 1977, and have been a longtime fan since. She's delightful and enchanting in concert. When she sings acapella w her band mates, it's transcendental.
here are some gems of hers to check out, Till I Gain Control Again(studio version), The Pearl, and Boulder to Birmingham. Doing music since 1968 she is still going strong, recording and still looking beautiful in her 70's now. Love the journey your on Jayy
Miss Emmylou Harris #3 on my list of all time favorite folk country singers. Such a great voice and pitch range. Note she did a song on The Band Last Waltz album.
emmylou harris is a singer that 100s of singers sing a song but when she sings takes it to a whole new level its going to move you its going to turn peoples heads and moving and be moved like your reaction 👍
This was hit for Emmy Lou before Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard recorded it. TVZ was one of the greatest songwriters ever. Let his torture soul Rest In Peace.
Emmylou was a central figure in the Texas music scene of the 1970s. She didn't have the commercial success of some of her friends like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, but she was in the room where it happened, and her albums are fantastic, from start to finish. Amazing voice, incredible songwriter, I couldn't pick a favorite song to recommend. Also, I think she was a guest on Sesame Street, and actually DID sing the Alphabet Song.
Her voice so beautifully highlights in this song the things that we regret doing that forever changes us. Her voice is so pure and clear and full of emotions from all the pain and loss from her own life.
Great songwriting by Townes, great vocals by EmmyLou. Many great artists and writers in this coral. Rodney Crowell, Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, Gram Parsons, Rosanne Cash, John Hiatt, Patti Griffin. Pure talent and hours of Joy!
When Linda Ronstadt was starting out, she had to go on stage after hearing Emmylou and she was thinking to herself...this woman sounds exactly the way I want to sound. Haha, she was nervous to say the least. Emmylou had the voice and looks, but Linda did her thang. They same some songs together as well.
EmmyLou is one of my favorite singers. Her collaboration albums with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt called “Trio” and “Trio II”. They all take turns leading in each song. “High Sierra” is a beautiful song lead by Linda Ronstadt. 🎸🔥☮️👵🏼
Having discovered Emmylou's beautiful voice I hope you continued to explore more of her work because you have stumbled on to a catalogue of work thats filled with more gems than you can imagine. And start at the very beginning so you can appreciate how good she was right from the start. You'll get to see her progression as an artist. I'm so grateful I was there from the start and got to see her live many times over the years. From Everybody Hurts ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--JeJYTkVqkE.html to Red Dirt Girl ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nzwnYC_wJ1g.html to Gold ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6Md4IrZjzek.html She will enrich your soul.
I met Townes and he's more well known because of Emmylou Harris, but I prefer Townes singing his poems as they were lived..Adios Townes glad our paths crossed🙋
Lyrics: Livin on the road my friend is gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron Your breath as hard as kerosene You weren't your momma's only boy, but her favorite one it seemed She began to cry when you said goodbye And sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match, you know, on the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dyin words, ah but that's the way it goes All the Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him slip away, out of kindness, I suppose Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows All the Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him slip away, out of kindness I suppose The poets tell how old Pancho fell, and Lefty's livin in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold And so the story ends, we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old ll the Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose few gray Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose
I think people love this song because it tells a story. Without being a morality play, it speaks of betrayal and the human condition. Why Van Zandt didn't get more credit as a songwriter, "there ain't nobody knows."
If you liked her voice when she was younger, you should do a reaction to her in this video => Red Dirt Girl live at Farm Aid 2005. Make sure you have a new box of Kleenex beside you!
There is no telling how many songs Towns Van Zandt wrote, he wrote this on for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, they made the biggest hit out of this song, not to take anything away from EmmyLou Harris, Towns didn't much care who sang his songs...if he liked them.
Although Emmylou Harris has am angelic voice, it is not the voice this song needs. Im sorry u didnt do the version by Willie and Merle. Harris singing is like poetry. Willie and Merle are more barroom story telling. U don't get the feel of the harsh, frontier world this song should invoke. Of course, thats just an opinion
