Book and music purchases arrive

In today’s mail: Paperback editions of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s “Neogenesis” and Eric Flint and Charles Gannon’s “The Vatican Sanction.” Also: the 2016 Celebration of Joan Baez’s 75th birthday, complete with a whole bunch of guest artists singing with her. Here’s one of the songs: Baez and Mary Chapin Carpenter singing Donovan’s “Catch the …

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Country Music Cataloging

Here are Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell singing “Hanging up my Heart” from their 2013 Grammy-winning album Old Yellow Moon. They have since released another album, The Traveling Kind. Crowell was a member of Emmylou’s Hot Band back in the 1980s and she’s been performing his compositions ever since, but it wasn’t till this decade …

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The Complete Trio Collection

Today this 3-CD set is being released. It’s a re-release of the first two Trio albums Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt recorded in 1987 and 1999 and a third bonus disc with over twenty unreleased tracks and alternate takes from the first two recording sessions. The initial album was released in March 1987. …

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A cover I’ve never heard before

Wow. Via TBogg, a very pregnant Emmylou Harris singing one of my favorite Beatles songs. It’s so much fun to find a cover song you didn’t know had been done. Recently I also ran across concert footage of Linda Ronstadt singing the Cat Stevens song “The First Cut is the Deepest,” which has never appeared …

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