2023 Charity Shop Purchases #20 - Emmylou Harris - Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
For the second Monday in a row Emmylou Harris is the featured artist.
Last week when I featured 1998's Spyboy I pointed out that there is an unwritten rule at CCM HQ that whenever one stumbles across anything by Emmylou which is not on the shelves it requires to be purchased.
I received a text from Mrs CC who was out with her mum in Troon with the picture above and the words " do we have this one.?"A swift reply from me confirmed we hadn't and it was duly purchased. From 1978 and on Warner Brothers it was her 5th studio album and is now her 14th one on the shelves. The copy we now have is a re-issue from 2004 with a couple of extra tracks thrown in.
Now in 1978 I would have been fairly oblivious to Ms Harris' musical charms but as I discovered Americana and her work with Gram Parsons she very quickly became a firm favourite.
Some trivia - Rick Danko and Garth Hudson of the Band appear on this album whose cover is a painting by Susannah Clark, the wife of Guy. Let's face it this is what you come here for rather than the music, isn't it?
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