Thursday, September 18, 2025

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris

A friend of mine sent me the title track of this album on a mix cd many years ago and I’m now kicking myself for not listening to the rest of the album before now. The music here falls somewhere between country, folk and Americana with some interesting touches of world music from other places too. 

This is Harris’ 19th album but the first where she wrote almost all of the songs, and there are some great guest cameos too, notably Patty Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen on Tragedy. The highlight is still Red Dirt Girl which takes me back to opening a letter from America and putting a cd in the player all those years ago. 

https://album.link/gb/i/72787298






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