Emmylou Harris was an alt-country singer-songwriter before the label even existed, and though she has continued to sidestep the mainstream her entire career, she has nonetheless maintained a pretty strong commercial batting average. She started out as a Greenwich Village '60s folk singer, before working with Gram Parsons in the early '70s, and taking to Americana. Her songs were always more eclectic than mainstream country and she wrote albums the way rock bands bands did, not piecemeal singles, as was common in the country scene at the time. As mainstream country artists adopted glossy, poppy sounds, she moved the opposite direction, gravitating toward traditional and roots music. Decades later, a whole new generation of alt-country musicians would follow this exact path. (Aaron Carnes)
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Emmylou Harris was an alt-country singer-songwriter before the label even existed, and though she has continued to sidestep the mainstream her entire career, she has nonetheless maintained a pretty strong commercial batting average. She started out as a Greenwich Village '60s folk singer, before working with Gram Parsons in the early '70s, and taking to Americana. Her songs were always more eclectic than mainstream country and she wrote albums the way rock bands bands did, not piecemeal singles, as was common in the country scene at the time. As mainstream country artists adopted glossy, poppy sounds, she moved the opposite direction, gravitating toward traditional and roots music. Decades later, a whole new generation of alt-country musicians would follow this exact path. (Aaron Carnes)
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