Emmylou By Amanda on June 16, 2008 7:34 AM | Permalink
Had a decentish initial listen over the weekend to the new Emmylou Harris All I Intended to Be. It is more or less in the style of the last two, with a lot of watered-down gauzy Lanois touches to the production. These are nice but I personally gravitate towards the simpler arrangements. A couple of songs are lingering this morning; "Broken Man's Lament" which I still need to listen to a bit more to fully understand, the Hag cover ("Kern River"), "Old Five and Dimers" (on YouTube, I could have sworn the liner notes have Mike Auldridge on the duet but I'm probably wrong) and a very moving Emmy original, "Not Enough." The Tracey Chapman cover does rather drag on though, I thought.
It's typical Emmylou, which is to say quite sublime in places.
