Feb. 20, 2013 - Issue #905: DOA No more - Trading in punk for politics
Old Yellow Moon
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell {recordings_bands_mg} Old Yellow Moon {/recordings_bands_mg}
Nonesuch,
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Emmylou Harris can make any song better than it was. That's a fact. She sing, it improves. But that doesn't mean every album she's ever been on is a great album. This duet record with former bandmate Rodney Crowell, however, is a great album. With a set of songs made up of covers and Crowell originals, and a band that never oversteps its bounds—there's not a note out of place here—Harris and Crowell are left to intertwine their voices, wringing more nuance out of the words than seems possible. The more melancholic songs stand out—"Open Season On My Heart" and "Back When We Were Beautiful" are particularly moving—but even the relatively plain, steady thumping country blues number "Black Caffeine" is elevated by the duo's playful vocal interaction.
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