Emmylou Harris - All I Intended to be - Love this

Emmylou is one of my favorite artists. I generally prefer her pre Wrecking Ball albums. She's been making them since the 70s.

For best sound, she put out a 4cd 1 dvd set not too long ago titled Songbird. It's a collection of some of her favorite tracks from throughout her career along with quite a bit of unreleased material. The sound is quite a bit better than the cds released prior to it. The dvd is not anything special and probably should have been left out.

A few of my favorite albums are:
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town,
The Ballad of Sally Rose,
At The Ryman (really good live set with the Nash Ramblers, an acoustic/electric band including Sam Bush),
Cowgirl's Prayer
Spyboy

IMHO you can't go too far wrong with any of her earlier albums. Her voice started to go around Wrecking Ball and she moved away from her country/country rock roots. All I Intended To Be is a bit of a return to her earlier style.

In any case, you're on to a great artist and have a lot of really great music to discover. Enjoy!

I was disappointed by her last album...just doesn't seem to get to me like she usually does...she almost sounds bored. dunno... I like what I've heard of the new release with Tom Rush so far....
and yes, get all her early material, all of it, you can't go wrong there.

Actually, she "emerged" when she met a crazy, out of control Gram Parsons. If it wasn't for her, Gram would not have recorded one of the best country rock Lps of all time.
Gram Parsons- Grievous Angel. Emmylou shines behind Gram.
Of my 2k+ lp collection, it is in the top 10!!!

emmylous boxset songbird is great and it is always in heavy rotation in my listening room,the packaging could be improved but the music and quality are both very good

Her 'Duets' album has some absolutely wonderful pairings, Emmylou with Roy Orbison, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Neil Young (and a couple of really unfortunate ones.) It really shows off her ability to make any singer and any song better.