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Erline Harris (April 5, 1914 – January 6, 2004), [1] born Erlyn Eloise Johnson, was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1940s and early 1950s. Her 1949 song "Rock and Roll Blues" was one of the first jump blues songs to use the phrase " rock and roll " in its secular context.
Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems is a 2007 box set of songs personally selected by Emmylou Harris: "I've selected not greatest hits, but personal favorites: that, with a few exceptions-have never appeared on any other compilations, but were important gems in the string of pearls that each album strives to become.
Alberta Adams; Sil Austin; LaVern Baker; Big Maybelle; Big Three Trio; Calvin Boze; Tiny Bradshaw; Jackie Brenston; Nappy Brown; Roy Brown; Ruth Brown; Arnett Cobb
Luxury Liner is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1976.The album was Harris' second successive number one country album on the Billboard charts, although, unlike the preceding Elite Hotel, there were no number one hits from this album.
Elite Hotel is the third studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1975. Elite Hotel was Harris' second album to be released in 1975, preceded by the widely acclaimed Pieces of the Sky. Elite Hotel surpassed it on the Billboard charts, becoming Harris' first number one country
Roses in the Snow is the seventh studio album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1980.While Harris' previous release, 1979's Blue Kentucky Girl, featured traditional, straight-ahead country (as opposed to the country-rock of her prior efforts), Roses in the Snow found Harris performing bluegrass-inspired music, with material by Flatt and Scruggs, Paul Simon, The Carter Family ...
Editorial staff at AnyDecentMusic? aggregate reviews for this album at 7.3 out of 10, with nine reviews. [3] Editors at AllMusic Guide gave The Traveling Kind 3.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Mark Deming noting "Harris' sweet, firm, very human tone as well as Crowell's outwardly cocky but inwardly perceptive voice, and the sweet and sour push and pull complements them both". [4]
The Allmusic review stated "Eddie Harris had nearly as many voices as sax timbres – ranging from nasal, sly asides to electronically strangled yowls and even falsetto. But none of these Eddie Harrises, nor the spirited percussive help of Willie Bobo, could save the humdrum, mostly R&B-based material that he created for this album".