The grande dame of American country music Emmylou Harris has excited tonight the public who attended the Huercasa Country Festival, which was held in Riaza (Segovia), in his only performance in Spain at the start of a European tour .
Who has been awarded this year in Stockholm with the Polar Music Prize, considered the “Nobel” of music, born in Birmingham, Alabama, 68 years ago, has shared the stage with musician Rodney Crowell, who he recorded his new and varied album “The Traveling Kind,” in a duet recital practically.
Indeed it was this work that gives below that recorded both “Old Yellow Moon,” which won a Grammy award in 2013, which has focused much of the concert.
Emmylou has taken the stage at around twenty past eleven at night, dressed in a long skirt in black and white tones, with white shirt and black jacket.
After a first issue, with Rodney Crowell, he greeted the audience in Spanish, a good night, adding, and English, an I love you, to the public.
The public, delivered, occupying almost the full capacity of the football field “Delight”, around 5,000 people, according to the organization.
Of the eleven songs on the album there are six new songs composed by Harris and Crowell in collaboration with Mary Carr, Cory Chisel, Will Jennings, and Larry Klein, updating old Rodney issues, including “No Memories Hanging Around “.
In addition to new interpretations of “I Just Wanted to See You So Bad”, Lucinda Williams, and “Was Her Hair Red” by Amy Allison are included.
The musical relationship and Crowell Harris goes back to 1975 when singer-songwriter invited him to join his “Hot Band”, while the letter of “ill I Gain Control Again”, written by Crowell, opened “Elite Hotel” of the first records of Emmylou in 1976.
Emmylou Harris, which since 2008 is part of the Hall of Fame of country music, has released more than 25 albums and sold 15 million albums in a career lasting four decades in which he has also won thirteen Grammy awards, it has been a safe bet Huercasa Country.
His professionalism clearly defined Polar jury prize: “Nobody in the history of popular music has made harmonies as Emmylou Harris,” whose music contains “the history and topography of the entire American continent” .
In this encounter at the foot of the Massif de Ayllón, which reaches its second edition, promoted by the food processing company Huercasa leader in Europe, has opted for country music and best symbol of the countryside, the field, and healthy living.
From openers, this great night of American popular music, in the countryside, with good temperature and between a good atmosphere surrounded by barbecue with burgers and corn, has played the All-Stars Band, one formation created exclusively for Huercasa Country Festival.
musicians have joined this event for large groups, led by multi-instrumentalist Pedro Lopez, Ramon Arroyo of “Secrets”; Paul Martin, “Third Republic” or studio musicians Mario Carrion, battery; Daniel Casielles, bass, and Guillermo Berlanga “steel guitar” with a repertoire of the best American music of all time.
The night continued with US US Rails, after the success of yesterday evening, Friday, at the Nat Simons, national popup bet festival, the Old 97′s jeans, on his first visit to Spain, and Laura Cantrell, with its balance between tradition and future, they gave a lesson in country.
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