Album: Emmylou Harris, All I Intended to Be (Nonesuch)

Nick Coleman
Saturday 07 June 2008 19:00 EDT
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Emmylou's Daniel Lanois period is over. She's back in Nashville with Brian Ahern on the other side of the thickened glass, which means that an elegantly chiming country-rock sound replaces the arty false perspectives and cultivated grit of the Lanois vibe.

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It's rather lovely, in that mournful, somehow ecstatic mode patented by Harris as long ago as her friendship with Gram Parsons. And if the solemnity is a little insistent, then it is only doing its job, which is to radiate like sepulchral light from a woman who has become a national treasure. Dolly Parton, Vince Gill and the similarly sainted McGarrigle sisters are in the room too.

Pick of the Album: The McGarrigles collaboration: 'How She Could Sing the...'

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