Continuing my career retrospectives with a collection of great songs/vids, and guests Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, Sheryl Crow, George Jones, Mark Knopfler, Steve Earle, Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell.
My uncle went to HS with her. He died last year, and I ended up with his yearbooks. Emmylou is in two of them. It’s fun to look at her then, and know what has become of that beautiful young girl.
In the 1960s, she lived the next block up from us in Woodbridge,VA. She was very popular and involved in many activities at the high school down the street. A woman wrote a book about being the first Black student to integrate that school in 1961. She wrote that Emmylou Harris was there outside on the sidewalk to welcome her when she showed up her first day at the school, accompanied by local deputies.
Emmylou was a major college crush. Thanks for the profile!
My uncle went to HS with her. He died last year, and I ended up with his yearbooks. Emmylou is in two of them. It’s fun to look at her then, and know what has become of that beautiful young girl.
In the 1960s, she lived the next block up from us in Woodbridge,VA. She was very popular and involved in many activities at the high school down the street. A woman wrote a book about being the first Black student to integrate that school in 1961. She wrote that Emmylou Harris was there outside on the sidewalk to welcome her when she showed up her first day at the school, accompanied by local deputies.
wow, did not know that, thanks.....
The book was A Blues Song of My Own, by Joyce Russell Terrell. That was very courageous of young Emmylou at that place and time.