Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years

Disc 1
1	Too Far Gone
2	If I Could Only Win Your Love
3	Boulder to Birmingham
4	Together Again
5	Here, There, and Everywhere
6	One of These Days
7	Sweet Dreams Live
8	C'est La Vie, (You Never Can Tell)
9	Making Believe
10	Easy From Now On
11	To Daddy
12	Two More Bottles of Wine
13	Save the Last Dance For Me
14	Beneath Still Waters
15	Blue Kentucky Girl
16	Wayfaring Stranger
17	That Lovin' You Feelin' Again / Roy Orbison
18	The Boxer
19	Precious Love
20	Fools Thin Air
21	Mister Sandman 2:24
22	Colors of Your Heart
Disc 2
1	If I Needed You
2	Tennessee Rose
3	Mama Help
4	Born to Run
5	Another Pot O' Tea
6	I'm Movin' On Live
7	On Our Last Date, (Lost His Love) Live
8	So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
9	Maybe Tonight
10	Drivin' Wheel
11	In My Dreams
12	Pledging My Love
13	Someone Like You
14	White Line
15	Rhythm Guitar
16	Timberline
17	I Had My Heart Set on You
18	Today I Start Loving You Again
19	To Know Him is to Love Him
20	Heartbreak Hill
21	Heaven Only Knows
22	I Still Miss Someone
23	Wheels of Love 2:45

Barnes & Noble

For 30 years and counting, Emmylou Harris has drawn on the whole of popular music a source of inspiration. At once an innovator and a traditionalist, she has an uncanny gift for translating what she hears into contemporary country terms. The 45 tracks here chart an assured artist's course -- Harris has always sounded like she knows exactly what she wants to do -- and are as smart as they are, often, unconventional. But her choices -- aided and abetted by her beautiful crystalline voice -- always aim to make the human connection between artist and listener rather than show off her good and catholic taste. Several acknowledged Harris classics are in this compelling collection: "Boulder to Birmingham," "Blue Kentucky Girl," and the haunting version of "To Know Him Is to Love Him," with fellow Trio conspirators Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt. No less powerful, though, are Harris's countrified interpretations of Lennon-McCartney ("Here, There and Everywhere"), Chuck Berry ("(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie"), and Paul Simon ("The Boxer"), as well as her linkage of country to R&B ("Pledging My Love") and to the Latin-tinged urban pop of Pomus-Shuman ("Save the Last Dance for Me"). Harris scholars will be delighted to know that several tracks show up on CD in the U.S. for the first time: "Fools Thin Air" and her take on Rodney Crowell's powerful "Precious Love," both of which were B-sides; "Driving Wheel" and "Pledging My Love" from the White Shoes album; and "White Line," "Rhythm Guitar," and "Timberline" from The Ballad of Sally Rose. Warner has about three times this amount of choice Emmylou material in its vaults, but for now, this taste is fine. David McGee

All Music Guide

Rhino's double-disc Anthology concentrates on Emmylou Harris' Reprise recordings, which is a blessing. Once she left Reprise, she started to delve into "experimental," "atmospheric" recordings a bit too heavily, certainly more than her prior recordings would justify, and it almost obscured her purest talents -- that of a singer that carried on the tradition of, say, Patsy Cline, becoming the greatest country singer of her generation. Since her generation was the rock generation, her path crossed multiple times with singers that weren't strictly country, most notably at the beginning of her career, when she sung backing and harmony vocals for the incomparable Gram Parsons. This gave her exposure, and she capitalized upon it by turning in recordings that simultaneously appealed to rock and country artists, finding herself as a tremendous interpretive singer, somebody that perfectly balanced the divide between classic and contemporary. Rhino's double-disc Anthology perfectly captures that balance and if it has any faults, it's that it illustrates her career a little too well, finding that her classicist approach was as modern as it was reverent. So, there are moments here that seem a little too studied to be true, but that's an accurate representation of her career, illustrating how she walked the tightrope between genuine country and a scholarly interpretation of it. This will appeal to both factions, as it captures both sides of her personality equally well. That means it might not be the perfect choice to convert doubters, yet it still winds up representing Harris' career remarkably well, perhaps being the one disc for casual fans. Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Blender

Few artists have voices that so beautifully express emotional fortitude without ever resorting to pyrotechnics. Keith Harris