At the end of her concert tonight at the Charlottesville Pavillion, Emmylou Harris brought her dogs out on the stage and encouraged everyone to adopt one of their own.
It was that kind of night.
For a superstar, she's believably down-to-earth, and it seemed so appropriate that we should be sitting on the grass on a cool June evening with fireflies. I think that's what I like best about Emmylou: her great generous, thankful spirit. She played an epic set, gave credit to her band when it was due (which was often---they were great), covered Gillian Welch with reverence, talked about Gram, and was just so durn humble the whole night.
And she has collaborated with just about everyone with a bit of twang in their sound, including Beck.Oh... and did I mention that she went to my high school? Crazy.
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