This is exciting: Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler have recorded an album together, and it comes out tomorrow. The Telegraph has the news.
Befitting their ages (Harris is 59, Knopfler 56), it is an album for mature listeners, in the sense that it deals with genuinely adult subject matter, celebrating what Harris calls "ordinary extraordinary" lives: marriage, divorce, children, the little sacrifices we have to make to survive, and the small joys that make it worthwhile."We don't do great life affirmation, either of us, but we do pretty good misery," suggests Knopfler, but in fact there is something hugely life-affirming about an album so concerned with everyday realities.
"We've both been married, both been divorced. I hear that when Emmy sings. I hear the patience, the compassion, the experience."
"We're all sort of one paycheck away from a trailer park in our lives," says Harris. "We've all been there. People want the same things: somebody to love us and appreciate us for who we are. It's hard to find."
Related:
• Emmylou Harris - official site
• Mark Knopfler - official site
UPDATE: Mark and Emmylou appeared on the public radio program A Prairie Home Companion last Saturday, April 22.
Fortunately, the show's archives are available on-line. So you can both listen to them perform four duets AND completely skip over the peurile so-called "humor" of leftist gasbag Garrison Keillor.
Posted by Alan at April 24, 2006 01:24 AM