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Has collaborated on the albums of Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Neil Young, Bob Dylan (her vocals are prominently featured on his 1975 album Desire), Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Mark Knopfler, Anne Murray, and Willie Nelson. Performed duets on a Gram Parsons tribute album with Beck, Sheryl Crow and The Pretenders. See more trivia »
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1999-2013 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
Episode #20.97 (2013) (performer: "Dreaming My Dreams")
Episode #18.123 (2011) (writer: "Six White Cadillacs" - uncredited / performer: "Six White Cadillacs" - uncredited)
Episode dated 24 March 1999 (1999) (performer: "After the Goldrush")
 
2012 Promised Land (performer: "Beneath Still Waters", "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
 
2012 Lawless (performer: "So You'll Aim Towards the Sky", "Fire in the Blood", "Cosmonaut")
 
2012 Game Change (TV movie) (performer: "Beyond the Great Divide")
 
2011 Country at the BBC (TV movie) (performer: "Together Again")
 
2011 Big Love (TV series)
A Seat at the Table (2011) (performer: "Wildflowers" - uncredited)
 
2009 Charlie Rose (TV series)
Episode dated 24 August 2009 (2009) (performer: "Applejack")
Dolly Parton (2009) (performer: "Applejack")
 
2009 The Queens of Country (video) (performer: "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy", "Applejack", "The Sweetest Gift", "Bury Me Beneath The Willow Tree")
 
2008 Nights in Rodanthe (writer: "In Rodanthe" / performer: "In Rodanthe")
 
2007 Dolly Parton & Friends (video) (performer: "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy", "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Applejack", "The Sweetest Gift", "Bury Me Beneath The Willow")
 
2006 CMT: The Greatest - 40 Greatest Albums (TV documentary) (performer: "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues")
 
2006 Today's Country Music (video) (performer: "Where Will I Be")
 
2006 The Hottest State (performer: "The Speed of Sound")
 
2006 CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (TV documentary) (performer: "Those Memories of You")
 
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise (performer: "If You Were A Bluebird")
 
2006 Come Early Morning (performer: "SOMEBODY PICK UP MY PIECES")
 
2005 Brokeback Mountain (performer: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old")
 
2005 Because of Winn-Dixie (writer: "Cabaret" / performer: "Cabaret")
 
2002-2005 Crossing Jordan (TV series)
A Stranger Among Us (2005) (performer: "Comin' Around" - uncredited)
Second Chances (2004) (performer: "Shelter From The Storm" - uncredited)
Lost and Found (2002) (performer: "Goodbye" - uncredited, "All My Tears" - uncredited)
 
2005 Elvis Costello and the Imposters: Live in Memphis (video documentary) ("I Still Miss Someone", "Heartshaped Bruise", "Wheels", "My Baby's Gone", "Sleepless Nights")
 
2004 The Sopranos (TV series)
Two Tonys (2004) ("HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS")
 
2003 Grand Theft Parsons (performer: "A Song For You", "Love Hurts")
 
2003 Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde (TV documentary) (performer: "To Know Him Is To Love Him")
 
2002 Stevie (documentary) (performer: "The Maker")
 
2002 Sunshine State (performer: "Beneath Still Waters" 1979)
 
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (performer: "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby")
 
2000 Where the Heart Is (performer: "Beyond the Blue")
 
2000 Songcatcher (performer: "Barbara Allen")
 
1999 Live with Kelly and Michael (TV series)
Episode dated 25 March 1999 (1999) (performer: "After the Goldrush")
 
1999 CBS This Morning (TV series)
Episode dated 26 February 1999 (1999) (performer: "High Sierra")
 
1999 The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV series)
Episode dated 12 February 1999 (1999) (performer: "When We're Gone, Long Gone")
 
1999 Today (TV series)
Episode dated 11 February 1999 (1999) (performer: "High Sierra")
 
1999 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Episode dated 9 February 1999 (1999) (performer: "High Sierra")
 
1999 Tumbleweeds (performer: "One of These Days")
 
1999 Happy, Texas (writer: "Ordinary Heart" / performer: "Ordinary Heart")
 
1997 Doing Time for Patsy Cline (writer: "Boulder To Birmingham" / performer: "Boulder To Birmingham", "Sweet Old World")
 
1996 Sling Blade (performer: "Shenandoah")
 
1996 Sgt. Bilko (performer: "Feelin' Single - Seein' Double")
 
1995 Casino (performer: "Sweet Dreams")
 
1994 Dateline NBC (TV series documentary)
Episode dated 21 September 1994 (1994) (performer: "Wildflowers", "To Know Him Is To Love Him")
 
1994 Dolly Parton: In Country (video documentary) (performer: "Calling My Children Home")
 
1994 The Crazy World of Dolly Parton (video documentary) (performer: "Calling My Children Home")
 
1993 Country Music Association's 35th Anniversary (TV special) (performer: "To Daddy")
 
1992 Scent of a Woman (performer: "Evangeline")
 
1992 Galaxies Are Colliding (performer: "THE KING OF BROKEN HEARTS")
 
1990 Texasville (performer: "In My Dreams")
 
1990 Tohuwabohu (TV series)
The Best of Last Songs (performer: "Mister Sandman" - uncredited)
 
1988 Young Country (video short) (performer: "Those Memories of You")
 
1987 Planes, Trains & Automobiles (performer: "Back in Baby's Arms" 1963 / producer: "Back in Baby's Arms" 1963)
 
1987 Dolly (TV series)
Episode #1.3 (1987) (performer: "My Dear Companion", "Those Memories of You", "Hobo's Meditation")
 
1987 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Episode dated 13 March 1987 (1987) (performer: "Those Memories of You", "To Know Him Is To Love Him", "Hobo's Meditation")
 
1985 UFOria (performer: "I Know an Ending")
 
1980 Honeysuckle Rose (performer: "ANGEL EYES", "SO YOU THINK YOU'RE A COWBOY")
 
1980 Roadie (performer: "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again")
 
1978 12th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV movie) (performer: "To Daddy")
 
1978 The Last Waltz (documentary) (performer: "Evangeline")
 
1976 Dolly (TV series)
Episode #1.5 (1976) (performer: "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy", "Applejack", "The Sweetest Gift", "Bury Me Beneath The Willow Tree")
 
Show ShowActress (2 titles)
2012 Americana Music Awards (TV movie)
 
2007 Big Love (TV series)
Woman Singing with Adaleen Grant
The Writing on the Wall (2007) … Woman Singing with Adaleen Grant
 
Show ShowMusic Department (1 title)
1996 Sling Blade (special guest vocalist)
 
Show ShowSelf (103 titles)
1993-2013 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
Herself - Musical Guest / Herself / Herself - Guest / …
Episode #20.97 (2013) … Herself - Guest
Episode #18.123 (2011) … Herself - Musical Guest
Episode #15.132 (2008) … Herself - Musical Guest
Episode dated 27 April 2006 (2006) … Herself/Musical Guest
Episode dated 21 July 2005 (2005) … Herself
 
2012 The Colbert Report (TV series)
Herself - Guest
Don Fleming, Elvis Costello, & Emmylou Harris (2012) … Herself - Guest
 
2011 Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin' the Devil's Cage (documentary)
Herself
 
2011 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV series)
Herself - Musical Guest
Episode #1.473 (2011) … Herself - Musical Guest
 
2011 Tavis Smiley (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 20 April 2011 (2011) … Herself
 
2011 Naked (TV series)
Herself
 
2009-2010 The Marty Stuart Show (TV series)
Herself - Special Guest
Episode #2.22 (2010) … Herself - Special Guest
Episode #2.1 (2009) … Herself - Special Guest
 
2010 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)
Herself - Musical Guest
Episode #8.116 (2010) … Herself - Musical Guest
 
2003-2010 Soundstage (TV series documentary)
Herself
Three Girls and Their Buddy (2010) … Herself
Farm Aid 2003 (2003) … Herself
 
2009 The Jay Leno Show (TV series)
Herself - Musical Guest
Episode #1.13 (2009) … Herself - Musical Guest
 
2009 In the Hank Williams Tradition (video)
Herself
 
1995-2008 Later with Jools Holland (TV series)
Herself
Episode #32.6 (2008) … Herself
Episode #16.7 (2000) … Herself
Episode #6.4 (1995) … Herself
 
2008 CMT Insider (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 16 February 2008 (2008) … Herself
 
2007 Headline Country (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 10 November 2007 (2007) … Herself
 
2007 Time Shift (TV series documentary)
Herself
Emmylou Harris at the BBC (2007) … Herself
 
1994-2007 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
Herself / Herself - Musical Guest
Episode #15.164 (2007) … Herself
Episode #14.162 (2006) … Herself - Musical Guest
Episode #10.127 (2002) … Herself
Episode dated 24 August 1999 (1999) … Herself - Musical Guest
Episode dated 9 February 1999 (1999) … Herself
 
2007 Solomon Burke & Friends: Live in Nashville (TV movie)
Herself
 
2006 Great Performances (TV series)
Herself
 
2006 BingoLotto (TV series)
Herself
Episode #30.18 (2006) … Herself
 
1994-2006 Biography (TV series documentary)
Herself
Johnny Cash: The Man in Black (1998) … Herself
Willie Nelson: My Life (1994) … Herself
 
2006 Neil Young: Heart of Gold (documentary)
Herself
 
1998-2006 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV series)
Herself / Herself - Musical Guest
Episode dated 4 January 2006 (2006) … Herself - Musical Guest
Episode dated 19 August 1998 (1998) … Herself
 
2005 New York Noise Presents: Summer in the City (TV mini-series)
Herself (scenes deleted)
 
2005 React Now: Music & Relief (TV movie)
Herself
 
2005 CMT: 20 Greatest Country Bands (TV special)
Herself
 
2005 Elvis Costello and the Imposters: Live in Memphis (video documentary)
Herself
 
2004 Sen kväll med Luuk (TV series)
Herself
Episode #14.9 (2004) … Herself (as Snowracer)
 
2004 Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (documentary)
Herself - Musician
 
2004 Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2004 Fallen Angel: Gram Parsons (documentary)
Herself
 
2004 The 46th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Performer
 
2003 CMT Crossroads (TV series)
Herself
Dave Matthews & Emmylou Harris (2003) … Herself
 
2003 Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart (TV movie)
Herself
 
2003 Brian Wilson on Tour (video documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Lost Highway (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself
Sweethearts of the Rodeo (2003) … Herself
 
2002 CMT: 40 Greatest Women of Country Music (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2001 The 2nd Annual Women Rock! Girls and Guitars (TV special)
Herself - Singer
 
2001 Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (documentary)
Herself
 
2001 Musikbutikken (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 17 March 2001 (2001) … Herself
 
2000 Inside Look: Down from the Mountain (TV documentary short)
Herself
 
2000 Down from the Mountain (documentary)
Herself
 
2000 Intimate Portrait (TV series documentary)
Narrator
Trisha Yearwood (2000) … Narrator
 
1998-2000 Austin City Limits (TV series documentary)
Herself
Celebration of Townes Van Zandt (1998) … Herself
 
2000 MADtv (TV series)
Herself
Episode #5.12 (2000) … Herself
 
1999 The 1999 Billboard Music Awards (TV movie)
Herself
 
1999 The Martin Short Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.7 (1999) … Herself
 
1999 CBS This Morning (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 26 February 1999 (1999) … Herself
 
1996-1999 The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 12 February 1999 (1999) … Herself
Episode dated 12 August 1996 (1996) … Herself
 
1999 In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1999 An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash (TV special documentary)
Herself - Performer
 
1998 Workin' Man: A Tribute to Merle Haggard (TV special)
Herself
 
1998 Willie Nelson at the Teatro
Herself
 
1997 Nobel Peace Prize Concert (TV movie)
Herself
 
1997 Behind the Music (TV series documentary)
Herself
Lilith Fair (1997) … Herself
 
1997 Sessions at West 54th (TV series documentary)
Herself
 
1997 The South Bank Show (TV series documentary)
Herself
The South Bank Show Awards (1997) … Herself
 
1996 America's Music: The Roots of Country (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself (1996)
 
1996 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1996 Grand Ole Opry 70th Anniversary (TV special)
Herself
 
1994 Opryland's Country Christmas (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1994 Merle Haggard: An American Story (TV special)
Herself
 
1994 Michael Ball (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.6 (1994) … Herself
 
1993 A Day in the Life of Country Music (TV special)
Herself
 
1993 Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1993 Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1993 Country Music Association's 35th Anniversary (TV special)
Herself
 
1992 Child of Mine: Songs to Our Children (TV movie)
Herself
 
1991 The Full Moon Show (TV series documentary)
Herself
Nashville Music City USA (1991) … Herself
 
1989 Grammy Living Legends (TV movie)
Herself
 
1987-1989 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 18 May 1989 (1989) … Herself
Episode dated 13 March 1987 (1987) … Herself
 
1988 Baja Oklahoma (TV movie)
Herself
 
1988 A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (video documentary)
Herself
 
1987 Dolly (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.3 (1987) … Herself
 
1987 Farm Aid '87 (TV special)
Herself
 
1987 The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.15 (1987) … Herself
 
1986 The 28th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Herself
 
1983 Salute! (TV series)
Herself
Jerry Lee Lewis (1983) … Herself
 
1982 Bananas (TV series)
Herself - Singer
Episode dated 23 March 1982 (1982) … Herself - Singer
 
1982 Musikladen (TV series)
Episode #1.69 (1982)
 
1981 Johnny Cash and the Country Girls (TV movie)
Herself
 
1981 The 23rd Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)
Herself
 
1980 Honeysuckle Rose
Herself
 
1978 12th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV movie)
Herself - Performer
 
1978 The Last Waltz (documentary)
Herself - Performer
 
1977 The Midnight Special (TV series)
Herself
Episode #5.23 (1977) … Herself
 
1976 Dolly (TV series)
Herself - Performer
Episode #1.5 (1976) … Herself - Performer
 
1975 Rock Concert (TV series)
Herself
Episode #3.9 (1975) … Herself
 
1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.99 (1970) … Herself
Episode #2.89 (1970) … Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (15 titles)
2011 Country at the BBC (TV movie)
Herself
 
2011 Dolly Parton Tour TV (TV series documentary)
 
2011 Mark Knopfler: A Life in Songs (TV documentary)
Herself - Singer/Guitar
 
2009 Charlie Rose (TV series)
 
2009 The Queens of Country (video)
Herself - Performer
 
2007 Dolly Parton & Friends (video)
Herself
 
2006 CMT: The Greatest - 40 Greatest Albums (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2006 Today's Country Music (video)
Herself
 
2006 CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 CMT: Class of 1975 (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2004 Singing Songwriters (video)
Herself
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
 
1994 Dolly Parton: In Country (video documentary)
Herself
 
1994 The Crazy World of Dolly Parton (video documentary)
Herself
 
1988 Young Country (video short)
Herself
 

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Biography: :  -- Emmylou Harris credits Gram Parsons with her segue into country music and for teaching her how to use her voice to sing country music. The Last Waltz -- special ed. dvd Neil Young: Heart of Gold -- A film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

Album [Box Set]: "Portraits", 1996 (Reprise) See more »

Publicity Listings:

7 Interviews  | 3 Articles  | 4 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Snowracer

Height:

5' 5" (1.65 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

On the male-dominated 1970s music industry's attitude toward women: "ladies were regarded as a liability: the view was, they get pregnant and they freak out on the road, they're unreliable and they don't sell." See more »

Trivia:

Has collaborated on the albums of Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Neil Young, Bob Dylan (her vocals are prominently featured on his 1975 album Desire), Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Mark Knopfler, Anne Murray, and Willie Nelson. Performed duets on a Gram Parsons tribute album with Beck, Sheryl Crow and The Pretenders. See more »

Nickname:

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Star Sign:

Aries