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Emmylou Harris's Last Date had a nobler purpose than scaling the country charts in 1982. Harris envisioned the album as a statement for her Hot Band's preeminence as a live-gig ensemble. To prove that point, she assembled Last Date's 12 tracks from a tour of California honky-tonks, places where Harris imagined a listener might get the essence of country music--which seen through these tracks more closely resembles the later-emerging alternative-country scene than most of the 1990s' commercial "young" country. She chose a program of cover tunes, no fewer than four of them either written by or associated strongly with her former leader, the late Gram Parsons. The others come from all over--Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Hank Snow, Floyd Cramer, Conway Twitty, and Buck Owens. What each gets here is a new paint job, with the Hot Band driving the tunes hard (thanks to drummer John Ware) and Harris's voice nearly crackling with intensity at times. Aside from Ware, the Hot Band lineup is not Emmylou's most acclaimed, but it is a unit fired up to tackle tunes that Harris simply claims for herself--just as slyly as she claims the top shelf in the world of live country music during her Hot Band's 15-year existence. --Andrew Bartlett
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What Customers Say About Last Date:
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I purchased this CD on the previous reviews. Emmily Lou Harris is one of my favourite artists. However, I have to say that I prefer her Duets album and All the Road Running. But glad to have this CD as part of my collection as this is one of her earlier works.
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A superb live performance of country songs featuring Emmylou and her Hot Band. Written by legendary music figures, such as: Hank Snow, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens, Bruce Springsteen, Gram Parsons, and Neil Young, these gems celebrate Harris's dedication to the folk/country roots of her Alabama/Virginia/N. Carolina origins and later transported to California.Copy written in 1982 by Warner Bros. Records,Inc., the album was resurrected in 2008 as a compact disk; a quality endeavor and certainly deserving of a place in any Harris collection.
Classic EmmyLou, angelic voice with great sensitivity to the music and lyrics. Very much a must for any EmmyLou fan.
The product is what I expected. It arrived on time and in the condition advertised.
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