American musician
September 9, 1979.
Ranked #22 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Has won 12 Grammy awards.
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.
While performing in a Washington D.C. coffeehouse, she was discovered by former Byrds member Chris Hillman , who recommended her to Gram Parsons for his first solo album, GP. Harris toured as a member of Parsons band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, in 1973, and recorded on their album Grievous Angel. After Parsons died of overdose, Harris was devastated and wrote her most well-known song Boulder to Birmingham. Three more of their duets were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights, in 1976.
Was high school class valedictorian, and won a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Although she has written and recorded many of her own songs, she is primarily known as an interpreter of other composers works and as a backing vocalist and duet partner for other artists.
Is a Vegetarian and supporter of PETA.
Attended Gar-field High School Homecoming Dance on the arm of Paul Gefrich in 1963.
[What she loves about singing country is] "its restraint, which,intensifies the emotion in the music".
The most dismaying thing to me is that I was too self-absorbed in what,I was getting from Gram musically to notice what was happening to him.
