Emmylou Harris

While performing in a Washington D.C. coffeehouse, she was discovered by former The 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 an 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.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.