Up from the Village

Emmylou Harris is one of my favorite performers of all time. I have most of her albums, but have only ever really seen her live once, in the early "aughts" when she did Carnegie Hall. The album just out at that time was 'Stumble into Grace.'

I did see her live the other night, sort of, when I watched her concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors at Damrosch Park that was streamed live. She appeared with Rodney Crowell. Most of the concert came through the desktop, but did break up a few times, requiring re-connection. No matter.

Always one of the best things about seeing someone live is what they might say to the audience between songs. Some performers share a good bit, some not so much. Her portion of the concert was just long enough, but wasn't filled with too much chatter.

She did manage to almost whisper into the microphone toward the end of her show that, "I was a lousy waitress in your town once." She truly sounded apologetic in case anyone was out there still expecting their French fries to come out of the kitchen.

The NYT apparently loves Emmylou as well, After the Carnegie concert the reviewer called her "the high priestess." And Wednesday's concert, and the series of concerts, got a fair amount of favorable mention.

I figured Emmylou was into her 60s, but the Times being a newspaper that must have a policy of revealing women's ages, does tell us she is now 67. Sixty-seven, subtract just starting out, and maybe she is the waitress who left my French fries in the kitchen.

Greenwich Village is still there, and performers still come through there. May they all be as good and last as long as Emmylou.

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