Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell's new duo album, The Traveling Kind, is due out next week. But you don't need to wait till then to hear it: the album is streaming in full all this week as an NPR First Listen. "To generations of folk, country and roots listeners, these two are, indeed, archetypes of trend-outlasting creative restlessness," says NPR Music's Jewly Hight. "Here, they consciously embrace the full breadth of their expression ... This is what it sounds like when true equals, both deep into their journeys, draw out the best in each other."
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell's new duo album, The Traveling Kind, is due out next week on Nonesuch Records. But you don't need to wait till then to hear it: the album is streaming in full all this week as an NPR First Listen at npr.org. The album, produced by Joe Henry, follows the longtime friends’ Grammy-winning first duet album, 2013’s Old Yellow Moon, and comprises 11 duet tracks, including six new songs written by Harris and Crowell with co-writing by Mary Carr, Cory Chisel, Will Jennings, and Larry Klein.
"To generations of folk, country and roots listeners, these two are, indeed, archetypes of trend-outlasting creative restlessness," says NPR Music's Jewly Hight. "Here, they consciously embrace the full breadth of their expression ..."
Hight later concludes: "As they swap lines and leads between his reedy resilience and her gossamer vibrato, Harris and Crowell don't just share the spotlight. They also share the weight of legacy, influence and lifelong artistic investment, bearing down when the emotional heft of a song calls for it, loosening up and growing playful when it doesn't, and altogether lightening the load for each other. This is what it sounds like when true equals, both deep into their journeys, draw out the best in each other."
Read more and listen to the complete album, streaming now at npr.org.
To pre-order The Traveling Kind and download the title track and "You Can't Say We Didn't Try," head to iTunes or the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders also include an exclusive, limited-edition print autographed by Harris and Crowell. Harris and Crowell will play a series of intimate shows in support of the record in the United States starting this Thursday in San Francisco. For details, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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