Trophies aside, Harris, armed with her gorgeous mezzo-soprano voice (which, it must be said, has scarcely diminished over the years), has also built a vast, influential career stretching far outside the prescribed boundaries of country, folk and rock music.
Harris is a towering figure of song, having accrued nearly every accolade a musician can acquire over the span of a half-century-long career: Thirteen competitive Grammys, a 2008 induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame and a 2018 Grammy for lifetime achievement. (Not that her most recent turn on a North Texas stage, as an opener for John Mellencamp, was any fresher it was almost six years ago at then-Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie.) Saturday’s sold-out show was the first of two nights the 76-year-old singer-songwriter is scheduled to perform at the Longhorn, and it marked, from all available evidence, her first solo headlining set in Dallas in nearly 15 years. It was fitting, then, that time was a central preoccupation - often indirectly - of the evening’s headliner, Emmylou Harris. You could even almost feel it, the sensation of the ghosts of legends lingering in the shadows. It was evident in the colorful, historic murals adorning the exterior, or the modern art hanging in the suites ringing the perimeter of the restored room. It was there in the vintage photos lining the walls nearly from floor to ceiling at the entrance.
Time was everywhere you turned Saturday night at the Longhorn Ballroom.
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