Awesome write up Mark. Seriously I am keeping it becauseI went to see Emmylou myself about 10 months ago and your description is exactly in every way what my impressions were of Emmylous show with this band. I had the same observations about her voice. However what was really interesting to me as a singer myself has been the very fact that shes no longer a young singer and all that but I came to the following conclusions. first of all shes been on the road for a long time now about 24 months straight. So maybe she has a cold or maybe shes been forced to do shows when she should have rested. I was thinking about thsi and then I thought of something else, when you are young you dont have to warm up very much. You can crawl out of your limo and get up there and do some perfect pitch but when you get way past 30 it gets alot harder. You need to warm up. So then it occurred to me that maybe the early show when she had difficulty hitting a high notes (as in The Pearl) and I thought that later in her show after she had gotten to warm up she was in fact hitting the same notes she had difficulty with earlier. So it could be fatigue or it could be a cold or it could be rust. Anyway thats a thought I thought. Marcel
