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EMMYLOU HARRIS & THE RED DIRT BOYS City Winery, Nashville, November 9

“ENOUGH of this happy stuff,” Emmylou Harris declares, a few songs in. “I know why you come to see me… Those sad songs.” That’s her introduction to “Red Dirt Girl” from her 2000 album of the same title, and it’s certainly not a happy song. In fact, it flirts with Southern gothic: the bucolic childhood of thelike she’s choking back a sob.

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