Country Roads: Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler
Monday, May 08, 2006
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Emmylou Harris performs on July 22, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images)
Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler share their new record "All the Roadrunning". The album took nearly seven years to complete, and is filled with a mix of "love 'em" and "leave 'em" songs. Plus, music and the Cold War. Back in the mid-1950s, the U.S. State Department deployed an unlikely tool in the propaganda war against the Soviets: federally funded tours of jazz musicians, like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Author Penny Von Escher discusses this historical moment and her book "Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War."
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Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler
Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler are two of today’s most unmistakable voices in country and pop music. They share their album, "The Roadrunning".
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