Country Pop Bites: Emmylou Harris – April 27

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2008 Emmylou Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during a medallion ceremony in Nashville?

It’s true! Also inducted that day was Ernest "Pop" Stoneman.

Check out this Emmylou Harris video!

Here are 5 interesting facts about Emmylou Harris that you might not have known.

• Her father was a decorated Marine Corps pilot who spent 16 months as a prisoner of war in Korea during the early 1950s.
• She studied drama at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before dropping out to move to New York City and pursue a musical career.
• Harris met the songwriter Tom Slocum, whom she married in 1969. They had a daughter together and divorced a short time later.
•  Harris gave up touring while pregnant with her second child, Meghann, and instead recorded a hit Christmas album, Light of the Stable, with a title single that featured guest vocals by Dolly Parton, Neil Young, and Linda Ronstadt.
• She sang guest vocals on Bob Dylan's 1976 album Desire.