Our friends at the Marine Corps League
have been great supporters of our
AdoptaPlatoon Soldier Support Effort.
Lets help them out for a change. With a
little coaxing we might get them to sing
their Hymn for us.
Announcing the 2nd Annual Spaghetti
Dinner fund raiser of the Pvt George
Phillips Detachment of the Marine Corps
League. The price is right and the food
is good. The funds raised from this
event are used to support our various
programs throughout the year.
What the troops say.
Thank you all for your ongoing support for our troops across the world. God bless you all
TSgt
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Just want to say that all the support that you give is great. It helps a lot to know we have the support of the country we fight for no matter the reason.
Sgt
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I would like to thank all those who pledge their support to service members and our great country. Your support will never go unnoticed. I would also like to thank all the vets. Your service to our country will always be remembered!
SSG
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I would just like to thank each and every one of you for your care packages to all of us in the service. I will be heading over to Iraq for the 5th time. Every time I come back home from a deployment, as I walk through the airports and people clap and shake my hand, it gives me a sense of accomplishment, knowing that I'm doing what I can to protect this great country and all of my fellow Americans. Again thank you all and God Bless!
SrA, SLC
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I just wanted to tell everyone back home thank you.... Thank you for your support and for caring about me and my brothers and sisters out here. Everyday I see packages arrive for someone and I know that package is warming someone's heart and re-energizing them for whatever mission comes down to us. Thank you so much. Thank you again.
SPC
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The World
According to Jake
Emmylou Harris was born April 4, 1947,
in Birmingham, Ala., but grew up near
Washington D.C. As a college student in
the late '60s, she sang with a local folk
duo, eventually moving to Greenwich
Village in New York City to make a stab
at a professional music career. With a
distinctive soprano and a perpetual focus
on lyrics, she played the clubs on the local
folk scene, occasionally sharing the stage
with legends like Jerry Jeff Walker. After a brief marriage, a new baby, a move to Nashville and a constant struggle to make ends meet, Harris packed it in and returned to D.C. to live with her parents.
Two members of the Flying Burrito Brothers heard her at a club in D.C., and they introduced her to Gram Parsons, a heralded pioneer in the burgeoning country-rock movement. One of the most celebrated musical pairings in country music history, Harris toured and recorded with Parsons until he died young in 1973. "After he was gone, I wanted to carry on with what I thought he would have wanted me to do, bringing certain elements of folk music, with its emphasis on the lyric, trying electric things, but always coming back to that country base," she has said.
Emmylou Harris has been hailed as a major figure in several of America's most important musical movements of the past three decades. A steadfast supporter of roots music and a skilled interpreter of compelling songs, she also has been associated with a diverse array of admiring collaborators.
Harris' contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years she also has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own.
"Once I'm into the songwriting mode, I just chisel and chisel and chisel away. But sometimes there are these wonderful moments when a song just comes in a snap. That's like the reward that you've earned for all the agony on all the other songs," Harris says "I don't know that I have a particular method. When I'm home, I go into that room every day. Strum on the guitar. Try some tunings. Scatter notes around everywhere. I don't use a computer. I sing into a cassette player and write things down. Towards suppertime, I'll take a break and watch some TV. Then after everybody has gone to bed, I'll go back to work until two or three in the morning. Sometimes I'll go upstairs, because I keep guitars up there, too."
Emmylou Harris is invited to perform everywhere from the massive Bonnaroo jam-band rock festival to bluegrass concerts: "That just delights me," she admits. "It proves what I've always thought: that people are eclectic in their tastes, just like me. Most people don't listen to only one kind of music. For the most part, I think people just want to hear good music."
That is a credo she has lived by throughout her career. Harris took up guitar as a teenager inspired by the folk music of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins and Peter, Paul and Mary. Starving-artist stints in Greenwich Village and Nashville led to regular club work in Washington D.C. Country-rock visionary Gram Parsons discovered her there and brought her to Los Angeles to become his duet partner in 1972. "I lucked into this whole thing," she comments. "One little millimeter would have made the difference. If my babysitter hadn't been at that Flying Burrito Brothers concert and given Gram my phone number, if Gram hadn't come into my life, who knows what would have become of me?"
After apprenticing Parsons, she emerged as a solo star with Pieces of the Sky in 1975. The album electrified the country-music world, becoming the first of her eight consecutive gold or platinum records. Today, Emmylou Harris is regarded as a key figure in a movement that united rock audiences with country traditionalists. She made country music "hip" and brought it to a vast youth market for the first time.
In the 1990s Harris took a leading role in yet another musical revolution-the Americana movement that gave country music its "alternative" wing. She reinvented her sound with the acoustic band The Nash Ramblers and honored one of country music's most legendary concert halls with the Grammy-winning Live at the Ryman CD of 1991. She earned another Grammy four years later with Wrecking Ball.
The wide range of her repertoire is mirrored by the musicians who have sought her out as a collaborator. She has recorded with artists from diverse points on the musical compass such as The Judds, The Band, Johnny Cash, Leo Kottke, Bob Dylan, Little Feat, Tammy Wynette, Neil Young, Bill Monroe, Lyle Lovett, John Denver, Roy Orbison, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Garth Brooks, Lucinda Williams, and George Jones. Stars such as Ricky Skaggs, Rodney Crowell, and The Whites have emerged from the ranks of her bands. Harris was among the first to champion the songwriting of such figures as Crowell, Jesse Winchester, Townes Van Zandt, Delbert McClinton, Carlene Carter, Guy Clark, and David Olney.
Billboard magazine honored Emmylou Harris with its prestigious Century Award in 1999. At the time, she was lauded as a "truly venturesome, genre-transcending pathfinder" who being given the award "to acknowledge the uncommon excellence of (her) still-unfolding body of work."
