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  • Boulder To Birmingham
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  • 1975 songs
  • 1976 singles
  • Country ballads
  • Emmylou Harris songs
  • The Hollies songs
  • The Walker Brothers songs
  • Vehicle wreck ballads
  • Songs written by Bill Danoff
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  • %22Boulder to Birmingham%22 is a track from the 1975 album Pieces of the Sky by Emmylou Harris. The song was written by Harris and Bill Danoff. It has served as something of a signature tune for the artist and recounts her feelings of grief in the years following the death of country rock star and mentor Gram Parsons. Early in her career, Harris toured with Gram Parsons and sang on his 1973 album GP. The song is known for its chorus %22I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham/I would hold my life in his saving grace/I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham/If I thought I could see, I could see your face.%22Danoff recorded the song with his group, the Starland Vocal Band, on their self-titled debut album. A version of the song was a hit in New Zealand for The Hollies, reaching number ten there, and later appeared on their album A Crazy Steal. A version was recorded in 1975 by Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers on their No Regrets album. In 2012, American alternative rock band, The Fray, released a cover of the song featuring Harris as a bonus track on their record, Scars & Stories.Dolly Parton included a cover on the song on her 1976 All I Can Do album. Joan Baez cut a live version of the song and it originally appeared on her 1976 live album From Every Stage; the track later appeared in the compilation %22Joan Baez: The Complete A&M Recordings%22 (released September 23, 2003).Irish vocalist/songwriter Liz Madden recorded a new version on her 2015 album LEGACY released by Valley Entertainment. This version included new lyrics in the Irish language as part of the arrangement by both herself and guitarist/songwriter Fionan de Barra.
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  • Boulder To Birmingham
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