Emmylou HarrisProfile: Best of Emmylou Harris

That crystalline soprano floats over pedal steel and tight harmony like sunlight through a screen door. "Boulder to Birmingham" aches with grief written after Gram Parsons died, every note trembling at the edge. "Together Again" turns Buck Owens into pure heartbreak, and "Two More Bottles of Wine" kicks up a loose, grinning barroom strut. Twelve cuts from her early Reprise run, hot country one minute and silky countrypolitan the next. Start here and you'll never stop.