The Emmylou Harris Factor

1. Emmylou Harris herself won the best-reissue voting with her five-disc, 88-track retrospective, Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems.2. Miranda Lambert acknowledged Harris as a key role model by devoting the last track on her poll-topping album to “Easy From Now On,” a song most famously recorded by Harris and co-written by June Carter’s daughter Carlene and Guy Clark’s wife Susanna.3. Patty Griffin, who sings a duet with Harris on “Songbird,” wrote “Getting Ready” for Lambert’s album, saw her own release, Children Running Through, voted No. 5 in the poll’s best-album category and finished in the top six in the best-female-vocalist and best-songwriter voting.4. Steve Earle, who also sings a duet with Harris on Songbird, saw his own release, Washington Square Serenade, voted No. 9 in the poll’s best-album category and finished in the top 10 in the best-male vocalist and best-songwriter voting.5. Gram Parsons, who sings two duets with Harris on “Songbird,” led the Flying Burrito Brothers on the poll’s No. 2 reissue: Archives Volume One: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969.6. Rodney Crowell, who succeeded Parsons as Harris’ favorite harmony partner, is all over Songbird and produced Elizabeth Cook’s No. 16 album, Balls.7. Willie Nelson, who sings a duet with Harris on Songbird, co-led the No. 23 album, Last of the Breed, with Merle Haggard and Ray Price and also sang on Haggard’s No. 4 reissue, Legends of American Music: The Original Outlaw.8. Randy Scruggs, who sings a trio with Harris on Songbird, played guitar on Lambert’s No. 1 album.9. Buddy Miller, Harris’ longtime music director, is all over Songbird and lent harmony vocals to Lambert’s No. 1 album and to Levon Helm’s No. 11 album, Dirt Farmer.