Boulder To Birmingham (track)
by Emmylou Harris
Year: 1975
From the album Pieces Of The Sky (track #4)
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Boulder To Birmingham appears on the following album(s) by Emmylou Harris:
- Pieces Of The Sky (track #4) (this album) (1975)
- Profile: Best Of Emmylou Harris (track #11) (compilation) (1978)
- Spyboy (track #12) (1998)
- The Very Best Of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways (track #2) (compilation) (2005)
- Portraits (track #1) (compilation) (1996)
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| ! | 04/18/2026 18:35 |  HoldenM | 9,396 | 91/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2026 09:32 | Imaybeparanoid | 52,674 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/23/2025 21:14 | tomr37 | 413 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2025 10:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 166,837 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2025 04:56 |  Norshammar | 1,424 | 86/100 |
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Martini 11/01/2020 21:52 | #260065
Heartbreaking. Absolutely beautiful.
buzzdainer 11/23/2016 20:24 | #179012
Emmylou Harris's touching elegy to her star-crossed lover and musical collaborator Gram Parsons. This song has special resonance for me, as I once moved from the Deep South to Boulder to live with my then-partner, and you can be assured I would have walked all that way just to see her face. The song's reference to wildfires also has significance to me personally, as I lived in a small mountain town called Gold Hill and rented a cabin that had been one of two structures that nearly burned to the ground in the Fourmile Canyon Fire in 2010. I wasn't there at the time, luckily, but the charred trees from that fire comprised the view out my bedroom window.
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