Spyboy

Emmylou Harris will release "Spyboy" on November 7th, 2025, via New West Records. The 19 track live album was produced by Buddy Miller and Harris and features Miller on guitar and vocals, Brady Blade on drums, percussion and vocals and Daryl Johnson on bass, djembe, percussion and vocals.

Originally issued on CD by Eminent Records in 1998, the 2025 edition of Spyboy features 5 previously unreleased recordings of the band performing Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker’s “Thing About You”, Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain Of Sand”, Bill Monroe’s “Get Up John”, Lucinda Williams’ “Sweet Old World”, as well as the Harris and Kate & Anna McGarrigle co-write “All I Left Behind”.

It also features updated artwork as well as new and updated liner notes written by Harris and Miller. A limited pressing of Spyboy was made available in celebration of Record Store Day in May but sold out.

Spyboy grew out of "Wrecking Ball", Harris’ groundbreaking 1995 collaboration with the producer Daniel Lanois. That album, among her best and most celebrated, offers a very different idea of what country music could be, how it might sound and move. “It was such a sonic departure for me”, says Harris. “When we were making the record, I was thinking, OK, I love this, but how am I going to play it? I’d had the Hot Band and then I’d had my bluegrass band, the Nash Ramblers. I loved playing with them, but I knew this was different”.

For the subsequent tour, Lanois temporarily played guitar, before being replaced by Miller, and brought in bassist Johnson and drummer Blade. In 1996 and 1997 they toured America and Europe together. The recordings of those shows were collated on "Spyboy".