In honor of Dylan’s upcoming tour backed by Elvis Costello here’s a clip (or play below) of Elvis singing the Boudleaux/Bryant classic, Love Hurts, with Emmylou Harris.

Emmylou sang this back in the 1970s with Gram Parsons, on the Grievous Angel album, and their performance of it stands, in my opinion, as one of the precious few absolutely perfect recordings ever made, by anyone. Ever. In the universe. One of those proofs that God exists; i.e. that it is just absurd to think that random chemical reactions could have produced amoebas that would have ultimately resulted in Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons making this record together in just this way. Ludicrous.

Costello and Emmylou don’t reach those heights at all, but it is nice all the same. And as Elvis has always been a big Gram Parsons fan, it must have been an intense privilege for him to share the mike with Harris on the same tune.

And yes, that’s none other than Larry Campbell on the pedal steel guitar.

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