My wife and I went to see this wonderful concert on Saturday night at Calvin College. I don't have time right now for a long review, but let me put it to you this way: After Neko's set was done, I thought that Emmylou was going to have a lot to live up to, and really she didn't (although her set was good). Neko's band and Neko were excellent. She has some real quality musicians playing with her, and their renditions of Neko's songs were spot on. They played most of the songs off of Blacklisted and many off Fox Confessor. If you get a chance to see her, I highly recommend it. Here's what a local reviewer said about the show:

The legendary Emmylou Harris and alt-country/indie-pop fave Neko Case brought boatloads of stellar harmonies, classic country textures and poignant songs to the Calvin College Fieldhouse, wrapping up the college’s biggest and most successful Festival of Faith and Music ever.

Because the concert ended after Press deadlines, I’ll have a full review of Saturday’s show in Monday’s Your Life section. But here are some highlights to tide you over:


Harris’ 94-minute set -- performed in a quartet with a percussionist, guitarist and bassist -- covered music spanning her three-decades-plus career, from 1975’s “Pieces of the Sky” to 2006’s “All the Roadrunning” (recorded with Mark Knopler).


Songs from 1999’s “Red Dirt Girl” and 2003’s “Stumble into Grace,” as well as heartfelt renditions of Neil Young’s “After the Goldrush,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” and Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s “Goin’ Back to Harlan.”


In the only shared Harris/Case double-bill of the year (set up by Calvin’s Ken Heffner), Case and her five-piece band opened the night with a full, 55-minute set heavy on songs from her latest album, “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood,” including bracing versions of “Hold On, Hold On” and “Star Witness.” Her set actually had more twang than Harris.