During the ‘90s, Harris knocked out audiences around town with an aggregation she calls "Mixed Knots", an all-star string ensemble with a shifting cast of characters including Cranston Clements and Jimmy Robinson on acoustic guitars, Mitchell Moss on mandolin, Tom Marron at the violin, and Paul Clement on acoustic bass.

Augmented by the "Cold Bold Soul Chorus", an equally stellar collective including Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson of the "Continental Drifters", Holley Bendtsen and Suzy Malone of the "Pfister Sisters", Annie and Jan Clements, and ex-Evangeline singer Kathleen Steiffel. "Little Queenie & Mixed Knots" documented a May 1996 performance at Carrolton Station and released it on CD as "Q Ball" (Deeva Records).

"Q Ball" features songs of nearly every description, from Harris originals to tunes by Robbie Robertson, Randy Newman, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Jimi Hendiix, to extremely personal interpretations of selections from the book of American popular song. "Repertoire – that’s my raison d’etre," sighs Harris. "As much as I love to write, I really, really love to reinterpret things that other people began, and take them somewhere else."

- John Sinclair