Blue Kentucky Girl (Emmylou Harris album)

Blue Kentucky Girl

Studio album by Emmylou Harris

Released

April 1979

Recorded

Nashville, 1979

Emmylou Harris chronology

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
(1978)

Blue Kentucky Girl
(1979)

Light of the Stable
(1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Guardian	^[2]

Blue Kentucky Girl is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1979. The album features delving more traditional country than the country-rock sound of Harris' previous releases. Songs include work by Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons. Rodney Crowell's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" featured harmonies by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, and came out of the women's ill-fated 1978 recording sessions, where they first attempted to record a "trio" album (nearly a full decade before they actually succeeded in doing so).

The album won the 1980 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. "Beneath Still Waters" became Harris' fourth #1 hit, covers of The Drifters' 1960 hit "Save The Last Dance For Me" and the title track (originally recorded by Loretta Lynn) were top ten hits on the US country charts.

In 2006, the album ranked #20 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sister's Coming Home" (with Tanya Tucker)	Willie Nelson	2:52
2.	"Beneath Still Waters"	Dallas Frazier	3:41
3.	"Rough and Rocky"	Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs	3:50
4.	"Hickory Wind"	Gram Parsons/Bob Buchanan	4:01
5.	"Save the Last Dance for Me"	Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman	3:30
6.	"Sorrow in the Wind" (with Sharon & Cheryl White)	Jean Ritchie	3:28
7.	"They'll Never Take His Love From Me"	Leon Payne	2:34
8.	"Everytime You Leave" (with Don Everly)	Charlie Louvin/Ira Louvin	2:58
9.	"Blue Kentucky Girl"	Johnny Mullins	3:17
10.	"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (harmony by Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton)	Rodney Crowell	3:56
11.	"Cheatin' Is" (with Glen Campbell) (bonus track for 2004 CD re-issue)	Rafe VanHoy	2:28
12.	"I Know an Ending When it Comes" (bonus track for 2004 CD re-issue)	Hank Cochran	2:52

Personnel

Brian Ahern: Acoustic Guitar, High-Strung Guitar, Bass, Percussion, 6-String Banjo
Duke Bardwell: Bass
Mike Bowden: Bass
Tony Brown: Piano
James Burton: Electric Guitar
Rodney Crowell: Acoustic Guitar, High-Strung Guitar
Lincoln Davis Jr.: Accordion
Hank DeVito: Pedal Steel
Don Everly: Duet Vocals
Emory Gordy, Jr.: Bass
Glen D. Hardin: Piano, String Arrangements
Emmylou Harris: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Ben Keith: Pedal Steel
Albert Lee: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin
Dolly Parton: Backing Vocals
Bill Payne: Piano
Mickey Raphael: Harmonica
Linda Ronstadt: Backing Vocals
Ricky Skaggs: Fiddle, 5-String Fiddle, Mandolin, Backing Vocals
Fayssoux Starling: Backing Vocals
Tanya Tucker: Duet Vocals
Ron Tutt: Drums
John Ware: Drums
Cheryl White: Duet Vocals, Backing Vocals
Sharon White: Duet Vocals, Backing Vocals

Technical personnel

Brian Ahern: Producer, Engineer
Donivan Cowart: Engineer
Bradley Hartman: Engineer
Stuart Taylor: Engineer

References

↑ Ankeny, Jason. Blue Kentucky Girl at AllMusic
↑ Sweeting, Adam (9 April 2004). "Emmylou Harris, Blue Kentucky Girl". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

Emmylou Harris Blue Kentucky Girl liner notes

Emmylou Harris

Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain

Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)

Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy

Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)

Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"

Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)

Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)

Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

Related articles	Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

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