Trio II

Trio II
Studio album by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
Released	January 24, 1999
Genre	Country
Length	41:13
Label	Asylum
Producer	George Massenburg, Linda Ronstadt
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris chronology
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[2]
Los Angeles Times	[3]
Q	[4]
Robert Christgau	[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]

Trio II is the second album featuring collaboration between American singer/songwriters Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton.

A dozen years after the release of their Platinum, Grammy-winning Trio album, the country music supergroup returned with another in the same vein. Five of the ten tracks on this album first appeared on Linda Ronstadt's 1995 album Feels Like Home. These five tracks were "Lover's Return", "High Sierra", a cover of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" (with Valerie Carter and string arrangements by David Campbell), "The Blue Train" (a Top 40 solo hit for Ronstadt), and the title song to the Ronstadt album, the Randy Newman-composed "Feels Like Home". The album reached the Top Five on Billboard's Country Albums chart as well as #62 on Billboard's main album listing.

The songs were actually recorded in 1994 by Parton, Ronstadt and Harris, but label disputes and conflicting schedules of the three women prevented its release at the time. Eventually, Ronstadt remixed the five above-mentioned tracks (sans Parton's vocals) to include in Feels Like Home. In 1999 (after Parton and Harris had parted ways with their respective labels), they decided to finally release the album as originally recorded. Though it yielded no hit singles (mainstream U.S. country radio had long since dropped most artists approaching or over 50 from their playlists by the late 1990s), Trio 2 was certified Gold by the RIAA,^[7] and won the trio another Grammy Award in 2000.

Childhood photos of Harris, Parton and Ronstadt were used for the album's cover, when a photo shoot proved impossible (due to the three artists' busy schedules), though they did manage to assemble for a short promotional tour in early 1999, and to film a popular music video for "After the Gold Rush" which was filmed inside a synagogue in New York City that January.

Though scheduling conflicts would not allow for an extended concert tour, the three did do a short promotional tour to support the album, including performances on CBS This Morning, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show, and The Late Show with David Letterman.

"Softly & Tenderly" was recorded for the album but was cut. It was included on the 2007 Emmylou Harris boxset, Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Lover's Return"	A.P. Carter, Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter	Ronstadt	4:00
2.	"High Sierra"	Harley Allen	Ronstadt	4:21
3.	"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?"	Dolly Parton	Harris	3:16
4.	"After the Gold Rush"	Neil Young	Parton	3:31
5.	"The Blue Train"	Jennifer Kimball, Tom Kimmel	Ronstadt	4:57
6.	"I Feel the Blues Movin' In"	Del McCoury	Parton	4:31
7.	"You'll Never Be the Sun"	Donagh Long	Harris	4:43
8.	"He Rode All the Way to Texas"	John Starling	Parton	3:07
9.	"Feels Like Home"	Randy Newman	Ronstadt	4:47
10.	"When We're Gone, Long Gone"	Kieran Kane, James Paul O'Hara	Harris	4:00

Chart performance

Chart (1999)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	4
U.S. Billboard 200	62
Canadian RPM Country Albums	4

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Entertainment Weekly review
3. Los Angeles Times review
4. Album reviews at CD Universe
5. Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
6. Rolling Stone review
7. "American album certifications – Parton,D.,Ronstadt,L.,Harris,E – Trio II". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH

External links

• Trio II at Dolly Parton On-Line