Cowgirl's Prayer

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Cowgirl's Prayer
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released	August 1993
Recorded	Nashville, 1993
Genre	country
Length	?:?
Label	Warner Bros
Producer(s)	Allen Reynolds and Richard Bennett
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1] Rolling Stone [2]
Emmylou Harris chronology
At the Ryman (1992)	Cowgirl's Prayer (1993)	Wrecking Ball (1995)

Cowgirl's Prayer was a 1993 Emmylou Harris album. Coming immediately after 1992's live acoustic At the Ryman album, Cowgirl's Prayer was a collection of similarly subdued material (with a couple of rockers thrown in, notably "High Powered Love", the album's first single). Released at a time when older artists (e.g. anyone over 40) were being dropped from country radio playlists, the album received little airplay, despite positive reviews, and its relative commercial failure is said to have served as a catalyst for Harris' decision to change course with the harder edged sound of her subsequent work, beginning with 1995's rockish Wrecking Ball.

[edit] Track listing

1. "A Ways to Go" (Lainie Marsh) – 3:38
2. "The Light" (Kieran Kane/Emmylou Harris) – 2:29
3. "High Powered Love" (Tony Joe White) – 3:08
4. "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold/Cindy Walker) – 3:07
5. "Prayer in Open D" (Emmylou Harris) – 4:17
6. "Crescent City" (Lucinda Williams) – 3:31
7. "Lovin' You Again" (Roger Ferris) – 5:31
8. "Jerusalem Tomorrow" (David Olney) – 4:17
9. "Thanks to You" (Jesse Winchester) – 3:56
10. "I Hear a Call" (Tony Arata) – 2:50
11. "Ballad of a Runaway Horse" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:35