Trio 2 (album)
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| Studio album by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris | ||
| Released | November 17, 1998 | |
| Genre | Country | |
| Length | 41:13 | |
| Label | Asylum Records | |
| Producer(s) | George Massenburg | |
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| Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris chronology | ||
| Trio (1987) |
Trio II (1998) |
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A dozen years after the release of their original Trio album, the country music supergroup returned with another in the same vein. Any Linda Ronstadt fans listening to this album might have encountered a sense of déjà vu, however, since five of the ten tracks on this album first appeared with almost identical arrangements on 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," "The Blue Train," and the title song to the Ronstadt album, the Randy Newman-composed "Feels Like Home." The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard country albums chart, while its predecessor had risen all the way to #1.
The songs were actually recorded in 1994 by Parton, Ronstad and Harris, but label disputes and conflicting schedules of the three women prefvented its release at the time. Eventually, Ronstadt remixed the five above-mentioned tracks (sans Parton's vocals) to incluide 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 singes (mainstream U.S. country radio had long since dropped nearly all artists approaching or over 50 from their playlists by the late 1990s), Trio 2 sold more copies than any of the three women's recent solo releases, and was nominated for a Grammy.
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 video for "After the Gold Rush".
[edit] Track listing
- "Lover's Return" (A.P. Carter/Maybelle Carter/Sara Carter) – 4:00
- "High Sierra" (Harley Allen) – 4:21
- "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?" (Dolly Parton) – 3:16
- "After the Gold Rush" (Neil Young) – 3:31
- "The Blue Train" (Jennifer Kimball/Tom Kimmel) – 4:57
- "I Feel the Blues Movin' In" (Del McCoury) – 4:31
- "You'll Never Be the Sun" (Donagh Long) – 4:43
- "He Rode All the Way to Texas" (John Starling) – 3:07
- "Feels Like Home" (Randy Newman) – 4:47
- "When We're Gone, Long Gone" (Kieran Kane/James Paul O'Hara) – 4:00
