Evangeline (album)

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Evangeline
Evangeline cover
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released April 1981
Recorded Nashville, 1978 - 1980
Genre country
Length  ?:?
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s) Brian Ahern
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 2.5/5 stars [1]

Emmylou Harris chronology
Light of the Stable
(1980)
Evangeline
(1981)
Cimarron
(1981)


Evangeline was a 1981 album by Emmylou Harris that was comprised mostly of leftover material from past recording sessions, which hadn't fit into any of her other albums. Songs included a remake of "Mister Sandman" (from the ill-fated trio sessions with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt), "Evangeline", which she had previously performed with The Band, Rodney Crowell's "Ashes By Now", and a cover of John Fogerty's "Bad Moon Rising". Though it received mixed reviews upon its release, the album sold well. A single release of "Mister Sandman" did well on the charts, though neither Ronstadt's nor Parton's record companies would allow their artists' vocals to be used on the single, so Harris rerecorded the song, singing all three parts for the single release.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I Don't Have to Crawl" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:46
  2. "How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis/Nancy Hamilton) – 3:21
  3. "Spanish Johnny" [with Waylon Jennings] (Paul Siebel) – 3:50
  4. "Bad Moon Rising" (John Fogerty) – 2:40
  5. "Evangeline" (Robbie Robertson) – 3:09
  6. "Hot Burrito #2" (Gram Parsons/Chris Ethridge) – 3:04
  7. "Millworker" (James Taylor) – 4:03
  8. "Oh Atlanta" (Bill Payne) – 2:58
  9. "Mister Sandman" [harmony by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt] (Pat Ballard) – 2:20
  10. "Ashes by Now" (Rodney Crowell) – 4:24