Trio (album)

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Trio

Studio album by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
Released	February 1987
Recorded	Los Angeles, January - November 1986
Genre	Country
Length	38:24
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	George Massenberg
All Music Guide (4.5/5) link Robert Christgau (B+) link
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris chronology
	Trio (1987)	Trio II (1999)

Trio was a 1987 album featuring country and rock superstars Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. Longtime friends and admirers of one another, Parton, Ronstadt and Harris first attempted to record an album together in the mid 1970s, but scheduling conflicts and other difficulties (including the fact that the three women all recorded for different record labels) prevented its release. (Some of the fruits of these aborted '70s recording sessions did make it to the women's respective solo recordings.) When Trio was finally released in early 1987, it spawned four hit country singles -- including the country #1 remake of Phil Spector's 1958 hit by the Teddy Bears, "To Know Him is to Love Him" -- and earned a Grammy. The three women later released a second album together, Trio 2, in 1999. Ronstadt and Harris also released a duet album in 2000, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions.

Trio reached number 1 on the U.S. country album charts, and number 6 on the U.S. pop album charts, and won a 1988 Grammy for Best Country Collaboration. (It was also nominated for Album of the Year.) It was produced by George Massenberg.