Blue Kentucky Girl

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Blue Kentucky Girl
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released	July 1979
Recorded	Nashville, 1979
Genre	country
Length	?:?
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Brian Ahern
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Emmylou Harris chronology
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (1978) Blue Kentucky Girl (1979) Light of the Stable (1979)

Blue Kentucky Girl was a 1979 album by Emmylou Harris that found the singer delving much more deeply into traditional country than the country-rock sound of her previous releases. Songs included work by Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs and Loretta Lynn. Rodney Crowell's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" featured harmonies by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, and came out of the women's ill-fated 1978 recording sessions, where they first attempted to record a "trio" album (nearly a full decade before they actually succeeded in doing so). A cover of The Drifters' 1960 hit "Save The Last Dance For Me" was a top ten hit on the US country charts.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Sister's Coming Home" [with Tanya Tucker] (Willie Nelson) – 2:52
2. "Beneath Still Waters" (Dallas Frazier) – 3:41
3. "Rough and Rocky" (Charles Justice/Shoji Tabuchi) – 3:50
4. "Hickory Wind" (Gram Parsons/Bob Buchanan) – 4:01
5. "Save the Last Dance for Me" (Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman) – 3:30
6. "Sorrow in the Wind" (Jean Ritchie) – 3:28
7. "They'll Never Take His Love From Me" (Leon Payne) – 2:34
8. "Everytime You Leave" [with Don Everly] (Charlie Louvin/Ira Louvin) – 2:58
9. "Blue Kentucky Girl" (Johnny Mullins) – 3:17
10. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" [harmony by Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton] (Rodney Crowell) – 3:56

[edit] Bonus tracks

A CD reissue in 2004 added a couple of previously unissued bonus tracks:

1. "Cheatin' Is" [with Glen Campbell] (Rafe VanHoy) – 2:28
2. "I Know an Ending When it Comes" (Hank Cochran) – 2:52

v • d • e Emmylou Harris Studio albums Gliding Bird • Pieces of the Sky • Elite Hotel • Luxury Liner • Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town • Blue Kentucky Girl • Light of the Stable • Roses in the Snow • Evangeline • Cimarron • White Shoes • The Ballad of Sally Rose • Thirteen • Angel Band • Bluebird • Brand New Dance • Cowgirl's Prayer • Wrecking Ball • Red Dirt Girl • Stumble into Grace • All I Intended to Be Live albums Last Date • At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) • Spyboy Compilations Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris • Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris • Duets • Songs of the West • Portraits (3 disc set) • Anthology (2 disc set) • The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches and Highways • Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (4 disc set + dvd) Collaborations With Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt: Trio • Trio 2 • With Linda Ronstadt: Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions • With Mark Knopfler: All the Roadrunning • Real Live Roadrunning Films and videos Live at the Ryman • Spyboy - Live from the Legendary Exit/In • Real Live Roadrunning (DVD - with Mark Knopfler)