Gliding Bird

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Gliding Bird
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released	1970
Genre	folk
Length	?:?
Label	Jubilee Records
Producer	Ray Ellis
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Emmylou Harris chronology
Gliding Bird (1970) Pieces of the Sky (1975)

Before she met mentor Gram Parsons and before she became a famous country singer, Emmylou Harris began singing folk music; yet Gliding Bird, her obscure début album, displays an eclecticism that is found in her later work. The album contains five folky Harris originals (with influences from Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell) plus the country-rock of Bob Dylan and Fred Neil, classic country of Hank Williams and a folk-pop rendition of a Dionne Warwick/Bacharach/David hit. Not until 1985's The Ballad of Sally Rose would another Harris album have more than two of her own compositions.

There were a couple of singles released from the album, but neither made any of the Billboard Music Charts. The title song "Gliding Bird," was written by her then-husband Tom Slocum.

Jubilee Records folded shortly after the release of this album, thus ceasing any distribution or promotion; its catalogue was purchased by Roulette Records.

Though technically Harris' first album, she subsequently disowned the record, and largely regards 1975's Pieces of the Sky as her first "official" album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Bob Dylan) – 2:45
2. "Fugue for the Ox" (Emmylou Harris) – 2:23
3. "I Saw the Light" (Hank Williams) – 2:40
4. "Clocks" (Emmylou Harris) – 3:00
5. "Black Gypsy" (Emmylou Harris) – 5:50
6. "Gliding Bird" (Tom Slocum) – 2:50
7. "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 2:03
8. "Bobbie's Gone" (Emmylou Harris) – 4:05
9. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Burt Bacharach/Hal David) – 2:22
10. "Waltz of the Magic Man" (Emmylou Harris) – 4:15

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)