Spyboy (album)

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Spyboy
Live album by Emmylou Harris
Released	August 11, 1998
Genre	Country/Rock
Length	61:55
Label	Eminent Records
Producer	Buddy Miller & Emmylou Harris
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Emmylou Harris chronology
Wrecking Ball (1995) Spyboy (1998) Red Dirt Girl (2000)
Emmylou Harris live chronology
At the Ryman (1992) Spyboy (1998)

Spyboy is a 1998 live album by Emmylou Harris and her backing band, Spyboy, which she formed for a tour to perform songs from her 1995 career-redefining album, Wrecking Ball. Taking a stripped-down approach, Harris is backed by a power trio comprising country singer-songwriter Buddy Miller on guitar and New Orleans musicians Daryl Johnson on bass and Brady Blade on drums. Along with songs from Wrecking Ball, such as "Where Will I Be" and "Deeper Well", Harris performs other songs from earlier in her career, such as "Love Hurts", which she first performed with Gram Parsons, "I Ain't Living Long Like This" from Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town and her ode to Parsons, "Boulder to Birmingham", from her 1975 debut album, Pieces of the Sky.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Spyboy 2.2 Additional personnel

[edit] Track listing

1. "My Songbird" (Jesse Winchester) – 3:30
   • Studio version on Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
2. "Where Will I Be" (Daniel Lanois) – 4:21
   • From Wrecking Ball
3. "I Ain't Living Long Like This" (Rodney Crowell) – 4:20
   • Studio version on Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
4. "Love Hurts" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:55
   • First performed by Harris with Gram Parsons on Grievous Angel
5. "Green Pastures" (Traditional) – 3:05
   • First performed by Harris on Roses in the Snow
6. "Deeper Well" (Harris, Lanois, David Olney) – 7:16
   • From Wrecking Ball
7. "Prayer in Open D" (Harris) – 4:01
   • From Cowgirl's Prayer
8. "Calling My Children Home" (Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller, Robert Yates) – 3:02
   • First performed by Harris with the Nash Ramblers on At the Ryman
9. "Tulsa Queen" (Crowell, Harris) – 4:30
   • From Luxury Liner
10. "Wheels" (Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons) – 3:04
    • A Flying Burrito Brothers' song, Harris first recorded it for Elite Hotel
11. "Born to Run" (Paul Kennerley) – 4:44
    • From Cimarron
12. "Boulder to Birmingham" (Bill Danoff, Harris) 3:21
    • First recorded on Pieces of the Sky
13. "All My Tears (Be Washed Away)" (Julie Miller) – 5:06
    • From Wrecking Ball
14. "The Maker" (Lanois) – 8:40
    • Also recorded with Willie Nelson on Teatro

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Spyboy

• Emmylou Harris, lead vocals, acoustic guitar
• Buddy Miller, electric guitar, backing vocals
• Daryl Johnson, electric bass, bass pedals, djembe, percussion, backing vocals
• Brady Blade, drum kit, percussion, backing vocals

[edit] Additional personnel

• Julie Miller, backing vocals on "All My Tears (Be Washed Away)"

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)