Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town

Studio album by Emmylou Harris

Released

January 1978

Genre

Country

Length

34:55

Emmylou Harris chronology

Luxury Liner
(1976)

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
(1978)

Blue Kentucky Girl
(1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Guardian	^[2]

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1978. The album reached number 3 on the Billboard charts, with three charting singles: "To Daddy" (written by Dolly Parton) at #3, "Two More Bottles of Wine" at #1 (the third #1 of Harris' career), and "Easy from Now On" (co-written by Carlene Carter, and the song from which the album's title comes) at #12. Also featured are "One Paper Kid", a duet with Willie Nelson, and "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight", which the Oak Ridge Boys would reach #1 with in 1980. The painting used for the album cover is by Susanna Clark.^[3]

Track listing

Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Easy From Now On"	Susanna Clark, Carlene Carter Routh	3:07
2.	"Two More Bottles of Wine"	Delbert McClinton	3:07
3.	"To Daddy"	Dolly Parton	2:47
4.	"My Songbird"	Jesse Winchester	3:09
5.	"Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"	Rodney Crowell, Donivan Cowart	4:20

Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Defying Gravity"	Jesse Winchester	4:16
7.	"I Ain't Living Long Like This"	Rodney Crowell	4:06
8.	"One Paper Kid" (with Willie Nelson)	Walter Martin Cowart	2:57
9.	"Green Rolling Hills" (with Fayssoux Starling)	Utah Phillips	3:40
10.	"Burn That Candle"	Winfield Scott	4:27

2004 CD Reissue Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"New Cut Road"	Guy Clark	4:10
12.	"LaCassine Special" (with Barry Tashian)	Iry LeJeune, Eddie Shuler	2:44

Personnel

Brian Ahern - Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Gut-String Guitar, Percussion, Baby Bottle
Dianne Brooks - Backing Vocals
James Burton - Electric Guitar
Rodney Crowell - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Rick Danko - Fiddle, Backing Vocals
Hank DeVito - Pedal Steel
Emory Gordy, Jr. - Bass
Glen D. Hardin - Piano, Electric Piano, String Arrangements
Emmylou Harris - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Garth Hudson - Accordion, Baritone Saxophone
Nicolette Larson - Backing Vocals
Albert Lee - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Mandolin
Willie Nelson - Duet Vocals
Mickey Raphael - Harmonica
Ricky Skaggs - Fiddle, Viola
John Ware - Drums, Percussion

Technical personnel

Brian Ahern - Producer, Engineer
Donivan Cowart - Engineer
Bradley Hartman - Engineer
Michael Hollyfield - design
Ed Thrasher - photography

References

Emmylou Harris Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town liner notes

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Sweeting, Adam (9 April 2004). "Emmylou Harris, Quarter Moon in a Ten-Cent Town". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ Liner notes from the CD

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 Hard Bargain
Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)
Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy
Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)
Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"
Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)
Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z
Related articles	Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

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