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Blue Kentucky Girl




  Type Album
  Artist Emmylou Harris
  Cover bluekentuckyjpg
  Released July 1979
  Recorded Nashville , 1979
  Genre Country
  Length :
  Label Warner Bros Records
  Producer Brian Ahern
  Last Album '' Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town '' <br/> (1978)
  This Album '''''Blue Kentucky Girl''''' <br/> (1979)
  Next Album '' Light Of The Stable '' <br/> (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.


TRACK LISTING

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


BONUS TRACKS

A CD reissue in 2004 added a couple of previously unissued bonus tracks:
# "Cheatin' Is" (Rafe VanHoy) – 2:28
# "I Know an Ending When it Comes" (Hank Cochran) – 2:52
''Cheatin' Is'' is a duet with Glen Campbell.