- Trio II
Infobox Album | Name = Trio II
Type = Album
Artist =Dolly Parton ,Linda Ronstadt ,Emmylou Harris
Released =November 17 ,1998
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 41:13
Label = Asylum Records
Producer =George Massenburg ,Linda Ronstadt
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:61220r4ay48i link]
Last album = "Trio"
(1987)
This album = "Trio II"
(1998)
Next album = |Trio II is the second album featuring collaboration between singers
Emmylou Harris ,Linda Ronstadt , andDolly Parton .A dozen years after the release of their original "Trio" album, the
country music supergroup returned with another in the same vein. Five of the ten tracks on this album first appeared, without Dolly Parton, onLinda Ronstadt 's 1995 album, "Feels Like Home". These five tracks were "Lover's Return", "High Sierra", a cover ofNeil Young 's "After the Gold Rush" (withValerie Carter ), "The Blue Train", and the title song to the Ronstadt album, theRandy Newman -composed "Feels Like Home". The album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard country albums chart.The songs were actually recorded in 1994 by Parton, Ronstadt and Harris, but label disputes and conflicting schedules of the three women prevented its release at the time. Eventually, Ronstadt remixed the five above-mentioned tracks (sans Parton's vocals) to include in "Feels Like Home". In 1999 (after Parton and Harris had parted ways with their respective labels), they decided to finally release the album as originally recorded. Though it yielded no hit singles (mainstream U.S. country radio had long since dropped nearly all artists approaching or over 50 from their playlists by the late 1990s), "Trio 2" was certified Gold by the
RIAA onNovember 15 ,2001 , and won the trio aGrammy Award in 2000.Childhood photos of Harris, Parton and Ronstadt were used for the album's cover, when a photo shoot proved impossible (due to the three artists' busy schedules), though they did manage to assemble for a short promotional tour in early 1999, and to film a video for "After the Gold Rush".
"Softly and Tenderly" was recorded for the album but cut. It was included on the 2007
Emmylou Harris boxset, .Track listing
#"Lover's Return" (
A.P. Carter ,Maybelle Carter ,Sara Carter ) – 4:00
#"High Sierra" (Harley Allen ) – 4:21
#"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?" (Dolly Parton ) – 3:16
#"After the Gold Rush" (Neil Young ) – 3:31
#"The Blue Train" (Jennifer Kimball, Tom Kimmel) – 4:57
#"I Feel the Blues Movin' In" (Del McCoury ) – 4:31
#"You'll Never Be the Sun" (Donagh Long) – 4:43
#"He Rode All the Way to Texas" (John Starling) – 3:07
#"Feels Like Home" (Randy Newman ) – 4:47
#"When We're Gone, Long Gone" (Kieran Kane , James Paul O'Hara) – 4:00External links
* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/albums/trioII/index.shtml Trio II at Dolly Parton On-Line]
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