Blue Kentucky Girl

Infobox Album
Name = Blue Kentucky Girl
Type = Album
Artist = Emmylou Harris


Released = July 1979
Recorded = Nashville, 1979
Genre = Country
Length = ?:?
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Brian Ahern
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jhdsyl1jxpmb link]
Last album = "Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town" (1978)
This album = "Blue Kentucky Girl" (1979)
Next album = "Light of the Stable" (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" [harmony 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" [with Glen Campbell] (Rafe VanHoy) – 2:28
# "I Know an Ending When it Comes" (Hank Cochran) – 2:52