Blue Kentucky Girl (Emmylou Harris album)

Blue Kentucky Girl
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 13, 1979
RecordedNashville, 1979
GenreCountry
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
ProducerBrian Ahern
Emmylou Harris chronology
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
(1978)
Blue Kentucky Girl
(1979)
Light of the Stable
(1979)
Professional ratings
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Blue Kentucky Girl is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1979. The album features Harris delving into more traditional country than the country-rock sound of her previous releases. Songs include work by Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons. 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).