Luxury Liner | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | December 28, 1976[1] | |||
Studio | Enactron Truck, Los Angeles, California | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 38:56 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. Nashville | |||
Producer | Brian Ahern | |||
Emmylou Harris chronology | ||||
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Singles from Luxury Liner | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B[3] |
The Guardian | [4] |
Luxury Liner is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1976. The album was Harris' second successive number one country album on the Billboard charts, although, unlike the preceding Elite Hotel, there were no number one hits from this album. The highest-charting singles were the number six Chuck Berry cover "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" and the number eight "Making Believe" (originally a hit for Kitty Wells). However, the album may be better known for including the first cover version of Townes Van Zandt's 1972 song "Pancho and Lefty", which subsequently became Van Zandt's best-known composition.
At the 20th Annual Grammy Awards, one of the album's tracks and hit singles, Making Believe, was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance but the award went to Crystal Gayle for Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Luxury Liner" | Gram Parsons | 3:41 |
2. | "Pancho and Lefty" | Townes Van Zandt | 4:50 |
3. | "Making Believe" | Jimmy Work | 3:37 |
4. | "You're Supposed to Be Feeling Good" | Rodney Crowell | 4:01 |
5. | "I'll Be Your San Antone Rose" | Susanna Clark | 3:43 |
6. | "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" | Chuck Berry | 3:27 |
7. | "When I Stop Dreaming" | Ira Louvin, Charlie Louvin | 3:15 |
8. | "Hello Stranger" (with Nicolette Larson) | A.P. Carter | 3:59 |
9. | "She" | Gram Parsons, Chris Ethridge | 3:15 |
10. | "Tulsa Queen" | Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell | 4:47 |
11. | "Me and Willie" (bonus track for 2004 CD re-issue) | Laurie Hyde-Smith | 5:16 |
12. | "Night Flyer" (duet with Delia Bell) (bonus track for 2004 CD re-issue) | Johnny Mullins | 3:33 |
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Luxury Liner.[5]
- Brian Ahern - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, finger-style acoustic guitar
- Mike Auldridge - dobro
- Dianne Brooks - backing vocals
- James Burton - electric guitar
- Rodney Crowell - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, high-strung guitar, backing vocals
- Rick Cunha - acoustic guitar
- Hank DeVito - pedal steel
- Emory Gordy Jr. - bass
- Glen Hardin - piano, electric piano, string arrangements
- Emmylou Harris - vocals, acoustic guitar
- Nicolette Larson - duet vocals
- Albert Lee - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
- Dolly Parton - backing vocals
- Herb Pedersen - backing vocals
- Mickey Raphael - harmonica, bass harmonica
- Ricky Skaggs - fiddle, mandolin
- Fayssoux Starling - backing vocals
- John Ware - drums
Technical
- Brian Ahern - production, engineering
- Donivan Cowart - engineering
- Bradley Hartman - engineering
- Stuart Taylor - engineering
- Miles Wilkinson - engineering
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Release history
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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North America | December 28, 1976 |
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Warner Bros. Records | [9] |
References
- ↑ 2004 Warner Bros reissue - 'originally issued as Warner Bros #BS-2998/#BSK-3115(12/28/76'
- ↑ Ankeny, Jason. Luxury Liner at AllMusic
- ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: H". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ↑ Sweeting, Adam (April 9, 2004). "Emmylou Harris, Luxury Liner". The Guardian. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ↑ Luxury Liner (liner notes). Emmylou Harris. Warner Bros. Nashville. 1976.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ↑ "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- ↑ "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1977". Billboard. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- ↑ Harris, Emmylou (December 29, 1975). "Luxury Liner (Liner Notes)". Warner Bros. Records. BS-2998 (LP); M5-2998 (Cassette).