Red Dirt Girl

Red Dirt Girl is an Emmylou Harris album from 2000, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard country album charts and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 2001. The album was a significant departure for Harris, as eleven of the twelve tracks were written or co-written by her. At the time, she was best known for covering other songwriters' work. Prior to this album, only two of Harris' LPs had more than two of her own compositions (Gliding Bird in 1969, and The Ballad of Sally Rose in 1985). Her next album, Stumble into Grace, was also written by Harris. The album contains "Bang the Drum Slowly", a song Guy Clark helped Harris write as an elegy for her father.[2]

Red Dirt Girl
Studio album by
Emmylou Harris
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2000 (2000-09-12)
RecordedMarch–April 2000
StudioClouet Street Studio, New Orleans
GenreCountry folk, Americana
Length55:58
LabelNonesuch
ProducerMalcolm Burn
Emmylou Harris chronology
Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions
(1999)		 Red Dirt Girl
(2000)		 Stumble into Grace
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA[3]
The Guardian[4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
Q[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]
Spin4/10[9]
Uncut[10]
The Village VoiceC[11]

Legacy

The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Emmylou Harris, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Pearl" 5:02
2."Michelangelo" 5:14
3."I Don't Wanna Talk About It Now" 4:47
4."Tragedy"
4:24
5."Red Dirt Girl" 4:19
6."My Baby Needs a Shepherd" 4:39
7."Bang the Drum Slowly"
4:51
8."J'Ai Fait Tout"
  • Emmylou Harris
  • Jill Cunniff
  • Darryl Johnson
5:31
9."One Big Love"
4:33
10."Hour of Gold" 5:00
11."My Antonia" 3:43
12."Boy from Tupelo" 3:48
  • Track information and Personnel credits taken from the album's liner notes.[13]

Personnel

1. "The Pearl"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Bass
  • Ethan Johns: Electric guitar
  • Darryl Johnson: Drums, bass, percussion, harmony vocals
  • Buddy Miller: Electric guitar

2. "Michelangelo"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Bass, Drum box programming
  • Ethan Johns: Electric guitar

3. "I Don't Wanna Talk About It Now"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Piano, electric guitar, tambourine
  • Jill Cunniff: Electric guitar, bass, harmony vocals
  • Ethan Johns: Drums
  • Darryl Johnson: Bass, harmony vocals
  • Julie Miller: harmony vocals

4. "Tragedy"

  • Emmylou Harris: Baritone electric Guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Piano, 12-string guitar, bass, Fender Rhodes, drum box programming
  • Ethan Johns: Electric guitar
  • Darryl Johnson: Chord bass
  • Buddy Miller: Pedal steel
  • Patti Scialfa: Duet vocal
  • Bruce Springsteen: Harmony vocals

5. "Red Dirt Girl"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Bass, electric guitar, drum box programming
  • Ethan Johns: Omnichord
  • Darryl Johnson: Percussion, bass pedals
  • Buddy Miller: Electric guitar

6. "My Baby Needs A Shepherd"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Electric guitar, percussion, dulcimer, drum box programming
  • Ethan Johns: Baritone electric guitar, percussion
  • René Coman: Bass
  • Patty Griffin: Harmony vocals
  • Darryl Johnson: Baritone acoustic guitar, percussion

7. "Bang The Drum Slowly"

  • Emmylou Harris: Baritone electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Piano, synth bass, electric guitar
  • Ethan Johns: EBow
  • Darryl Johnson: Bass. harmony vocals, percussion

8. "J'Ai Fait Tout"

  • Malcolm Burn: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Jill Cunniff: Bass, harmony vocals, electric guitar
  • Ethan Johns: Drums
  • Daryl Johnson: Bass, harmony vocals
  • Kate McGarrigle: Accordion
  • Jim Watts: Fender Rhodes

9. "One Big Love"

  • Malcolm Burn: Bass, 12-string guitar, drum box programming, harmony vocals
  • John Deaderick: Fender Rhodes
  • Ethan Johns: Electric guitar, drums
  • Buddy Miller: Electric guitar, mando guitar
  • Julie Miller: Harmony vocals
  • Jill Cunniff: Harmony vocals
  • Carlo Nuccio: Drums

10. "Hour Of Gold"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Fender Rhodes, synth
  • Patty Griffin: Harmony vocals
  • Ethan Johns: Mando cello
  • Darryl Johnson: Bass

11. "My Antonia"

  • Emmylou Harris: Baritone electric guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Harmonica, acoustic guitar, omnichord, synth bass
  • Ethans Johns: Acoustic guitar, mando cello
  • Darryl Johnson: Bass, percussion
  • Dave Matthews: Duet vocal
  • Buddy Miller: Pedal steel, electric guitar

12. "Boy From Tupelo"

  • Emmylou Harris: Acoustic guitar
  • Malcolm Burn: Bass, percussion, piano, electric guitar, drums
  • Ethan Johns: EBow, acoustic guitar
  • Kate McGarrigle: Piano, harmony vocals
  • Julie Miller: Harmony vocals

Charts

References
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  2. Johnson, Zac. "Red Dirt Girl – Emmylou Harris". AllMusic. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  3. Johnson, Beth (September 15, 2000). "Red Dirt Girl". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  4. Sweeting, Adam (October 13, 2000). "Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl (Grapevine)". The Guardian.
  5. Hilburn, Robert (September 10, 2000). "Emmylou Harris, 'Red Dirt Girl,' Nonesuch". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  6. "Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl". Q. No. 169. October 2000. p. 119.
  7. Berger, Arion (September 28, 2000). "Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl". Rolling Stone. No. 850. p. 54. Archived from the original on August 7, 2007. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  8. Coleman, Mark; Kemp, Mark (2004). "Emmylou Harris". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 365–67. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  9. Smith, RJ (November 2000). "Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl / Willie Nelson: Milk Cow Blues". Spin. Vol. 16 no. 11. p. 208. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  10. "Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl". Uncut. No. 41. October 2000. p. 90.
  11. Christgau, Robert (November 28, 2000). "Turkey Shoot: Where the Action Isn't". The Village Voice. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
  12. Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
  13. Red Dirt Girl (liner notes). Emmylou Harris. Nonesuch. 2000.CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
  15. "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
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