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All I Intended to Be (2008)

Where the lyrics of All I Intended to Be take you, and where it was really made.

The title is not a new slogan: it comes from the closing line of one of the album's own tracks, "Old Five and Dimers Like Me."

Key places

Recorded at Easter Island Surround, Nashville (2008)

Recording site Nashville — The release notes list Easter Island Surround as the recording location for this album. The pin sits at the city center of Nashville, not at the exact studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• All I Intended to Be: 25th studio album by Emmylou Harris
• Her third release on Nonesuch Records
• Released in the United States on June 10, 2008
• Guest vocals by Dolly Parton and Vince Gill on "Gold"
• Duets with John Starling on "Old Five and Dimers Like Me" and "Beyond the Great Divide"
• "Moon Song" was written by Patty Griffin, a close friend of Harris
• "Sailing Round the Room" was inspired by Terri Schiavo and celebrates life and death, according to Harris

Background

• "How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower" refers to the relationship between A. P. and Sara Carter
• The song was inspired by a documentary that Harris, together with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, saw on television
• Harris's earlier Nonesuch album Red Dirt Girl came out in 2000
• Red Dirt Girl was the first album of only her own compositions since The Ballad of Sally Rose (1985)
• Patty Griffin's "Moon Song" had appeared as an iTunes bonus track on her 2007 album Children Running Through

Recording

• Recorded at Easter Island Surround in Nashville
• Engineer Donivan Cowart, second engineer Noland O'Boyle
• Mastered by Ray Janos at Sterling Sound
• Marc Bell credited as sound engineer on tracks 6 and 12
• Packaged as a gatefold sleeve with a lyric insert

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ja.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · pt.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama; American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader and activist.
• Regarded as a leading artist of the country rock genre in the 1970s and of Americana in the 1990s.
• Began in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the late 1960s; first album Gliding Bird (1970) under the name "Emmy Lou Harris".
• Discovered by Gram Parsons in 1971; sang harmony on his GP (1973) and worked with him on Grievous Angel before his death in 1973.
• Breakthrough with Pieces of the Sky (1975); five US country number-one singles by 1980.
• Trio (1987) with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt became her best-selling album; At the Ryman (1992) renewed interest in the Ryman Auditorium.
• Wrecking Ball (1995), produced by Daniel Lanois, is seen as a turning point toward Americana.
• Estimated over 15 million records sold; 13 Grammy Awards; inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
• Founded the dog rescue Bonaparte's Retreat in Nashville; organizes the Concerts for a Landmine-Free World benefit tour since 1999.

Reception

At release

• Released in the United States on June 10, 2008
• Debuted at number 22 on the Billboard 200
• Reached number four on Top Country Albums
• Harris's highest-charting solo record on the Billboard 200 since Evangeline (1981)

Records

• Sold 153,973 copies in the United States as of 2014, per Nielsen SoundScan
• Ranked number 49 on Q's 50 Best Albums of the Year 2008
• Nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album category at the 2009 Grammy Awards
• Red Dirt Girl (2000) had won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ja.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title comes from the closing line of "Old Five and Dimers Like Me," a track on the album itself.
• Red Dirt Girl, Harris's 2000 Nonesuch album, won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
• The gatefold sleeve includes a CD copy of the full LP.
• Mastering was done at Sterling Sound.
• Dolly Parton and Vince Gill sing guest vocals on "Gold."

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · ja.wikipedia.org

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