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Evangeline (1981)

Where the lyrics of Evangeline take you, and where it was really made.

Most of Evangeline was built from songs left over from earlier sessions, yet the album still earned a Gold certification within a year.

Key places

Recorded at Enactron in Nashville (1981)

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Album story

Overview

• Evangeline: the eighth studio album by Emmylou Harris
• Released in 1981 on Warner Bros. Records
• Built mostly from leftover material from earlier recording sessions
• The songs did not fit any of her other albums
• Received mixed reviews on release, yet was another commercial success for Harris
• Certified Gold in less than a year after release

Background

• Included a remake of "Mister Sandman" from the Trio sessions with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt
• "Evangeline" features vocals by Parton and Ronstadt, and Harris had performed the song earlier with the Band
• Rodney Crowell's "Ashes by Now" is among the tracks
• Includes a cover of John Fogerty's "Bad Moon Rising"
• Track list of ten songs, including "Hot Burrito #2" written by Gram Parsons and Chris Ethridge
• Harris was at this stage of her career as a singer working closely with Parton, Ronstadt and Crowell, all of whom appear in the album's story

Recording

• Recorded at Enactron in Nashville, Tennessee
• Most of the material came from sessions that had already taken place

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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

• Received mixed reviews on its release
• Released as an album of leftover studio material rather than a single planned project

Reappraisal

• Critical opinion at release was divided

Records

• Certified Gold in less than a year after its original release
• Reached number five on the American country albums chart
• The single "Mister Sandman" (Top 10 country, Top 40 pop) did well on the charts
• Harris rerecorded the vocal parts of "Mister Sandman" herself for the single release
• "I Don't Have to Crawl" by Rodney Crowell was released as the album's second single
• Music videos were produced for both "Mister Sandman" and "I Don't Have to Crawl"

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

Trivia

• The "Mister Sandman" single used a rerecorded vocal because neither Ronstadt's nor Parton's record companies would allow their artists' voices on the single, so Harris sang all three parts herself.
• Evangeline is one of two Harris albums never issued separately on CD; its tracks became available for digital download on iTunes in 2011.
• The album is now available as a CD in the 2013 collection Emmylou Harris Original Album Series Vol. 2.
• The track list includes "Hot Burrito #2", written by Gram Parsons and Chris Ethridge.
• Waylon Jennings sings on "Spanish Johnny".

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

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