Evangeline (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Evangeline
Type = Album
Artist = Emmylou Harris


Released = April 1981
Recorded = Nashville, 1978 - 1980
Genre = country
Length = ?:?
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Brian Ahern
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:11aqoawabij9]
Last album = "Light of the Stable" (1980)
This album = "Evangeline" (1981)
Next album = "Cimarron" (1981)

"Evangeline" was a 1981 album by Emmylou Harris that was comprised mostly of leftover material from past recording sessions and which did not fit into any of her other albums. Songs included a remake of "Mister Sandman" (from the ill-fated "Trio" sessions with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt), "Evangeline", which she had previously performed with The Band, Rodney Crowell's "Ashes By Now", and a cover of John Fogerty's "Bad Moon Rising". Though it received mixed reviews upon its release, the album sold well. A single release of "Mister Sandman" did well on the charts, though neither Ronstadt's nor Parton's record companies would allow their artists' vocals to be used on the single, so Harris rerecorded the song, singing all three parts for the single release.

Track listing

# "I Don't Have to Crawl" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:46
# "How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis/Nancy Hamilton) – 3:21
# "Spanish Johnny" [with Waylon Jennings] (Paul Siebel) – 3:50
# "Bad Moon Rising" (John Fogerty) – 2:40
# "Evangeline" (Robbie Robertson) – 3:09
# "Hot Burrito #2" (Gram Parsons/Chris Ethridge) – 3:04
# "Millworker" (James Taylor) – 4:03
# "Oh Atlanta" (Bill Payne) – 2:58
# "Mister Sandman" [harmony by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt] (Pat Ballard) – 2:20
# "Ashes by Now" (Rodney Crowell) – 4:24

Personnel

(on Track No.)
*Brian Ahern - acoustic guitar (4, 9)
*Emmylou Harris - acoustic guitar (3 - 5, 7)
*Frank Reckard - acoustic guitar (1), lead guitar (1, 3, 4, 6)
*Ricky Skaggs - acoustic guitar (3, 7), mandolin (2, 3), fiddle (1, 5, 7, 8)
*Rodney Crowell - acoustic guitar (6, 10)
*Emory Gordy - bass (1, 5 - 10)
*Mike Bowden - bass (4)
*Dave Lewis - drums (9)
*Hal Blaine - drums (10)
*John Ware - drums (1, 4, 6, 8), percussion (2, 3, 7)
*Larrie Londin - drums (5)
*Albert Lee - lead guitar (5, 8, 9), piano (4)
*Amos Garrett - lead guitar (10)
*James Burton - lead guitar (1)
*Hank DeVito - pedal steel guitar (1, 3, 4, 6 - 8)
*Mickey Raphael - harmonica (3, 7, 10)
*Bill Payne - piano (8), electric piano (2, 9)
*David Briggs - piano (5)
*Don Johnson - piano (4)
*Mac Rebbenack - piano (10)
*Tony Brown - piano (1, 6)
*Glen D. Hardin - electric piano (1, 8, 10)