Elite Hotel is Emmylou Harris’s third studio album, released by Reprise (MS 2236) on 29 December 1975. Brian Ahern produced it, and it was recorded in June 1975 at his Enactron Truck in Los Angeles. It was Harris’s first number one country album, peaked at 25 on the Billboard 200, and produced two number one country singles, “Together Again” and “Sweet Dreams.” Her vocals on the album earned her the Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
The songs include Buck Owens’s “Together Again,” Don Gibson’s “Sweet Dreams,” Hank Williams’s “Jambalaya,” the Beatles’ “Here, There and Everywhere,” “Amarillo,” which Harris wrote with Rodney Crowell, and three Gram Parsons songs: “Sin City” and “Wheels,” both written with Chris Hillman, and “Ooh Las Vegas,” written with Ric Grech. The players include James Burton on electric guitar, Glen Hardin on piano, Emory Gordy Jr. on bass, John Ware on drums, Hank DeVito and Ben Keith on pedal steel, Byron Berline on fiddle and mandolin, Rodney Crowell on rhythm guitar, Bernie Leadon on acoustic guitar and Herb Pedersen on banjo, with harmony vocals from Linda Ronstadt, Fayssoux Starling, John Starling and others.
On “Sin City” the credits are Burton on electric guitar, Hardin on piano, Gordy on bass, Ware on drums, DeVito on pedal steel, Berline on mandolin, Leadon and Ahern on acoustic guitar, and John Starling on backing vocals.
Tracklist
- 1 Amarillo - 2003 Remaster 3:01
- 2 Together Again - 2003 Remaster 3:54
- 3 Feelin' Single - Seein' Double - 2003 Remaster 2:27
- 4 Sin City alt version 3:54
- 5 One of These Days 3:04
- 6 Till I Gain Control Again - 2003 Remaster 5:35
- 7 Here, There and Everywhere 3:41
- 8 Ooh Las Vegas - 2003 Remaster 3:44
- 9 Sweet Dreams - 2003 Remaster 4:00
- 10 Jambalaya (On the Bayou) alt version 2:52
- 11 Satan's Jewel Crown - 2003 Remaster 3:13
- 12 Wheels alt version 2:58
- 13 You're Running Wild - 2003 Remaster 1:44
- 14 Cajun Born - 2003 Remaster 3:19
