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Thirteen

Emmylou Harris

Album · 1986 · Warner Bros. 25352-1

“Thirteen” was released in February 1986 on Warner Bros. Records (25352-1), produced by Emmylou Harris and Paul Kennerley. The title counts it as her thirteenth studio album, not counting her 1969 debut Gliding Bird. It reached number nine on the Billboard country albums chart and 157 on the Billboard 200; its two singles peaked at number 60 and, with Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens’s “Today I Started Loving You Again,” number 43 on Hot Country Singles.

The program runs from “Mystery Train” and Iry LeJeune’s “Lacassine Special” to Bruce Springsteen’s “My Father’s House” and “Your Long Journey,” written by Doc and Rosa Lee Watson. The credits list Frank Reckard on guitars and mandolin, Steve Fishell on steel guitar and dobro, Carl Jackson on banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin and harmony vocals, Buddy Spicher and Mark O’Connor on fiddle, and Barry Tashian on accordion and harmony vocals, with Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill among the harmony singers and John Anderson singing a duet on “Just Someone I Used to Know.” Sessions were recorded and mixed at Creative Workshop in Nashville.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Mystery Train 2:34
  2. 2 You're Free to Go 2:49
  3. 3 Sweetheart of the Pines 3:22
  4. 4 Just Someone I Used to Know 2:59
  5. 5 My Father's House 4:50
  6. 6 Lacassine Special 2:53
  7. 7 Today I Started Loving You Again 3:23
  8. 8 When I Was Yours 2:45
  9. 9 I Had My Heart Set on You 3:10
  10. 10 Your Long Journey alt version 3:46

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