Luxury Liner (album)

Luxury Liner

Studio album by Emmylou Harris

Released

28 December 1976^[1]

Genre

Country

Length

38:56

Emmylou Harris chronology

Elite Hotel
(1975)

Luxury Liner
(1976)

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
(1978)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Guardian	^[3]
Robert Christgau	B^[4]

Luxury Liner is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1976. The album was Harris' second successive #1 country album on the Billboard Music Charts, although, unlike the preceding Elite Hotel, there were no #1 hits from this album. The highest charting singles were the #6 Chuck Berry cover "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" and the #8 "Making Believe" (originally a hit for Kitty Wells).

Track listing

Side one

"Luxury Liner" (Gram Parsons) – 3:41
"Pancho and Lefty" (Townes Van Zandt) – 4:50
"Making Believe" (Jimmy Work) – 3:37
"You're Supposed to Be Feeling Good" (Rodney Crowell) – 4:01
"I'll Be Your San Antone Rose" (Susanna Clark) – 3:43

Side two

"(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" (Chuck Berry) – 3:27
"When I Stop Dreaming" (Ira Louvin, Charlie Louvin) – 3:15
"Hello Stranger" [with Nicolette Larson] (A.P. Carter) – 3:59
"She" (Gram Parsons, Chris Ethridge) – 3:15
"Tulsa Queen" (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell) – 4:47

Bonus tracks

A 2004 CD reissue added two previously unissued bonus tracks:

"Me and Willie" (Laurie Hyde-Smith) – 5:16
"Night Flyer" (duet with Delia Bell) (Johnny Mullins) – 3:33

Personnel

Brian Ahern: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Finger-Style Acoustic Guitar
Mike Auldridge: Dobro
Dianne Brooks: Backing Vocals
James Burton: Electric Guitar
Rodney Crowell: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, High-Strung Guitar, Backing Vocals
Rick Cunha: Acoustic Guitar
Hank DeVito: Pedal Steel
Emory Gordy, Jr.: Bass
Glen D. Hardin: Piano, Electric Piano, String Arrangements
Emmylou Harris: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Nicolette Larson: Duet Vocals
Albert Lee: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Backing Vocals
Dolly Parton: Backing Vocals
Herb Pedersen: Backing Vocals
Mickey Raphael: Harmonica, Bass Harmonica
Ricky Skaggs: Fiddle, Mandolin
Fayssoux Starling: Backing Vocals
John Ware: Drums

Technical personnel

Brian Ahern: Producer, Engineer
Donivan Cowart: Engineer
Bradley Hartman: Engineer
Stuart Taylor: Engineer
Miles Wilkinson: Engineer

Chart performance

Chart (1977)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	21
Canadian RPM Top Albums	40

References

↑ 2004 Warner Bros reissue - 'originally issued as Warner Bros #BS-2998/#BSK-3115(12/28/76'
↑ Ankeny, Jason. Luxury Liner (album) at AllMusic
↑ Sweeting, Adam (9 April 2004). "Emmylou Harris, Luxury Liner". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Luxury Liner [Reprise, 1976]". Retrieved 24 January 2016.

Emmylou Harris Luxury Liner liner notes

Preceded by Waylon Live by Waylon Jennings	Top Country Albums number-one album February 26-April 16, 1977	Succeeded by Southern Nights by Glen Campbell

Emmylou Harris

Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain

Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)

Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy

Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Her Best Songs Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West Portraits Singin' with Emmylou, Vol. 1 Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Records The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

Video albums	Live at the Ryman Spyboy: Live from the Legendary Exit/In Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)

Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"

Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)

Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)

Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

Related articles	Reprise Records Warner Bros. Records Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

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