Cowgirl's Prayer

Studio album by Emmylou Harris

Released

September 28, 1993

Recorded

Nashville, 1993

Allen Reynolds, Richard Bennett

Emmylou Harris chronology

At the Ryman
(1992)

Cowgirl's Prayer
(1993)

Wrecking Ball
(1995)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Chicago Tribune	^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A+^[3]
Los Angeles Times	^[4]
Orlando Sentinel	^[5]
Rolling Stone	^[6]

Cowgirl's Prayer is a 1993 Emmylou Harris album. Coming immediately after 1992's live acoustic At the Ryman album, Cowgirl's Prayer is a collection of similarly subdued material (with a couple of rockers thrown in, notably "High Powered Love", the album's first single). Released at a time when older artists (i.e. anyone over 40) were being dropped from country radio playlists, the album received little airplay, despite positive reviews, and its relative commercial failure is said to have served as a catalyst for Harris' decision to change course with the harder edged sound of her subsequent work, beginning with 1995's rockish Wrecking Ball, thus rendering Cowgirl's Prayer Harris' last mainstream country album.

Despite the lack of radio airplay, accompanying videos for the album's three singles, "High Powered Love", the Cajun-themed "Crescent City", and Jesse Winchester's "Thanks to You", received considerable exposure on CMT.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Ways to Go"	Lainie Marsh	3:38
2.	"The Light"	Kieran Kane, Emmylou Harris	2:29
3.	"High Powered Love"	Tony Joe White	3:08
4.	"You Don't Know Me"	Eddy Arnold, Cindy Walker	3:07
5.	"Prayer in Open D"	Emmylou Harris	4:17
6.	"Crescent City"	Lucinda Williams	3:31
7.	"Lovin' You Again"	Roger D. Ferris	5:31
8.	"Jerusalem Tomorrow"	David Olney	4:17
9.	"Thanks to You"	Jesse Winchester	3:56
10.	"I Hear a Call"	Tony Arata	2:50
11.	"Ballad of a Runaway Horse"	Leonard Cohen	5:35

Personnel

Richard Aspinwall – Assistant Engineer
Larry Atamanuik – Percussion, Drums
Sam Bacco – Percussion
Grace Bahng – Cello
Richard Bennett – Acoustic, Tremolo & Electric Guitar, Percussion, Tambourine, Producer, Mandocello, Hi String Guitar
Mike Brignardello – Bass
Lori Brooks – Harmony Vocals, Harmony
Sam Bush – Fiddle
Kathy Chiavola – Handclapping, Harmony Vocals
Ashley Cleveland – Handclapping, Harmony Vocals
Suzanne Cox – Background Vocals
Emory Gordy, Jr. – String Arrangements
Emmylou Harris – Acoustic Guitar, Harmony Vocals
Connie Heard – Violin
John Heiden – Design
David Hoffner – Hammond Organ
Roy Huskey, Jr. – Acoustic Bass
Kieran Kane – Gut String Guitar
Mary Ann Kennedy – Harmony Vocals
Jana King – Harmony Vocals
Alison Krauss – Background Vocals
Chris Leuzinger – Acoustic & Electric Guitar
Sam Levine – Clarinet, Flute
Joe Loesch – Special Effects
Robin Lynch – Art Direction
Edgar Meyer – Double Bass
Mark Miller – Engineer, Mixing
Al Perkins – Pedal Steel, Steel Guitar
Jon Randall – Harmony Vocals
Allen Reynolds – Producer
Pam Rose – Harmony Vocals
Milton Sledge – Percussion, Drums
Jay Spell – Piano, Accordion
Tim White – Photography
Hurshel Wiginton – Harmony Vocals
Kris Wilkinson – Viola
Dennis Wilson – Harmony Vocals
Bobby Wood – Organ, Electric Piano
Bob Wray – Bass
Trisha Yearwood – Handclapping, Harmony Vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	34
U.S. Billboard 200	152
Canadian RPM Country Albums	19

References

External links

Boehm, Mike (19 August 1993). "ANSWER TO A 'PRAYER': Emmylou Harris' Latest Digs Deep Into Universal Lament of Superficiality". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
Gettelman, Parry (8 October 1993). "Emmylou Harris, Cowgirl's Prayer (Asylum): Cowgirl's Prayer is a bit uneven, but the high points make it worth negotiating a few rough spots.". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 12 May 2011.

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 Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

Video albums	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	Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

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