Cowgirl's Prayer is a 1993 Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

 album. Coming immediately after 1992's live acoustic At the Ryman

At the Ryman

At the Ryman is a 1992 live album by Emmylou Harris and her then-newly formed acoustic backing band, The Nash Ramblers, recorded at the Ryman Auditorium, most famously known as the one-time home of the Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville, Tennessee. Harris had by this point disbanded her legendary Hot...

 album, Cowgirl's Prayer was 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

Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris album)

Wrecking Ball is a 1995 album by Emmylou Harris in which she moves away from the traditional acoustic sound for which she had become known, to team up with rock producer Daniel Lanois and engineer Mark Howard...

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Track listing

1. "A Ways to Go" (Lainie Marsh
   Lainie Marsh
   Lainie Marsh is an American singer-songwriter. She grew up in West Virginia, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and moved to Nashville in 1989....
   
   ) – 3:38
2. "The Light" (Kieran Kane
   Kieran Kane
   Kieran Kane is an American country music artist, as well as the owner of Dead Reckoning Records, an independent record label. Between 1986 and 1990, he and Jamie O'Hara comprised The O'Kanes, a duo which charted seven singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number...
   
   , Emmylou Harris) – 2:29
3. "High Powered Love" (Tony Joe White
   Tony Joe White
   Tony Joe White is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; and "Steamy Windows", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989...
   
   ) – 3:08
4. "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold
   Eddy Arnold
   Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
   
   , Cindy Walker
   Cindy Walker
   Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring...
   
   ) – 3:07
5. "Prayer in Open D" (Emmylou Harris) – 4:17
6. "Crescent City
   Crescent City (song)
   "Crescent City" is the ninth track on the Lucinda Williams album Lucinda Williams. It was written by Lucinda Williams.The Cajun-influenced song is a homage to New Orleans, the "Crescent City." It contains numerous regional references including the city Mandeville, Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain, and...
   
   " (Lucinda Williams
   Lucinda Williams
   Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
   
   ) – 3:31
7. "Lovin' You Again" (Roger Ferris
   Roger Ferris
   Roger Ferris is a British pop music composer, who wrote a Top 30 UK chart hit single in 1975 for the band Arrows, entitled "My Last Night With You." The song was produced by Mickie Most on his RAK label....
   
   ) – 5:31
8. "Jerusalem Tomorrow" (David Olney
   David Olney
   David Charles Olney is an American folk singer/songwriter. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but did not graduate, instead joining Bland Simpson's band Simpson in the early 1970s...
   
   ) – 4:17
9. "Thanks to You" (Jesse Winchester
   Jesse Winchester
   Jesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...
   
   ) – 3:56
10. "I Hear a Call" (Tony Arata
    Tony Arata
    Tony Arata is an American singer-songwriter. He was born and grew up in Savannah, Georgia, attended the Georgia Southern University, and moved to Nashville in 1986....
    
    ) – 2:50
11. "Ballad of a Runaway Horse" (Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
    
    ) – 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
  Sam Bush
  Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...
  
   – Fiddle
• Kathy Chiavola – Handclapping, Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Ashley Cleveland – Handclapping, Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Suzanne Cox – Background Vocals
• Emory Gordy – String Arrangements
• Emmylou Harris – Acoustic Guitar, Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Connie Heard – Violin
• John Heiden – Design
• David Hoffner – Hammond Organ
• Roy M. "Junior" Husky – Acoustic Bass
• Kieran Kane – Guitar, Gut String Guitar
• Mary Ann Kennedy – Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Jana King – Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
   – 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
  Al Perkins
  Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....
  
   – Pedal Steel, Steel Guitar
• Allen Reynolds – Producer
• Pamela Rose – Harmony Vocals
• Milton Sledge – Percussion, Drums
• Jay Spell – Piano, Accordion
• Jon Randall Stewart – Harmony Vocals
• Tim White – Photography
• Hurshel Wiginton – Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Kris Wilkinson – Viola
• Dennis Wilson – Harmony Vocals, Harmony
• Bobby Wood – Organ, Electric Piano
• Bob Wray – Bass
• Trisha Yearwood
  Trisha Yearwood
  Patricia Lynn Yearwood, professionally known as Trisha Yearwood , is an American country music artist. She is best known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a female perspective that have been described by some music critics as "strong" and "confident."Trisha Yearwood signed with MCA...
  
  – Handclapping, Harmony Vocals, Harmony

Chart performance

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