Trio II

Trio II
Studio album by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
Released February 9, 1999
Recorded 1994
Genre Country
Length 41:13
Label Asylum
Producer George Massenburg, Linda Ronstadt
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris chronology
Trio
(1987)Trio1987		 Trio II
(1999)		 The Complete Trio Collection
(2016)The Complete Trio Collection2016
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[2]
Los Angeles Times[3]
Q[4]
Robert Christgau[5]
Rolling Stone [6]

Trio II is the Grammy Award-winning, Gold-certified second collaborative album of American singer-songwriters Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton.

A dozen years after the release of their Platinum, Grammy-winning Trio album, the country music supergroup returned with another in the same vein. Five of the ten tracks on this album first appeared on Linda Ronstadt's 1995 album Feels Like Home: "Lover's Return", "High Sierra", a cover of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" (with Valerie Carter and string arrangements by David Campbell), "The Blue Train" (a top-40 solo hit for Ronstadt), and the title song to the Ronstadt album, the Randy Newman-composed "Feels Like Home". The album reached the top five on Billboard's Country Albums chart as well as number 62 on Billboard's main album listing.

The songs were recorded in 1994 by Parton, Ronstadt and Harris, but label disputes and conflicting schedules of the three women prevented their release at the time. Eventually, Ronstadt remixed the five above-mentioned tracks (sans Parton's vocals) to include in Feels Like Home. In 1999 (after Parton and Harris had parted ways with their respective labels), they decided to release the album as originally recorded. Though it yielded no hit singles (mainstream U.S. country radio had long since dropped most artists approaching or over 50 from their playlists by the late 1990s), Trio 2 was certified Gold by the RIAA, signifying U. S. sales of over 500,000 copies[7] and won the trio another Grammy Award in 2000.

Childhood photos of Harris, Parton and Ronstadt were used for the album's cover, when a photo shoot proved impossible (due to the three artists' busy schedules), though they assembled for a short promotional tour in early 1999, and to film a music video for "After the Gold Rush" which was filmed inside a synagogue in New York City that January.

Though scheduling conflicts would not allow for an extended concert tour, the three did a short promotional tour to support the album, including performances on CBS This Morning, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show, and The Late Show with David Letterman.

"Softly & Tenderly" was recorded for the album but was cut. It was included on the 2007 Emmylou Harris boxset Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Lover's Return"A.P. Carter, Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter
  • Ronstadt
4:00
2."High Sierra"Harley Allen
  • Ronstadt
4:21
3."Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?"Dolly Parton
  • Harris
3:16
4."After the Gold Rush"Neil Young
  • Parton
3:31
5."The Blue Train"Jennifer Kimball, Tom Kimmel
  • Ronstadt
4:57
6."I Feel the Blues Movin' In"Del McCoury
  • Parton
4:31
7."You'll Never Be the Sun"Donagh Long
  • Harris
4:43
8."He Rode All the Way to Texas"John Starling
  • Parton
3:07
9."Feels Like Home"Randy Newman
  • Ronstadt
4:47
10."When We're Gone, Long Gone"Kieran Kane, James Paul O'Hara
  • Harris
4:00

Chart performance

Chart (1999) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 4
U.S. Billboard 200 62
Canadian RPM Country Albums 4

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
  3. ↑ Los Angeles Times review
  4. ↑ Album reviews at CD Universe
  5. ↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
  6. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  7. ↑ "American album certifications – Parton,D.,Ronstadt,L.,Harris,E – Trio II". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
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