Cowgirl's Prayer Explained

Cowgirl's Prayer
Type:Album
Artist:Emmylou Harris
Cover:Emmylou Harris - Cowgirl's Prayer.png
Released:September 28, 1993
Recorded:1993
Studio:Nashville
Genre:Country
Producer:Allen Reynolds, Richard Bennett
Prev Title:At the Ryman
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:Wrecking Ball
Next Year:1995

Cowgirl's Prayer is the seventeenth studio album by American country artist Emmylou Harris, released on September 28, 1993, by Warner Bros. Records. 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's 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's 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.

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1993)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums34
U.S. Billboard 200152
Canadian RPM Country Albums19

Release history

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DateFormatLabelRef.
North AmericaSeptember 28, 1993[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Harris . Emmylou . Cowgirl's Prayer (Liner Notes) . Asylum Records/Elektra Records . September 28, 1993 . 9-61541-2 and 61541-2 (CD); 61541-4 (Cassette).