Cowgirl's Prayer

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Cowgirl's Prayer
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1993
Recorded1993
Studio Nashville
Genre Country
Label
Producer Allen Reynolds, Richard Bennett
Emmylou Harris chronology
At the Ryman
(1992)
Cowgirl's Prayer
(1993)
Wrecking Ball
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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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.

Contents

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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."A Ways to Go" Lainie Marsh 3:38
2."The Light" Kieran Kane, Emmylou Harris2:29
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 Harris4:17
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

Chart performance

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

Release history

Release history and formats for Cowgirl's Prayer
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
North AmericaSeptember 28, 1993
  • CD
  • cassette
  • Asylum Records
  • Elektra Records
[7]

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