Spyboy (album)

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Spyboy
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 11, 1998
Genre Country
Length61:55
Label Eminent
Producer Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris chronology
Wrecking Ball
(1995)
Spyboy
(1998)
Trio II
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly A− [3]

Spyboy is a 1998 live album by Emmylou Harris and her backing band, Spyboy. The band was formed for a tour performing songs from her career-redefining 1995 album Wrecking Ball .

Contents

Taking a stripped-down approach, Harris is backed by a trio comprising country singer-songwriter Buddy Miller on guitar and New Orleans musicians Daryl Johnson on bass and Brady Blade on drums. Along with material from Wrecking Ball, such as "Where Will I Be" and "Deeper Well", the album includes songs from earlier in her career, such as "Born to Run" from Cimarron , "I Ain't Living Long Like This" from Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town , "Love Hurts", which she first performed with Gram Parsons, and "Boulder to Birmingham," her ode to Parsons from Pieces of the Sky .

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Songbird" Jesse Winchester 3:30
2."Where Will I Be" Daniel Lanois 4:21
3."I Ain't Living Long Like This" Rodney Crowell 4:20
4."Love Hurts" Boudleaux Bryant 2:55
5."Green Pastures"Traditional3:05
6."Deeper Well" Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois, David Olney 7:16
7."Prayer in Open D" Emmylou Harris 4:01
8."Calling My Children Home" Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller, Robert Yates3:02
9."Tulsa Queen" Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris 4:30
10."Wheels" Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons 3:04
11."Born to Run" Paul Kennerley 4:44
12."Boulder to Birmingham" Bill Danoff, Emmylou Harris 3:21
13."All My Tears (Be Washed Away)" Julie Miller 5:06
14."The Maker" Daniel Lanois 8:40
Total length:61:55
2025 rerelease bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
15."Thing About You" Tom Petty  
16."All I Left Behind" Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Kate McGarrigle  
17."Every Grain of Sand" Bob Dylan  
18."Get Up John" Bill Monroe  
19."Sweet Old World" Lucinda Williams  

Personnel

Spyboy

Additional personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1998)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums27
U.S. Billboard 200180

Release history

Release history and formats for Spyboy
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
North AmericaAugust 11, 1998
  • CD
  • cassette
Eminent Records [4]
North America and EuropeApril 12, 2025VinylNew West Records [5]

References

  1. Pendragon, Jana. Spyboy at AllMusic
  2. Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Emmylou Harris" . Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  3. Entertainment Weekly review
  4. Harris, Emmylou (August 11, 1998). "Spyboy (Liner Notes)". Eminent Records. EM-25001-2 (CD); EM-25001-4 (Cassette).
  5. "Emmylou Harris - Spyboy". Record Store Day. Retrieved April 18, 2025.