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Blue Kentucky Girl

by Emmylou Harris

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1980's

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1,358
1989

of 7,682

657

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Overall Rating: 2.1557 Blue Kentucky Girl is ranked overall as 2.1557 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.8000 Blue Kentucky Girl has an avg. critic score of 2.8000 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

In response to criticism that her records weren't "country" enough, Harris recordedBlue Kentucky Girl, one of her most traditional outings. ...more

Rolling Stone

Blue Kentucky Girlis virtually a textbook example of how to make a modern country album. It's lucid and self-assured, without a single dud among its ten cuts, and done in a style that's invariably elegant while hewing rigidly to a hard-edged, functional tone. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Ricky Skaggs joined Harris's Hot Band on fiddle, which, with Rodney Crowell already there, gives Harris two future solo artists in her band. And Harris's material ranges from Gram Parsons ' "Hickory Wind" to the Drifters ' "Save The Last Dance For Me. ...more

Yahoo! Music

In response to criticism that her records weren't "country" enough, Harris recorded Blue Kentucky Girl, one of her most traditional outings. ...more

Yahoo! Music

1979's Blue Kentucky Girl was the first pure country record Emmylou Harris ever recorded. It has a stripped-down sound that is as close to the country bone as anything issued by Nash Vegas in the 1960s. ...more

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