The Complete Trio Collection

The Complete Trio Collection
Compilation album by Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
Released September 9, 2016
Recorded Los Angeles, California, USA, 1978 - 1998
Genre Country
Length 146:22
Label Rhino, Warner Bros., Asylum
Producer Emmylou Harris, James Austin
Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt chronology
Trio II
(1999)		 The Complete Trio Collection
(2016)
Dolly Parton chronology
Pure & Simple
(2016)		 The Complete Trio Collection
(2016)

The Complete Trio Collection is compilation album by American singer-songwriters Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. It brings together newly remastered versions of their two award-winning albums, 1987's Trio and 1999's Trio II, with a third disc compiling 20 alternate takes and unreleased material. It was released worldwide on September 9, 2016, by Rhino Entertainment.[1]

Despite being touted as "complete", the set is missing four recordings that feature the trio. Those four tracks are:

Additionally, Parton and Ronstadt both provided harmony vocals on various tracks throughout Harris' 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose.

History

Longtime friends and admirers of one another, Parton, Ronstadt and Harris first attempted to record an album together in the mid-1970s, but scheduling conflicts and other difficulties (including the fact that the three women all recorded for different record labels) prevented its release. Finally a collaboration effort went to full fruition, being produced by George Massenburg. When Trio was released in early 1987, it spawned four huge Country hit singles - including the Country #1 remake of the Phil Spector penned 1958 hit by The Teddy Bears, "To Know Him Is To Love Him". The album hit #1 on the US Country album chart - where it held for five consecutive weeks - and #6 on the main Billboard album chart. It won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It was also nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy alongside Michael Jackson, U2, Prince and Whitney Houston as well as best country song for "Telling Me Lies". It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

A dozen years after the release of their multi-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, minus Parton's vocals. These five tracks were "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 Gold-selling album reached the Top Five on Billboard's Country Albums chart as well as #62 on Billboard's main album listing.

The songs were actually recorded in 1994 by Parton, Ronstadt and Harris, but label disputes and conflicting schedules of the three women prevented its 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 finally 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 the age of 50 from their playlists by the late 1990s), Trio II was certified Gold by the RIAA, and won the trio another Grammy Award in 2000.

Track listing

[A] previously released on Harris' 2007 compilation Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems.
[B] previously released on Harris' 1977 album Blue Kentucky Girl.
[C] previously released on Harris' 1981 album Evangeline.

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[2] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[3] 64
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[4] 137
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[5] 12
Irish Albums (IRMA)[6] 81
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)[7] 5
Scottish Albums (OCC)[8] 24
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 58
UK Albums (OCC)[10] 47
US Billboard 200[11] 124
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[12] 7

References

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