Luxury Liner (album)

Luxury Liner
Studio album by
Emmylou Harris
ReleasedDecember 28, 1976[1]
StudioEnactron Truck, Los Angeles, California
GenreCountry
Length38:56
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
ProducerBrian Ahern
Emmylou Harris chronology
Elite Hotel
(1975) 		Luxury Liner
(1976) 		Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
(1978)
Singles from Luxury Liner
  1. "You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)"
    Released: February 2, 1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB[3]
The Guardian[4]

Luxury Liner is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1976. The album was Harris' second successive number one country album on the Billboard charts, although, unlike the preceding Elite Hotel, there were no number one hits from this album. The highest-charting singles were the number six Chuck Berry cover "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" and the number eight "Making Believe" (originally a hit for Kitty Wells). However, the album may be better known for including the first cover version of Townes Van Zandt's 1972 song "Pancho and Lefty", which subsequently became Van Zandt's best-known composition.

At the 20th Annual Grammy Awards, one of the album's tracks and hit singles, "Making Believe", was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance but the award went to Crystal Gayle for "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".

  1. ^ 2004 Warner Bros reissue - 'originally issued as Warner Bros #BS-2998/#BSK-3115(12/28/76'
  2. ^ Ankeny, Jason. Luxury Liner at AllMusic
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: H". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Sweeting, Adam (April 9, 2004). "Emmylou Harris, Luxury Liner". The Guardian. Retrieved January 24, 2016.