Hard Bargain | ||||
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Released | April 26, 2011 | |||
Recorded | August 2010 | |||
Genre | Country Folk, Americana | |||
Length | 53:04 | |||
Label | Nonesuch | |||
Producer | Jay Joyce | |||
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Metacritic | (6.9/10) MC 69/100, 19 critics |
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Hard Bargain is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris, released on April 26, 2011,[1] and recorded at Tragedy/Tragedy, TN. The album is her fourth solo recording for Nonesuch Records.
With 17,000 copies sold in its first week, the album debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums,[2] Harris' highest entry since her bluegrass LP Roses in the Snow in 1980. At the same time it debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200,[3] displacing 1977's Luxury Liner as her most successful solo LP ever on that chart.