Blue Kentucky Girl (song)

"Blue Kentucky Girl"
"Blue Kentucky Girl"
Single by Emmylou Harris
from the album Blue Kentucky Girl
B-side	"Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"
Released	22 September 1979
Genre	Country
Length	3:21
Label	Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)	Johnny Mullins
Producer(s)	Brian Ahern
Emmylou Harris singles chronology

"Blue Kentucky Girl"
"Blue Kentucky Girl"
Single by Loretta Lynn
from the album Blue Kentucky Girl
B-side	"Two Steps Forward"
Released	22 May 1965
Recorded	14 October 1964; Bradley Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre	Country
Label	Decca
Songwriter(s)	Johnny Mullins
Producer(s)	Owen Bradley
Loretta Lynn singles chronology

"Blue Kentucky Girl" is a 1965 song by country singer Loretta Lynn and is the title track from her fourth studio album Blue Kentucky Girl. It went to number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country singles chart.

Emmylou Harris version[change | change source]

In 1979, Emmylou Harris covered Blue Kentucky Girl for her sixth studio album Blue Kentucky Girl. It went to number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country singles chart. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1980.

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v t e Loretta Lynn singles
Albums Singles Discography with Conway Twitty
1960s	"I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" "Heartaches Meet Mr. Blues" "The Darkest Day" "I Walked Away from the Wreck" "Success" "World of Forgotten People" "The Other Woman" "Before I'm Over You" "Wine, Women and Song" "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" (with Ernest Tubb) "Happy Birthday" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Our Hearts Are Holding Hands" (with Ernest Tubb) "The Home You're Tearing Down" "Dear Uncle Sam" "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" "Sweet Thang" (with Ernest Tubb) "If You're Not Gone Too Long" "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)" "Fist City" "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)" "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath" "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" (with Ernest Tubb) "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" "Wings Upon Your Horns"
1970s	"I Know How" "You Wanna Give Me a Lift" "Coal Miner's Daughter" "I Wanna Be Free" "You're Lookin' at Country" "One's on the Way" "Here I Am Again" "Rated "X"" "Love Is the Foundation" "Hey Loretta" "They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy" "Trouble in Paradise" "Shadrack, the Black Reindeer" "The Pill" "Home" "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill" "Red, White and Blue" "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)" "She's Got You" "Why Can't He Be You" "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed" "Spring Fever" "We've Come a Long Way Baby" "I Can't Feel You Anymore" "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind"
1980s	"Pregnant Again" "Naked in the Rain" "Cheatin' on a Cheater" "Somebody Led Me Away" "I Lie" "Making Love from Memory" "Breakin' It" "Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You" "Walking with My Memories" "Heart Don't Do This to Me" "Wouldn't It Be Great" "Just a Woman" "Who Was That Stranger" "Fly Away"
1990s– 2010s	"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette) "Country in My Genes" "Miss Being Mrs." "Portland Oregon" (with Jack White) "Coal Miner's Daughter" (with Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert) "Wouldn't It Be Great" (re-recorded version) "I Fall to Pieces" "Coal Miner's Daughter" (recitation)

v t e Emmylou Harris
Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain
Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)
Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy
Soundtrack albums	Honeysuckle Rose
Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)
Notable singles	"Boulder to Birmingham" "If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone" "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"
Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)
Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F G–K L–Q R–Z
Related articles	Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

v t e Skeeter Davis
Discography
Studio albums	I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too (1959) Here's the Answer (1961) Porter Wagoner and Skeeter Davis Sing Duets (with Porter Wagoner) (1962) Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World (1963) Why So Lonely? (1968)
Singles	"(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" "Bus Fare to Kentucky" "The End of the World" "For Loving You" "Fuel to the Flame" "Goin' Down the Road (Feelin' Bad)" "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now" "The Hands You're Holding Now" "He Says the Same Things to Me" "Homebreaker" "I Can't Believe That It's All Over" "I Can't Stay Mad at You" "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" "I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)" "I'm Saving My Love" "Last Date" "Lost to a Geisha Girl" "My Last Date (with You)" "One Tin Soldier" "Optimistic" "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" "Sad Situation" "Set Him Free" "Sun Glasses" "The Little Music Box" "There's a Fool Born Every Minute" "What Am I Gonna Do with You" "What Does It Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied)" "Where I Ought to Be"/"Something Precious"
Related	The Davis Sisters