Thirteen (Emmylou Harris album)

Thirteen is an album by the American musician Emmylou Harris, released in 1986. The title came from its status as her thirteenth studio album (if one does not count her 1969 first album, released on an independent label, which Harris herself rarely acknowledges).

The album was coproduced by Harris's then-husband, Paul Kennerley. It became available as a CD in 2013 in a compilation issued by the Rhino Entertainment Company called Emmylou Harris Original Album Series Vol.2.

Two low-charting singles in the Hot Country Singles were released from the album - If I Had My Heart Set on You (#60) and Today I Started Loving You Again (#43). Still, the latter netted Emmylou Harris another nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards. The award, however, went to Reba McEntire for Whoever's in New England.

Critical reception
The Los Angeles Times deemed Thirteen Harris's "most thoroughly satisfying studio album since 1979's Blue Kentucky Girl." The Orlando Sentinel wrote that Harris "always has been real country, in the bluegrass-mountain music branch—what she does better than any major artist is to add a measure of present to the past."

Personnel

 * Mike Bowden - bass
 * Steve Cash - harmonica
 * Rodney Crowell - backing vocals
 * Steve Fishell - steel guitar, slide guitar, resonator guitar
 * Vince Gill - backing vocals
 * Carl Jackson - mandolin, fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
 * Don Johnson - keyboards
 * Shane Keister - synthesizer
 * Mary Ann Kennedy - backing vocals
 * Paul Kennerley - acoustic guitar
 * Mark O'Connor - fiddle
 * Frank Reckard - mandolin, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
 * Pam Rose - backing vocals
 * Buddy Spicher - fiddle
 * Barry Tashian - backing vocals, accordion
 * Steve Turner - drums, percussion
 * Paul Worley - acoustic guitar
 * Emmylou Harris - vocals, acoustic guitar