Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released	1978
Recorded	1977
Studio	The Enactron Truck, Beverly Hills, California
Genre	Country
Length	35:48 (42:43 2004 CD)
Label	Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer	Brian Ahern
Emmylou Harris chronology
Singles from Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
	"To Daddy"; Released: December 3, 1977; "Two More Bottles of Wine"; Released: April 15, 1978;

Released1978

Recorded1977

StudioThe Enactron Truck, Beverly Hills, California

GenreCountry

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The Guardian	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1978. The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts, with three charting singles: "To Daddy" (written by Dolly Parton) at No. 3, "Two More Bottles of Wine" at No. 1 (the third No. 1 of Harris' career), and "Easy From Now On" (co-written by Carlene Carter, and Susanna Clark and the song from which the album's title comes) at No. 12. Also featured are "One Paper Kid", a duet with Willie Nelson, "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight", which the Oak Ridge Boys would reach No. 1 with in 1980 and "I Ain't Living Long Like This", which Waylon Jennings would reach No. 1 with in 1980 as well. The painting used for the album cover is by Susanna Clark.^[4]

At the 21st Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance but the award went to Dolly Parton for Here You Come Again.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Easy From Now On"	Susanna Clark, Carlene Carter	3:06
2.	"Two More Bottles of Wine"	Delbert McClinton	3:06
3.	"To Daddy"	Dolly Parton	2:46
4.	"My Songbird"	Jesse Winchester	3:08
5.	"Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"	Rodney Crowell, Donivan Cowart	4:20

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Defying Gravity"	Winchester	4:15
7.	"I Ain't Living Long Like This"	Crowell	4:05
8.	"One Paper Kid" (with Willie Nelson)	Walter Martin Cowart	2:57
9.	"Green Rolling Hills" (with Fayssoux Starling)	Utah Phillips	3:39
10.	"Burn That Candle"	Winfield Scott	4:26

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"New Cut Road"	Guy Clark	4:11
12.	"LaCassine Special" (with Barry Tashian)	Iry LeJeune, Eddie Shuler	2:44

v t e Emmylou Harris
Albums Singles Awards and Nominations
Studio albums as a solo artist	Gliding Bird (1970) Pieces of the Sky (1975) Elite Hotel (1975) Luxury Liner (1976) Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (1978) Blue Kentucky Girl (1979) Light of the Stable (1979) Roses in the Snow (1980) Evangeline (1981) Cimarron (1981) White Shoes (1983) The Ballad of Sally Rose (1985) Thirteen (1986) Angel Band (1987) Bluebird (1989) Brand New Dance (1990) Cowgirl's Prayer (1993) Wrecking Ball (1995) Red Dirt Girl (2000) Stumble into Grace (2003) All I Intended to Be (2008) Hard Bargain (2011)
Studio albums as a collaboration	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) (1987) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) (1999) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) (1999) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) (2006) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) (2013) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell) (2015)
Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris (1978) Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris (1984) Duets (1990) Songs of the West (1994) The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways (2005) The Complete Trio Collection (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) (2016)
Live albums	Last Date (1982) At the Ryman (1992) Spyboy (1998) Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert (with The Nash Ramblers) (2021)
Soundtrack albums	Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) (2006)
Box sets	Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (2007)
Contributions and appearances	Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

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