Emmylou Harris — Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1983)

Live on CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Canada, Dec 12, 1983. Rodney Crowell, Albert Lee, and Rosanne Cash are also participating.

Rodney Crowell claims to have written “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues” about Harris and her pal Susanna Clark (Guy Clark’s wife, and a songwriter and artist in her own right). “That always made me real proud,” Harris says of the song, which took its title from the then-popular gonzo novel of the same name by author Tom Robbins. Crowell originally intended the song for the movie version of the book, but, as Harris recounts, “The movie rejected the song, and the public rejected the movie.” (Parke Puterbaugh, liner notes to Blue Kentucky Girl album).

Just a reupload of the deleted video, originally uploaded on YouTube by someone else.