Red Dirt Girl

Red Dirt Girl
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released	September 12, 2000 (2000-09-12)
Recorded	March–April 2000
Studio	Clouet Street Studio, New Orleans
Genre	Country folk, Americana
Length	55:59
Label	Nonesuch
Producer	Malcolm Burn
Emmylou Harris chronology
Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (1999) Red Dirt Girl (2000) Stumble into Grace (2003)

Red Dirt Girl is the nineteenth studio album by American country artist Emmylou Harris, released on September 12, 2000 by Nonesuch Records. The album was a significant departure for Harris, as eleven of the twelve tracks were written or co-written by her. At the time, she was best known for covering other songwriters' work. Prior to this album, only two of Harris' LPs had more than two of her own compositions (Gliding Bird in 1969, and The Ballad of Sally Rose in 1985). Her next album, Stumble into Grace, was also written by Harris. The album contains "Bang the Drum Slowly", a song Guy Clark helped Harris write as an elegy for her father.^[1] The album peaked at number 3 on the Billboard country album charts and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 2001.