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
Studio	Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Label	Decca
Songwriter(s)	Johnny Mullins
Producer(s)	Owen Bradley
Loretta Lynn singles chronology

"Blue Kentucky Girl" is a song written by Johnny Mullins, and originally recorded by American country music artist Loretta Lynn. It was released in May 1965 as the first single and title track from the album Blue Kentucky Girl. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	7

Emmylou Harris version

"Blue Kentucky Girl" was also a single for American country music artist Emmylou Harris. Harris' version released in September 1979 as the second single and title track from her album Blue Kentucky Girl. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[3] Based on this version, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1980.

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	6
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	7

Other versions

Skeeter Davis recorded the song for her 1982 album Live Wire.

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 209.
^ "Loretta Lynn Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 152.
^ "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 209.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Loretta_Lynn-2] "Loretta Lynn Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[3] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 152.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Emmylou_Harris-4] "Emmylou Harris Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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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 singles
Albums Singles
Pieces of the Sky	"If I Could Only Win Your Love"
Elite Hotel	"Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams"
Luxury Liner	"You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)" "Making Believe"
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town	"To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Easy From Now On"
Blue Kentucky Girl	"Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters"
Roses in the Snow	"Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer"
Evangeline	"Mister Sandman" "I Don't Have to Crawl"
Cimarron	"If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run"
Last Date	"(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
White Shoes	"Drivin' Wheel" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love"
Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris	"Someone Like You"
The Ballad of Sally Rose	"White Line"
Thirteen	"Today I Started Loving You Again"
Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" "Telling Me Lies" "Those Memories of You" "Wildflowers"
Bluebird	"Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"
Brand New Dance	"Never Be Anyone Else But You"
Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)	"After the Gold Rush"
All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)	"All the Roadrunning"
Singles as a featured artist	"Wild Montana Skies" (featured with John Denver) "Thing About You" (featured with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (featured with Earl Thomas Conley)
Other songs	"Boulder to Birmingham" "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"