Hard Bargain

Hard Bargain is a country/folk album by Emmylou Harris, released on 26 April 2011, recorded at Tragedy/Tragedy, TN. It marks the 26th studio album from Harris (including collaborations) and her fourth solo recording for Nonesuch Records. With 17,000 copies sold in its first week, the album debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums, Harris' highest entry since her bluegrass LP Roses in the Snow in 1980. At the same time it debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200, displacing 1977's Luxury Liner as her most successful solo LP ever on that chart. The songs which were to become the "Hard Bargain" album were, according to Emmylou, recorded within 4 weeks in August 2010. Only three people can be heard on the album,...