Emmylou Harris’s Spyboy Reissued
Emmylou Harris’ Iconic Live Album ‘Spyboy’
Reissued With Extra Tracks
Out November 7 2025
Emmylou Harris will release Spyboy on November 7, 2025, via New West Records. Buddy Miller and Harris produced the nineteen-track live album, which features Miller on guitar and vocals, Brady Blade on drums, percussion and vocals, and Daryl Johnson on bass, djembe, percussion and vocals.
Originally issued on CD by Eminent Records in 1998, the new edition of Spyboy features five previously unreleased recordings of the band performing Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers‘ “A Thing About You,” Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand,” Bill Monroe’s “Get Up John,” Lucinda Williams’ “Sweet Old World,” as well as the Harris and Kate & Anna McGarrigle co-write “All I Left Behind.” It also features updated artwork as well as new and updated liner notes written by Harris and Miller.
Here’s “A Thing About You”.
Spyboy grew out of Wrecking Ball, Harris’ groundbreaking 1995 collaboration with producer Daniel Lanois. Over the next two years, they toured America and Europe together, never playing a song the same way twice. “It was really something to be on that stage every night with that band and that energy,” Harris says.
Miller and Harris culled through hundreds of tracks to choose the ones that best represented Spyboy. The album had its own identity separate from Wrecking Ball, and it revealed a new side of Harris, as she pushed her voice to match the rhythmic volatility of Johnson and Blade. Because Wrecking Ball was such a different kind of album for her, it attracted a different kind of fan. Miller noticed that the crowds skewed younger with each show, as a new generation of fans discovered Harris through the album. Harris says: “I might have lost some of my regular folk-oriented fans, who were perplexed by the album, but my true fans have always zigged with me when I’ve zigged and they’ve always zagged with me when I’ve zagged.”
Emmylou Harris Spyboy Track Listing:
1. My Songbird (Jesse Winchester)
2. Where Will I Be
3. I Ain’t Living Long Like This (Rodney Crowell)
4. Love Hurts (Bouldleaux Bryant)
5. Green Pastures
6. Deeper Well
7. Prayer In Open D
8. Calling My Children Home
9. Tulsa Queen
10. Wheels (Flying Burrito Brothers)
11. Born To Run
12. Boulder To Birmingham
13. All My Tears (Julie Miller)
14. The Maker
15. A Thing About You (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) *
16. All I Left Behind (Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle) *
17. Every Grain Of Sand (Bob Dylan) * (Not Present on CD Version)
18. Get Up John (Bill Monroe) *
19. Sweet Old World (Lucinda Williams) *
* Previously Unreleased Bonus Track
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