Trio

Trio came out in 1987, years after the three singers first sang together at Harris's house in Los Angeles in 1975. In 1979 they began a pop-leaning record with the producer Brian Ahern, but shelved it. George Massenburg engineered and produced the finished album, and the session players included Russ Kunkel and David Lindley, with guest spots from Ry Cooder and Bill Payne.

It opens with The Pain of Loving You, which Parton co-wrote with Porter Wagoner, and her own Wildflowers is its centerpiece. Massenburg recalled that Nashville loathed the record. It spent five weeks at number one on the country albums chart, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 and produced four Top 10 country hits, among them Phil Spector's To Know Him Is to Love Him, a number one. It won the Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for Album of the Year.