Trio II

Nathaniel Kunkel recorded it, Ronstadt handled mixing, and Doug Sax mastered it at The Mastering Lab. The players include Robbie Buchanan, Dean Parks, David Grisman, Edgar Meyer, Jim Keltner, Leland Sklar and Alison Krauss on fiddle. Mix magazine reported that Parton missed the earliest sessions, so Krauss stood in on "I Feel the Blues Movin' In", and that Sam Bush was due to play but David Grisman replaced him. Harris told Billboard that they always loved the first record and thought they could deal with the scheduling this time; Parton told the Associated Press that your whole life you wait to find those compatible voices.

The AV Club's Joshua Klein called it a perfect meeting of high-quality material and talented interpreters, naming "After the Gold Rush" and "High Sierra" as highlights; Rolling Stone's Patrick Carr gave it three stars, and AllMusic's Becky Byrkit three. The single "High Sierra" reached 90 on the Canadian country chart.