Hard Bargain is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris, released on April 26, 2011,[1] and recorded at Tragedy/Tragedy, TN.

Billboard Top Country Albums,[2] 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,[3] displacing 1977's Luxury Liner as her most successful solo LP ever on that chart.

In December 2010, six video clips were filmed at Laughing House Studios, Nashville, TN, directed by Jack Spencer.

The opening number "The Road" is about the late Gram Parsons, her musical mentor who died in 1973 and is the first Harris-penned song to directly focus on his death since "Boulder to Birmingham", a track from her 1975 release Pieces of the Sky.