Red Dirt Girl is the nineteenth studio album by American country artist Emmylou Harris, released on September 12, 2000 by Nonesuch Records.

Prior to this album, only two of Harris' LPs had more than two of her own compositions (Gliding Bird in 1969, and The Ballad of Sally Rose in 1985).

The album contains "Bang the Drum Slowly", a song Guy Clark helped Harris write as an elegy for her father.

The album was very positively received, being declared "spellbinding" by The Guardian.,[12] while the New York Times wrote: "Miss Harris has found herself.

[13] The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die,[14] which describes it thus: “drum loops and middle eastern melodies nestle in comfortably next to warm guitar work and Harris' gently wavering voice... a big departure from her rootsy '70s releases.” All tracks are written by Emmylou Harris, except where noted1.