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Cover of Pieces of the Sky (Expanded & Remastered)

Album • 1975

Pieces of the Sky (Expanded & Remastered)

Emmylou Harris12 songs • 42 minutes

Pieces of the Sky is the second studio album and major-label debut by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released on February 7, 1975, by Reprise Records. Although she had released the obscure folk-styled Gliding Bird five years earlier, Pieces of the Sky became the album that launched Harris's career and is widely considered to be her debut. In those intervening years she forged a musical relationship with Gram Parsons that altered the musical direction of her career. The album includes Harris's first high-charting Billboard country hit, the No. 4 "If I Could Only Win Your Love," and the relatively low-charting No. 73 "Too Far Gone". The overall song selection was varied and showed early on how eclectic Harris's musical tastes were. In addition to her own "Boulder to Birmingham", she included the Merle Haggard classic "The Bottle Let Me Down," the Beatles' "For No One," and Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors." On Shel Silverstein's "Queen of the Silver Dollar," Harris's longtime friend and vocal collaborator Linda Ronstadt sings harmony. Pieces of the Sky rose as far as the No. 7 spot on the Billboard country albums chart. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieces_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    Bluebird Wine (2003 Remaster)
  2. 2
    Too Far Gone (2003 Remaster)
  3. 3
    If I Could Only Win Your Love
  4. 4
    Boulder to Birmingham (2003 Remaster)
  5. 5
    Before Believing (2003 Remaster)
  6. 6
    Bottle Let Me Down (2003 Remaster)
  7. 7
    Sleepless Nights (2003 Remaster)
  8. 8
    Coat of Many Colors (2003 Remaster)
  9. 9
    For No One (2003 Remaster)
  10. 10
    Queen of the Silver Dollar (2003 Remaster)
  11. 11
    Hank and Lefty (2003 Remaster)
  12. 12
    California Cotton Fields (2003 Remaster)

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