Pieces of the Sky

Studio album by

Released

February 1975

Studio

Enactron Truck, Los Angeles, California; Track Recorders, Silver Spring, Maryland

Genre

Country

Length

38:40 (1975 release)
43:17 (2004 reissue)

Label

Reprise

Producer

Brian Ahern

Emmylou Harris chronology

Gliding Bird
(1969)

Pieces of the Sky
(1975)

Elite Hotel
(1975)

Singles from Pieces of the Sky

'If I Could Only Win Your Love'
Released: June 1975

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	C+^[2]
The Guardian	^[3]

Pieces of the Sky is the second studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in February 1975 through Reprise.

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Emmylou Harris' major-label solo debut quickly establishes the pattern that the vast majority of her subsequent work would follow: Pieces of the Sky is bravely eclectic, impeccably performed, and achingly beautiful.
With 13 Grammy Awards and a trio of CMA trophies, her work has garnered admiration and praise from her peers. Beginning with her 1975 masterpiece Pieces Of The Sky, Harris began to carve out a reputation as one of the genre’s most progressive talents – though one with a clear reverence toward the history of the Country format.

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Spyboy is a 1998 live album by Emmylou Harris and her backing band, Spyboy, which she formed for a tour to perform songs from her 1995 career-redefining album, Wrecking Ball. Taking a stripped-down approach, Harris is backed by a trio comprising country singer-songwriter Buddy Miller on guitar and New Orleans musicians Daryl Johnson on bass. Back on her first album, 1975's Pieces of the Sky, Emmylou Harris recorded a song called 'Boulder to Birmingham.' Until that album, Harris had been known mainly as the harmony singer for Gram.

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 début. 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 #4 'If I Could Only Win Your Love,' and the relatively low-charting #73 'Too Far Gone' (originally a 1967 hit for Tammy Wynette). 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' (written for Gram Parsons, who had died the previous year), she included the Merle Haggard classic 'The Bottle Let Me Down,' The Beatles' 'For No One,' and Dolly Parton's 'Coat of Many Colors.' (Parton, in turn, covered 'Boulder to Birmingham' on her 1976 album All I Can Do (album).) 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 #7 spot on the Billboard country albums chart.

Pieces of the Sky was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	'Bluebird Wine'	Rodney Crowell	3:18
2.	'Too Far Gone'	Billy Sherrill	4:05
3.	'If I Could Only Win Your Love'	Charlie Louvin, Ira Louvin	2:36
4.	'Boulder to Birmingham'	Emmylou Harris, Bill Danoff	3:33
5.	'Before Believing'	Danny Flowers	4:44
6.	'The Bottle Let Me Down'	Merle Haggard	3:16
7.	'Sleepless Nights'	Felice and Boudleaux Bryant	3:25
8.	'Coat of Many Colors'	Dolly Parton	3:42
9.	'For No One'	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	3:40
10.	'Queen of the Silver Dollar'	Shel Silverstein	5:14

Bonus tracks[edit]

A 2004 CD reissue added two previously unissued bonus tracks:

'Hank and Lefty' (Dallas Frazier, Doodle Owens) – 2:50
'California Cottonfields' (Dallas Frazier, Earl Montgomery) – 2:47

Personnel[edit]

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Emmylou Harris – vocals, acoustic guitar
Brian Ahern – acoustic guitar, guitar, bass
Bruce Archer – acoustic guitar
Duke Bardwell – bass
Byron Berline – fiddle, mandolin
James Burton – electric guitar, Gut-string guitar, Dobro
Mark Cuff – drums
Rick Cunha – acoustic guitar, guitar
Nick DeCaro – string arrangements
Amos Garrett – electric guitar
Richard Greene – fiddle
Tom Guidera – bass
Glen Hardin – piano, electric piano, string arrangements
Ben Keith – pedal steel
Bernie Leadon – acoustic guitar, bass, banjo, dobro, backing vocals
Bill Payne – piano
Herb Pedersen – acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo, backing vocals
Danny Pendleton – pedal steel
Ray Pohlman – bass
Linda Ronstadt – backing vocals
Ricky Skaggs – fiddle, viola
Fayssoux Starling – backing vocals
Ron Tutt – drums
Brian Ahern – producer, engineer
Chris Skene – engineer
Paul Skene – engineer
Fran Tate – engineer
Stuart Taylor – engineer
Lisa Phillips – angel drawings on cover

References[edit]

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^Ankeny, Jason. Pieces of the Sky at AllMusic
^Christgau, Robert (1981). 'Consumer Guide '70s: H'. Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^Sweeting, Adam (9 April 2004). 'Emmylou Harris, Pieces of the Sky'. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

Pieces of the Sky (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)

Free Pieces Of The Sky Emmylou Harris Rar Programs Online

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