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

Pieces of the Sky
Studio album by Emmylou Harris
Released	February 7, 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]

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.) 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

Bonus tracks

A 2004 CD reissue added two previously unissued bonus tracks:

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

Personnel

References

External links

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

На других языках

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Pieces of the Sky — дебютный кантри-альбом американской певицы Эммилу Харрис, выпущенный в феврале 1975 года на рекорд-лейбле Reprise Records. Пластинка вошла в Топ-10 чарта Top Country Albums и Топ-50 Billboard 200. Сингл «Too Far Gone» поднялся до строчки № 73 в Hot Country Songs, а выпущенный следом «If I Could Only Win Your Love» достиг позиции № 4, обеспечив артистке широкую известность и признание кантри-индустрии. Хотя формально первым альбомом Харрис является фолк-дебют Gliding Bird (1969), начало сольной карьеры певицы обычно принято отсчитывать именно с Pieces of the Sky. Альбом сыграл значимую роль в популяризации кантри среди молодежи, возникновении неотрадиционализма, и заложил эклектичный подход к материалу, свойственный всей последующей карьере Харрис.

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