When the Byrds recordedSweetheart of the Rodeoin 1968, the romance between country music and pop was still secret. Seven years later, both country and country-influenced pop are all but mainstream. In order to seduce the mass audience, country producers ...more
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Pieces Of The Sky has to be one of the best major-label debuts of any country artist. All the elements of classic Harris albums appear here: exceptional musicians (guitarist James Burton among them), country standards (the Louvin Brothers ' "If I Could ...more
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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. Amid a collection of songs that ranks ...more
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Emmylou Harris' Pieces of the Sky is one of the more welcome entries in her catalog. Before the auspicious and provocative Elite Hotel, issued later in 1975, Pieces of the Sky was the kind of record that became Harris' signature style for most of her ...more
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