Pieces of the Sky

Pieces of the Sky is an album by Emmylou Harris, released in February 1975. It was effectively her debut. Although she had released the obscure folk-styled Gliding Bird five years earlier, Pieces of the Sky was the album that really launched the career of Emmylou Harris, and is widely considered to be her début. In those intervening years she had forged a musical relationship with the late Gram Parsons that would forever alter the musical direction that her career would take. The album includes Harris' 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...