EMMYLOU HARRIS - BLUEBIRD WINE

BLUEBIRD WINE

EMMYLOU HARRIS

SONGWRITER: RODNEY CROWELL

WHERE: LIVE LAEISZHALLE HAMBURG 2013

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: PIECES OF THE SKY

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC

YEAR: 1975

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

Although she had released the obscure folk-styled Gliding Bird five years earlier, Pieces of the Sky became the album that launched Harris' career and is widely considered to be her début. In those intervening years she had forged a musical relationship with Gram Parsons that would 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 eclectic Harris' musical tastes were. In addition to her own "Boulder to Birmingham" (written for former singing partner 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", her friend and occasional collaborator Linda Ronstadt sings harmony.

The album rose as far as the #7 spot in the Billboard country albums chart.

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists.

Baby brought me in out off the highway

Made me put my money in the bank, bank

Straightened out my crooked way of thinking

Made it purely pleasure when I drank

And It's all right

I've just hit my stride

Right off the bat

Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine

Baby taught me a diff'rent way of thinkin'

Like how to spend my evenings here at home

List'ning to the music on the radio

Drinking all the Bluebird we can hold

And It's all right

I've just hit my stride

Right off the bat

Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine

Baby says he'd really love a party

We'll get some friends together feelin' fine

Any friend of mine is worth his habit

A belly full of baby's Bluebird Wine

And It's all right

I've just hit my stride

Right off the bat

Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine.