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.
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