Sky Piece

Sky Piece

Sky Piece

ASIN: B00000209O

Editorial Reviews
Jazz Times
This session is dynamic, with [Mario] Pavone's lyrical yet free bass, the drums of Michael Sarin, and their shifting floating rhythms. These rhythms might be informed by rock beats, a free jazz feel, or more traditional swing patterns. The ethereal lyricism of many of the pieces are inspired by nature.

Entertainment Weekly
This tight-knit new jazz unit traffics in adventuresome yet orderly improvising that, for open-eared listeners, offers bountiful rewards. . . .

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A Bigger Piece of Sky
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • One of His Best
  • taco thoughts
  • What an introduction to an enduring Americana legend!
A Bigger Piece of Sky
Jr. Robert Earl Keen
Manufacturer: Koch Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002IQGCG
Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

  1. Amarillo Highway
  2. Corpus Christi Bay
  3. Whenever Kindness Fails
  4. Blow You Away
  5. Jesse With The Long Hair
  6. Night Right For Love
  7. Paint The Town Beige
  8. Daddy Had A Buick
  9. Crazy Cowboy Dreams
  10. Here In Arkansas
  11. So I Can Take The Rest
  12. Blow you Away- reprise

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of His Best.......2006-08-13

If you become a Robert Earl Keen, Jr. fan as I have, you probably own most or all of his music. I would put this CD just below West Textures and Gringo Honeymoon, and far above some of his others. Amarillo Highway and Corpus Christi Bay are a great start to this re-release, and other highlights include the story of "Jesse" (that song is good once you figure out the story), Night Right for Love, Paint the Town Beige and Crazy Cowboy Dreams. If you are a fan of REK you will not regret buying this CD!

5 out of 5 stars taco thoughts.......2005-04-24

Arguably my favorite Keen disc, from back in the days when you could actually go to an REK show and hear him sing his songs himself. It's discs like this one that have made that impossible - now it's hard to hear Keen's voice over the crowd's singing. Both the crowd and Keen sing a little flat, and maybe a little off-key at times ... the best thing is that his unique voice only makes his songs better. Each track on this disc is listenable ... with more than half of them being superb Keen songs. "Whenever Kindness Fails" is the best this album offers, for me; its theme hits home ... one of those songs that makes you feel like an artist wrote it for you. "Amarillo Highway" is a great take on the Terry Allen original, revved up and stomping when REK sings it. The tale of long-haired Jesse is a classic Keen story, even better than "The Road Goes On Forever" (that surpasses it only in popularity). Of course, "Corpus Christi Bay" is on this disc ... along with "Crazy Cowboy Dream" and "Paint the Town Beige." Some Keen discs may have bigger hits. Some Keen discs may be less eclectic, more consumer-oriented. But this disc has more quality REK material than any of his others. This disc is a must-have for any quality music junkie. Buy it ... you'll see.

5 out of 5 stars What an introduction to an enduring Americana legend!.......2004-09-03

This album was my first introduction to Robert Earl Keen, about 12 years ago. From the stack of years between now and then, I can see where this album is where he really found his voice, moved a little past "gosh I'm tryin' for country" and made Americana Music his own. His lyrics are funny, quirky, sometimes unsettling, and speak truely. "Corpus Christi Bay" is one of my deep all-time favorites, and "Paint The Town Beige"...well, anyone of a certain age can appreciate what he's saying.

His voice is a little raw, a little not-perfect, just like you and me. Try it, you'll be hooked just like I was.
Electronic Works, Vol. 1: Touch - A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur/Gestures
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    Electronic Works, Vol. 1: Touch - A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur/Gestures

    Manufacturer: Mode
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    ASIN: B00005A8HB
    Release Date: 2001-04-24

    Tracks:

    1. Touch: Part One
    2. Touch: Part Two
    3. A Sky Of Cloudless Sulphur: Opening
    4. A Sky Of Cloudless Sulphur: Dance
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    A Piece of Sky
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      A Piece of Sky
      Sean McDermott
      Manufacturer: Jay Records
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B00009N1XG
      Release Date: 2003-07-01

      Tracks:

      1. A Piece of Sky - from Yentl
      2. You Walk with Me - from The Full Monty (with Matt Bogart)
      3. Where Do I Go? - from Hair (with chorus)
      4. Multitudes of Amy - cut from Company
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      6. Music of the Night - from The Phantom of the Opera
      7. I Need to Know - from Jekyll and Hyde
      8. Sun and Moon - from Miss Saigon (with Glory Crampton)
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      Northern Lights: Music of Contemplation for a New Age
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • je ne sais quoi
      • Great CD
      • Northern Lights
      • "It makes me think of tubular bells by Mike Oldfield"
      Northern Lights: Music of Contemplation for a New Age

      Manufacturer: Finlandia
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B000005IFQ
      Release Date: 1995-11-14

      Tracks:

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      3. Trivium (Excerpt) - Rene Eespere
      4. Oremus - Urma Sisask
      5. The Forest - Jukka Linkola
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      12. Adagio Religioso (Excerpt From Music For String Orchestra) - Joonas Kokkonen
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      16. Pater Noster - Urmas Sisask
      17. Trivium (Excerpt) - Rene Eepere

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars je ne sais quoi.......2005-07-02

      The music on this CD is hauntingly beautiful and much of it fills me with strange and wistful longings--a sort of "happy sadness," perhaps correspondent to the German concept of Sehnsucht.

      4 out of 5 stars Great CD.......2002-01-10

      There was only one song on this CD that I did not enjoy. All the rest were great.

      3 out of 5 stars Northern Lights.......2000-06-28

      Better than most "New Age" offerings, thanks to the overall choices and imagery the music conjures up. Northbound is first cut and gives actual feel of travelling very fast over snow and ice. Sounds like a well-crafted soundtrack. Well worth buying when you need a beautiful, lilting symphonic head-journey-or when you just need/want to hear musicians other than U.S./British-born artists.

      Some of the cuts are quite moving, some sturm und drang, and others reminiscent of the best of classical artists. One friend told me he could almost hear the ice crackling underfoot in one track, and another said he thought of the time he saw flights of geese southbound for the winter.

      2 out of 5 stars "It makes me think of tubular bells by Mike Oldfield".......1999-02-13

      "Music composed by Sisask is classical but added with a touch of symphonical rock. It was the feast of recognising when I listend to compositions like the forest. I only hope that Sisask does not go to far into the forest of early rock and roll"
      A Bigger Piece Of Sky
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        A Bigger Piece Of Sky
        Jr. Robert Earl Keen
        Manufacturer: Sugarhill [Country]
        ProductGroup: Music
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        ASIN: B000000EWR
        Release Date: 1993-10-08

        Tracks:

        1. So I Can Take My Rest
        2. Whenever Kindness Fails
        3. Amarillo Highway
        4. Night Right For Love
        5. Jesse With The Long Hair...
        6. Blow You Away
        7. Here In Arkansas
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        11. Paint The Town Beige
        12. Bonus Track 1

        Amazon.com

        Robert Earl Keen is the Sam Peckinpah of the singer-songwriter movement. Almost alone in a field dominated by "sensitive" types, Keen is willing to write songs about America's--especially his native Texas'--obsession with guns and violence. Although he is often pigeonholed (and not without reason) as a comic songwriter, guns are all over his fourth album, A Bigger Piece of the Sky. Keen is not a great singer (he sounds like Jerry Jeff Walker with a cold), but he is one of the best lyricists in a state crawling with them.

        Keen's "Jesse with the Long Hair...," for example, is a Peckinpah movie condensed to three succinct verses. It stars wanted-man Jesse, his ambivalent girl friend Luann, his old pal Sheriff Paul and the corrupt banker Mr. Brown; you may have to listen several times to figure out what happens when all four pull out their guns. "Blow You Away" is a more modern tale of paranoia; each verse describes an everyday scene (stopping at a gas station, cashing a check at the bank) that could suddenly erupt into violence. The violence never comes--and the song, appropriately enough, doesn't have a chorus--but Keen's voice and Marty Stuart's mandolin keep increasing the tension.

        The album also includes a lovely romantic duet with Maura O'Connell and ends with three fine songs about a Corpus Christi drunk, a rodeo rider and a desperado turned fisherman, all growing old gracefully. Nonetheless the highlights include "Here in Arkansas," the complaint of a recently murdered man rendered ghostly by George Marinelli's slide guitar, and "Whenever Kindness Fails," an explanation of why the singer uses his gun to teach simple courtesy. Joe Ely covered the latter song on his last album, and if Keen can't hope to match Ely's vocal, at least he can surround the song with others of the same strange sensibility. --Geoffrey Himes
        Piece of Paradise
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          Piece of Paradise
          Sky
          Manufacturer: Arista
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          ASIN: B00000JCNE
          Release Date: 1999-06-29

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          Piece of Paradise
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            Piece of Paradise
            Sky
            Manufacturer: Emi
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            ASIN: B00000JD29
            Release Date: 1999-05-18

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            High on the Canadian Charts May 1999.
            Sky Piece
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              Sky Piece
              Thomas Chapin Trio
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              Baby Concerts Bedtime
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                Baby Concerts Bedtime
                Flute Soloist Pedro Eustache , and Arrangements and Orchestrations Cesar Benitez
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                Release Date: 2006-04-12

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                1. "Weigenlied" (Lullaby), Op. 48, No. 4 / Brahms 1:51
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                3. "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi / Puccini 2:27
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                8. Berceuse from Dolly Suite, Op. 56 / Faure 2:13
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                Product Description

                Baby Concerts is a new approach to the classics. It's music to grow on that the whole family can enjoy - a gift that can last a lifetime. The bedtime concert is inspired by the music of thirteen composers and lullabies from French and Spanish traditions. The orchestrations are soft and slow in tempo, with lush strings and repeating themes. The music coaxes your baby to sleep and dream, whether in the car, in the cradle or safe in your arms.
                The Complete Organ Works of Sir Hubert Parry
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                  The Complete Organ Works of Sir Hubert Parry

                  Manufacturer: Priory Records UK
                  ProductGroup: Music
                  Binding: Audio CD

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