A Bigger Piece Of Sky

Artist: Jr. Robert Earl Keen
Label: Sugarhill [Country]
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 015891103723
EAN: 0015891103723
ASIN: B000000EWR

Release Date: 1993-10-08

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Favorite Texas Music
Music that makes me smile. Or why I'm happy to have ears.
Best Texas Country Period
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Tracks:

So I Can Take My Rest
Whenever Kindness Fails
Amarillo Highway
Night Right For Love
Jesse With The Long Hair...
Blow You Away
Here In Arkansas
Daddy Had A Buick
Corpus Christi Bay
Crazy Cowboy Dream
Paint The Town Beige
Bonus Track 1

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Customer Reviews:

Great REK.......2005-08-29

This is the second REK album I ever bought and it is still one of my favorites to this day. A true music legend.

Keen At His Best.......2003-09-27

This is without doubt my favorite REK cd. Every song on the album is masterfully written and Keen's ability to tell a story is phenomenal. True to Keen's form, Bigger Piece of Sky's songs are filled with colorful characters yet boast a complexity rarely seen in modern country. Whenever Kindness Fails and Here in Arkansas are especially gripping. If you are unfamiliar with the artist and wish to hear him at his best, look no further - Bigger Piece of Sky is as good as it gets.

Taco Thoughts.......2002-02-11

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.

Fantastic CD... Hard to beat..........2001-10-29

This is one of my favorite CDs. Every song on it is consistently good. It was composed before the band lost Duckworth, so this is REK at his best! If you like country and are tired of the top-40 they play on country radio these days, try this.

Longhorns suck.......2001-08-13

This is truley one of the best albums to come out of Texas in a long while. Do yourself a favor and buy this along with all of Keen's other albums. If your lucky, this will open the door to many other Texas songwriters you'll get to know if you look around. Keen's music is the next best thing to actually moving to Texas.

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