A Bigger Piece Of Sky

A Bigger Piece of Sky is an album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen. It was released in the United States in 1993 by Sugar Hill Records and re-released in SACD format with the originally intended track sequencing in 2004 by Koch Records. The title of the album comes from a line in the opening verse of "Paint the Town Beige": I gave up the fast lane for a blacktop country road Just burned out on all that talk about the mother lode, I traded for a songbird and a bigger piece of sky When I miss the good old days I can't imagine why. The album is frequently cited to be one of Keen's best if not the best and is considered to be a transitional point in his career as an artist. The album brings together various elements of alternative country such as roots-rock, honky tonk, and folk to form Keen's own cohesive blend of Texas music. Reviewers cite "Corpus Christi Bay", "Whenever Kindness Fails", "So I Can Take My Rest", and "Paint the Town Beige" as stand-out tracks. Keen's down-beat duet with Irish singer Maura O'Connell, "Night Right for Love" is also worthy of note as is Keen's cover of Terry Allen's "Amarillo Highway". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bigge...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)