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Click cosmic Gram to hear him
fronting a live Flying Burrito Brothers' performance at
San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, 1969.
"You're Still On My Mind" was one of the first songs Gram sang lead on with his earlier group, the Byrds.
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| Click Keith Richards and Gram in a jamming-song-writing session, 1971, south France, during the recording of the Stones' Exile on Main Street. Gram played a big part in steering the Stones toward country music. The two collaborated on the song "Wild Horses." Here is the Burritos' version. |
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| Burrito bandmate Chris Hillman told Gram about Emmylou Harris, then an unknown coffee house folk singer in the D.C. area. He went to see her play and they tightened it up right away, performing and recording together. Following Gram's death in 1973, Emmylou championed his music at her concerts, often singing and recording his songs. |
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| "Wheels" is one of my favorite Burrito Brothers' songs. It is a main rail of the mythical, mystical Fish Hawk Country soundtrack - https://fish-hawk-country.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-music-they-listened-to-in-fish-hawk.html |
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| "Do Right Woman" |
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The Flying Burrito Brothers' 1969 album, The Gilded Palace
of Sin, realized Gram's musical vision: a modernized version of
the Bakersfield sound that Buck Owens popularized mixed
with strands of soul and psychedelic rock. The band appeared on the album
cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie trappings. Nudie
Cohn, was a tailor who designed decorative rhinestone-covered suits, known
popularly as "Nudie Suits," and other elaborate outfits for some of
the most famous celebrities of his era. Customers included Elvis, Gene
Autrey, Cher, and Glen Campbell. Clicking the pic opens a YouTube playlist of the album.
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This day 72 years ago Gram Parsons was born. He, in and of himself was an icon who made beautiful music & sadly, left this earth before most of the world had the chance to hear what he had inside to offer. We truly lost a Grievous Angel that September day when he died. The music he did contribute was truly beautiful and the fortunate ones that have come to know it, still believe that to this day
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nancy. Of course I thoroughly agree with you. I held off crediting Gram with *founding* "country-rock," though he sure was one of its pioneers. But Dylan came out with John Wesley Hardin recorded in Nashville in 1967, followed by The Band's Music from Big Pink. Nevertheless, I could listen to Gram, The Burrito Brothers, and Emmylou for hours (and I have!) [Note: I do another blog featuring my novel-in-progress. Its working title: Fish Hawk Country - Dropping in on the Dropouts (The Spirituality of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll). It's based on my experiences in the Cascade Mountains in the late 60s. Here's a link to a page spotlighting the music some of the characters listened to back then, which includes the Flying Burrito Brothers. https://fish-hawk-country.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-music-they-listened-to-in-fish-hawk.html
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