The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (ACTUAL THREAD HERE)

yah but tbh i meant http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/ryan.jpg

god

yea this album rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGdGdjc9GfI

byrds doing "rollin' in my sweet baby's arms"

Didn't realise how much I was in the mood for this till I watched those vids. earl scruggs is rocking indeed.

http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/levisjomorajan05.jpg

wotta poster

faux real

That is so dumb that I can't help snickering at it. Like the Olson twin with the "You got it, dude" caption. Same realm.

tell us more!

Don't be impolite.

i'm going to listen to this album !!!

oops plan derailed, i don't have this one

listening to notorious byrd bros instead but its just not hte same...

will put this on after the Townes van Zandt record.

hands up who's still rockin sweetheart on the regular?

roxy otm this shit is unfuckwithable.

― ian, Friday, November 6, 2009 8:02 PM (1 week ago)

ian i always rock this on the regular

tho i listened to gp/grievous angel on the ride home 2nite

i think until ayovember started it had remained filed for several months. a mistake obvs.
the best gram for my money is still the gilded palace of sin <3

on the regular <3

there's a lol drugs joke in there somewhere, i can feel it

xp to ian

i kno it is not on sweethearts but god i love 'return of the grievous angel'

I REMEMBERED SOMETHING U ONCE TOLD ME

i love gram so much, i even have his photo on my living room wall.

i did not know that about you estela!

estela u r a dream and that is real talk

my friend A also has a picture of gram on the wall and it is at least reason #6 why i <3 her so much

everyone should have a photo of gram on their wall.

his outfit in the hot burrito 1 youtube thing I posted elsewhere is hilaarious.

where did you post it?

OPO: Flying Burrito Brothers (songs)

And I didn't get an answer :(

i remember now, i tried to find it for you but i couldn't.

<3<3<3 estela

aw<3

ha thanks for trying!

it was my pleasure.

man gram doesn't come off well at all in the hotel california book i'm reading. he really bummed a lot of people out.

there's an early - prob international submarine band era - vid clip of gram performing on a boat - so he's prob 'luxury liner', really can't remember - where he does this terrible, i mean just awful, camp jagger impersonation, kinda punctured the myth a bit for me, for a while - but so glad i finally got to hear his vocal version of '100 years from now', one of the bonus tracks on the expanded edition of 'sweetheart'

i def remember an old ilx thread where lots of ppl were really slagging of 'sweetheart' and i was like :-((( so thanx for this thread folx

prob singing 'luxury liner'

man gram doesn't come off well at all in the hotel california book i'm reading. he really bummed a lot of people out.

i guess i always sorta suspected this? what little i know of his life (i'm vague on much other than "harvard dropout," "was in byrds," "liked drugs," and "friends stole body, supposedly?"), for some reason, made me assume that he was better at singing country than he was at conducting life

musician in blah blah blah shocka

yeah, don't get me wrong. i like this album and the burritos stuff a bunch. just weird reading about how he was really a non-entity to a lot of people at that time. like an "oh is that guy still alive?" kinda thing. but, you know, its 1969! he wasn't taken seriously by a lot of people. the myth came later.

listenin to this bitch right now

there's an early - prob international submarine band era - vid clip of gram performing on a boat - so he's prob 'luxury liner', really can't remember - where he does this terrible, i mean just awful, camp jagger impersonation, kinda punctured the myth a bit for me, for a while

wait are you talkin about this "older guys" clip? i have to admit to thinking it's sort of great. goofy, but great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmcT4qieI4

haha i love how the other dudes look in that clip

lol i used a to date a girl who looked remarkably like Gram in that video. she had short red hair tho.

i tried to cut my hair like gram once when i was wasted, but ive told that story on ilx like 3000 times. anyway its still growing out

i always like that story, it was a good impulse.

was going for this iirc

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/gram-parsons.jpg

ok ok i get it

I had no use for it but R.I.P. anyway

mcguinn is good even though he's obv frontin a bit on sweethearts

he sounds great, and hillman is the most competent harmony singer maybe ever imo

gram sounds A+++

(on the alt takes on this. i dont really care for his solo stuff. can't step to his vox tho in general)

hillman is super smooth, his vocals on gilded palace get overlooked

otm

pulled this out for the first time in a while when i had a half-hour drive to do for work, on a sunny morning at the beginning of fall, perfect soundtrack.

Others find pleasure in things I despise

this album should absolutely not work with my tastes, but I love it

just posted this on rolling country, but then realized this belongs on a proper sweetheart of the rodeo thread. so cutting & pasting:

roger mcguinn, chris hillman and marty stuart & his fabulous superlatives, sweetheart of the rodeo full album show, los angeles, tuesday night. opening night of a short-ish tour. it was ragged, loose, occasionally awkward and more than occasionally great. they did one set of truncated versions of hits and deep cuts, and then the sweetheart of the rodeo set, played in full but out of order. i got the sense that stuart and the superlatives rehearsed thoroughly on their own and mcguinn and hillman maybe not so much. they missed cues left and right, were looking down frequently for chords and lyrics, and while hillman's voice was in good form, mcguinn was having a little trouble cutting through. but their instincts for harmony are still dead-on, and stuart fit right into that. i felt like i was watching a band still working out its sound, and as a result, when something gelled, when they hit a sweet spot, it was magical. like watching a band discover itself in real time. and that second set was way better than the first. it felt like having a piece of my own dna read back to me. maybe they felt the same.

encore: two byrds classics and three tom petty classics. i was wondering if maybe they would be able to coax david crosby (who i assume still lives here though i have no idea) onto the stage for a song or two. instead we got mike campbell, who joined for "american girl" -- after which they kicked him off and, strangely, played more petty songs without him. marty stuart did a bluegrassy take on "runnin' down a dream" (thumbs up) and hillman did a fairly faithful "wildflowers," which apparently petty produced for him for an album he put out last year.

they also told some stories. they're not particularly good storytellers. damn those harmonies though.

realized that this is probably one of my favorite albums. like, the sheer number of times I've thrown it on! and it's always a pleasure. really appreciating the sound and the instrumental performances this time around.

what is it exactly that makes it sound more magical/shimmery/full/psychedelic than just your average country record? is it the drumming? the organ?

used to think blue canadian rockies was the dud of this album, but it is now one of my faves.

It's always been one of my favourites tbh.

I love Hillman on that song; I get such feeling and a strange mix of confidence and vulnerability from his singing that I think he might be my favourite of all the vocalists they had.

Hillman is super underrated, great harmonist

classic

Seconded

thirded

One of my favorite albums to sing along with.

otm

One of my favorite albums to sing along with.

...said Roger McGuinn

...to Gram Parsons' chagrin

Was wondering