yeah, that's the kind of paragraph you stumble upon years later and realize how completely naive and off the mark you were.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 7 June 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
His voice and songs fuckin' break my heart. And that's all that matters to me.
― banjoboy, Sunday, 28 June 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61tWL7qrO5L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
^^^ this is really, really great. i think i actually like it better than all the records.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
its well mastered too so it sounds really warm and organic, all the albums always felt like they were recorded in a sardine can to me.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
"This DJ tried to ask me how it felt to be leading the Progressive Country movement, I told him we played Regressive Country." - emmylou
<33333333333
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
ohh i didn't know about that, and now i need it.
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
I've never really dug deep into Parsons catalog but I gotta say that the Hank Williams inversion in Hippie Boy is pretty clever
I didn't hear Sweetheart of the Rodeo until long after I'd gotten familiar with Bakersfield's country scene and it just sounded like half-assed shit to me. maybe I would feel differently about it now.
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
i much prefer ISB, burrito bros, and solo parsons to sweetheart of the rodeo, unless it's the parson-sung originals. mcguinn isn't convincing on that album, imo
― marcos, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
yep. solo parsons > burritos >>> sweetheart.
― fit and working again, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
sweetheart is a totally sweet record
― tylerw, Monday, 16 December 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
I thought that was a Chris Hillman track?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Got Burrito?
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
Buritto no 2 vs Rundgren's Hello it's me
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
Latter may be more smooth but former has the energy
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
Is "Oh Lord, grant me speed" a reference to speed.....or speed?
― Sam Weller, Friday, 10 May 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
That line is from the bible.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
i promise that i'm going to go back and read the other 102 posts in this thread, but wtf is up with the first three posts. holy shit, a criticism of G.P. /Grievous Angel that "parsons's voice works much better in tandem with another singer", without even mentioning that those albums were basically duets with emmylou fucking harris?
it's been a very gram parsons weekend. i have been fond of his byrds output for a while now, and knew the 'hot burritos' on the first flying burrito bros, but i had never really set aside a bunch of consecutive time to focus on his albums with the bros and his solo albums. they are so, so good. i love that feeling of hearing a personal instant classic, knowing i'm going to hear these songs a ton of more times.
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Early ILX is pretty much ChallopsCity.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
That’s the place for you and me
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Someone gave me two boxes of albums a few days ago. Only kept about 20, the best thing being a late-'70s reissue of the Early Years compilation (slightly different cover than the original).
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
Saw the bio Twenty Thousand Roads in The Strand this week, thinking about reading it. Either that or Will Birch’s Nick Lowe bio.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
there was a tribute album that came out like 20 years ago that was pretty good, def one of the very few of these trendy bands covering canonical artists comps that I would reach for over and over
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 3 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
“On his head an amphetamine crown”
― calstars, Saturday, 4 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
What would I keep? These.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
"How Much I've Lied" is on there twice.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
Good -- I can slip "Hippie Boy" in there.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
No "Sin City," Alfred?? I couldn't do without all of Gilded Palace, Grievous Angel, parts of several others--thought some of the GP material worked better on that live album Hoos cheers for upthread (the Fallen Angels being pretty much the GP/GA studio band). He had this little, crinkly, quirky voice---a bit teary here, sneery there, but good with the succinct phrasing, occasional Lou Reedy dreams sliding by---think he mostly knew he was better with other voices, especially stepping back just a little, so that less experienced Emmylou had to step up, or sound like it.This is a handy overview, with his voice mixed back up on the Byrds tracks, before Sony did that, I think:https://www.discogs.com/Gram-Parsons-Warm-Evenings-Pale-Mornings-Bottled-Blues-1963-1973/release/3275973
― dow, Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:16 (four years ago) link
Chris Hillman is the voice you hear in Hippie Boy
― buzza, Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:52 (four years ago) link
https://coolspod.com/products/shopcoolpod-3d-custom-gram-parsons-nudie-suit-apparel-v2-1
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
“Yes you loved meAnd you sold my clothes”
― calstars, Sunday, 10 April 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
that Live 1973 album is such a lovely thing, i listen to it a lot
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
shit, i don't listen to it enough!
no one has asked for it, and this would convince zero juries of my peers, but i have to give my excuse anyway:
i have his GP and Grievous Angel LPs, along with Notorious Byrd Brothers, and i played the crap out of them. but 1) when i moved i left all my LPs behind except for like 20. GP and Grievous Angel are among the chosen.
But my terrible shame is that I'm not sure I've even heard the Live 1973 album at all. gonna fix that tonight.
*tip of the hat*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 June 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
it has a lot of warmth imoand i love that version of “we’ll sweep out the ashes”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the rec! Listening now and Lordy Gram struck some kind of gold getting Emmylou for backing vocals.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 12 June 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
there’s an alternate reality where the Grateful Dead have Emmylou instead of Donna.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 12 June 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
it’s stunning to realize emmylou had only recorded her first album just a few years prior, she’s still so new and young but so incredible already… her harmonies with gram are lightyears above what he’d done w hillmani mean, apples and oranges really but still
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
His death was an absolute classic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 June 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link