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Review:
Gram Parsons Archive, Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969
There have been numerous incarnations of the
Flying Burrito Brothers Band. We'll focuses primarily on the first
four releases through the Chris Hillman era, and the supplemental
material recorded within that time period. The first two with Gram
Parsons; The Gilded Palace of Sin, and Burrito Deluxe the third
self-titled studio album with Rick Roberts, as well as the
fourth, a live recording entitled, Last of the Red Hot Burritos.
For additional Flying Burrito Brothers material
with Gram Parsons beyond the first two releases, there are a number
of studio recordings that appeared on Sleepless Nights and as
various bonus tracks on reissues. These outtakes were to be on a pure country
music Burritos album that never materialized.
If you're keeping
track:
On Farther Along: Best Of The Flying Burrito
Brothers, but not on Sleepless Nights
1. Six Days On The Road
3. Break My Mind
7. To Love Somebody
On Sleepless Nights, not on Farther Along: Best Of The Flying Burrito
Brothers
4. Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven
5. Crazy Arms
8. Together Again
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Green, Green Grass Of Home
Others, on different collections as a bonus track:
I Shall Be Released
Their first four CD's are packaged together in various ways,
which we present below.
First Four Albums
The Gilded Palace of Sin
Burrito Deluxe
The Flying Burrito Brothers Band
Last of the Red Hot Burritos
Also
Sleepless Nights
Gram Parsons Archive, Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969
The
Flying Burrito Brothers Personnel
The Gilded Palace of Sin
Gram Parsons - Guitar (Rhythm), Keyboards, Vocals
Chris Hillman - Mandolin, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
Chris Ethridge - Bass, Piano
Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Guitar (Steel)
Additional personnel
Jon Corneal - Drums (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7)
Eddie Hoh - Drums (tracks 2, 10)
Sam Goldstein - Drums (track 6)
Popeye Phillips - Drums (tracks (8, 9, 11)
Burrito Deluxe
Gram Parsons - Guitar (Rhythm), Keyboards, Vocals
Chris Hillman - Mandolin, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
Bernie Leadon - Guitar, Banjo
Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Pedal Steel Guitar
Michael Clarke - Drums
Additional personnel
Leon Russell - Piano (Tracks 17 - 23
Byron Berline - fiddle
Leopoldo Carbajal - accordion
Frank Blanco - percussion
Tommy Johnson - tuba
Buddy Childres - Conet, Flugelhorn
The Flying Burrito Brothers
(self-titled 3rd album)
Chris Hillman - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Rick Roberts - Guitar, Vocals
Bernie Leadon - Guitar, Banjo
Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Pedal Steel Guitar
Michael Clarke - Drums
Last of the Red Hot Burritos
Chris Hillman on bass and lead vocals
Rick Roberts, guitar and vocals
Al Perkins, pedal steel
Michael Clarke on drums,
along with
Kenny Wertz, guitar and vocals
Byron Berline, fiddle
Roger Bush, acoustic bass
Flying Burrito Brothers Band fans. Nashville
West is a must.
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Farther Along: Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers |
Audio CD |
Last of the Red Hot Burritos |
Farther Along: Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers
- First three albums, plus 11 bonus tracks, including seven tracks
with Gram Parsons to lead off disc 2, much of this is included on
Sleepless Nights.
Last of the Red Hot Burritos - Live 1971 performance,
1972 original release date.
Disc: 1
Gilded Palace
of Sin
1. Christine's Tune (A.K.A. Devil In Disguise)
2. Sin City
3. Do Right Woman
4. Dark End Of The Street
5. My Uncle
6. Wheels
7. Juanita
8. Hot Burrito #1
9. Hot Burrito #2
10. Do You Know How It Feels
11. Hippie Boy
Additional track
12. The Train Song (Single)
Burrito Deluxe
13. Lazy Days
14. Image Of Me
15. High Fashion Queen
16. If You Gotta Go
17. Man In The Fog
18. Farther Along
19. Older Guys
20. Cody, Cody
21. God's Own Singer
22. Down In The Churchyard
23. Wild Horses
Disc: 2
Bonus Tracks
1. Six Days On The Road
2. Close Up The Honky Tonks
3. Break My Mind
4. Dim Lights
5. Sing Me Back Home
6. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
7. To Love Somebody
without Gram Parsons
Self-Titled Album
Tracks 8 - 20
8. White Line Fever
9. Colorado
10. Hand To Mouth
11. Tried So Hard
12. Just Can't Be
13. To Ramona
14. Four Days Of Rain
15. Can't You Hear Me Calling
16. All Alone
17. Why Are You Crying
Bonus Tracks
18. Here Tonight
19. Ain't That A Lot Of Love
20. Losing Game (Live)
Disc 1
Tracks 1-11 on disc one comprise the complete Gilded Palace
of Sin album.
Tracks 13-23 present Burrito Deluxe in its
entirety.
Disc 2
The first 7 tracks are from an aborted covers album and
represent Parsons' last recordings with the Burritos. Much of was released on Sleepless
Nights.
Tracks 8-17 were recorded post Gram Parsons
Tracks 18 - 20 - bonus tracks
Last of the Red Hot Burritos
1. Christine's Tune [Aka Devil in Disguise]
2. Six Days on the Road
3. My Uncle
4. Dixie Breakdown
5. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
6. Orange Blossom Special
7. Ain't That a Lot of Love
8. High Fashion Queen
9. Don't Fight It
10. Hot Burrito No. 2
11. Losing Game
Note: There are some editions of this CD with bonus tracks:
Wake Up Little Susie
Money Honey
One Hundred Years From Now
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The Definitive Collection |
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Definitive Collection |
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The Definitive Collection
contains a generous
25 tracks. It includes the two albums with Parsons, The Gilded Palace Of Sin and 1969's
Burrito Deluxe along with three bonus tracks
-- the rare non-LP single "The Train Song,"
and covers of "Six Days On The Road" and "Close
Up The Honky-Tonks."
The same collection was released years earlier as Sin City:
The Very Best Of The Flying Burritos. Liner notes by Robyn Flans. These are both
good 24 bit remastered from the
original source tape discs.
There are several similar releases of the first
two Flying Burrito Brothers material such as, The Gilded Palace of Sin / Burrito Deluxe,
and Farther Along: Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers. They may not all sound the
same.
The Gilded Palace of Sin
1. Christine's Tune (aka Devil in the Disguise)
2. Sin City
3. Do Right Woman
4. Dark End of the Street
5. My Uncle
6. Wheels
7. Juanita
8. Hot Burrito #1
9. Hot Burrito #2
10. Do You Know How It Feels?
11. Hippie Boy
Additional track
12. Train Song
Burrito Deluxe
13. Lazy Days
14. Image of Me
15. High Fashion Queen
16. If You Gotta Go
17. Man in the Fog
18. Farther Along
19. Older Guys
20. Cody, Cody
21. God's Own Singer
22. Down in the Churchyard
23. Wild Horses
Additional tracks
24. Six Days on the Road
25. Close Up the Honky Tonks
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The Flying Burrito Bros./Last of the Red Hot Burritos |
Audio |
Manassas
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While not with Gram
Parsons, their next two albums with Hillman are sold as a two for one. Manassas
is noted, which is a band he and Al Perkins joined after the
Burritos. Manassas was lead by Stephen Stills.
Self-titled third album
May 1971
1. White Line Fever
2. Colorado
3. Hand to Mouth
4. Tried So Hard
5. Just Can't Be
6. To Ramona
7. Four Days of Rain
8. Can't You Hear Me Calling
9. All Alone
10. Why Are You Crying
Last of the Red Hot Burritos
11. Devil in Disguise
12. Six Days on the Road
13. My Uncle
14. Dixie Breakdown
15. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
16. Orange Blossom Special
17. Ain't That a Lot of Love
18. High Fashion Queen
19. Don't Fight It
20. Hot Burrito, Pt. 2
21. Losing Game
Bonus Tracks
Two bonus tracks, both Gene Clark songs are included: the 45 version of "Tried So Hard", and Gene's "Here Tonight",
22. Here Tonight
23. Tried So Hard
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Sleepless Nights |
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1. Brand New Heartache *
2. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
3. Sing Me Back Home
4. Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven
5. Crazy Arms
6. Sleepless Nights *
7. Close Up The Honky Tonks
8. Together Again
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Green, Green Grass Of Home
11. Dim Lights
12. The Angels Rejoiced Last Night *
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*Duets
with Emmylou Harris (Grievous Angel sessions) - Also
released on Gram
Parsons: The Complete Reprise Sessions and Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology.
The other tracks are with the Flying Burrito Brothers from 1970.
When recording the material included on this release, they
were playing honky-tonk pure county album.
Flying
Burrito Brothers
Several
of the Flying Burrito Brothers songs from Sleepless Nights were also released on Hot Burritos! The Flying Burrito Bros. Anthology 1969-1972
Gram Parsons - Guitar (Rhythm), Keyboards, Vocals
Chris Hillman - Mandolin, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
Bernie Leadon - Guitar, Banjo
Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Pedal Steel Guitar
Michael Clarke - Drums Length:
38 minutes
Liner notes Bud Scoppa, and Emmylou Harris |
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Gram Parsons Archive, Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 |
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Disc 1 (April 4th):
1. Close Up the Honky Tonks
2. Dark End of the Street
3. Undo The Right/Somebody's Back In Town
4. She Once Lived Here
5. We've Got to Get Ourselves Together
6. Lucille
7. Hot Burrito #1
8. Hot Burrito #2
9. Long Black Limousine
10. Mental Revenge
11. Sin City
12. Thousand Dollar Wedding (bonus track, not from live
concert)
13. When Will I Be Loved (ditto)
Disc 2 (April 6th):
1. Undo The Right/Somebody's Back In Town
2. She Once Lived Here
3. Mental Revenge
4. We've Got to Get Ourselves Together
5. Lucille
6. Sin City
7. You Win Again
8. Hot Burrito #1
9. Hot Burrito #2
10. You're Still On My Mind
11. Train Song
12. Long Black Limousine
13. Sweet Dream Baby
14. Do Right Woman
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Review
The
Grateful Dead were pioneers in recording
shows. The Flying Burrito Brothers opened the concerts for
them at the Avalon in early April. The tapes were rolling for
the Flying Burrito Brother shows and from the Grateful Dead vault to your CD player
are two live gems.
The discs have pretty good sound, but they do not
bounce with fidelity. To me, the Flying Burrito Brothers
greatest charm is the vocals. That part of the sound is fairly
intact, with some hiss. What the recordings lack is
richness in tone (especially the bass) some separation and
general clarity. We're talking about 2 track recordings from
1969 that weren't recorded for the purpose of a live release.
These recordings came out of the Grateful Dead vault,
and I'm confident they would have sounded a bit better if the
Grateful Dead had the task of remastering and producing them.
The sound is not poor, I just want to set expectations; it
is not near the quality of Gram's live
1973 release.
What is interesting is that in 1971, the
Grateful Dead's music was more similar to this than in 1969. They didn't
use a pedal steel, but at times, Garcia made his guitar sound like
one. Though in other side Jerry Garcia endeavors, Jerry played
pedal steel guitar, especially with the New
Riders of the Purple Sage. The Flying Burrito Brothers
music would have been more complimentary in 1971.
My preference is the second disc. It
includes versions of key tracks not on the Aug. 4 show:
"Do Right Woman," "You Win Again," and
"Long Black Limousine."
Disc one offers two non-live bonus tracks; I
find them less enjoyable than the live show. The liner notes
explain these are from Jimmi Seiter's vault and indicate there
is more and future archives releases are being planned. The
liner notes also hint at a probable Old
and in the Way box set (a band that includes David
Grisman, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, and others.
While Gram Parsons Archive, Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969
isn't a substitute for
their studio albums, it is as enjoyable to listen to. In fact, the
two versions of "She Once Lived There" alone
make the album worth buying.
Produced for release by Dave Prinz
Recorded by Owsley "Bear" Stanley
Liner notes Pamela Des Barres, David Prinz
Ameoba
Records
by Barry Small
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Press releases:
Nov. 5, 2007
Lost Gram Parsons Recordings Will Reappear At The Stroke Of Midnight Nov. 6
Amoeba Records will make 'Gram Parsons Archives, Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969' available for download at 12:01am ET on November 6 exclusively at Amoeba.com
Gram Parsons fans looking to get their ears on some never-before-heard Gram Parsons can do it at the stroke of midnight on November 6th. At 12:01am ET, ‘Gram Parsons Archives, Vol 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969,’ will be available for purchase as a download exclusively at
Amoeba.com. The two CD, 27-track set includes a number of never-before-heard -- though long rumored -- rarities.
Gram Parsons, leading the Flying Burrito Brothers, opened for the Grateful Dead April 4, 5 and 6, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The April 4th show has never been heard in any form. The bonus disc is the April 6th show. For years these tapes were rumored to exist and were finally unearthed in the Grateful Dead vault. The shows were recorded by the legendary sound engineer Bear
(Owsley Stanley), and are the highest quality Gram Parsons live material available. Disc 1 also contains 2 previously unreleased home recordings; “Thousand Dollar Wedding,” recorded in LA in 1969 by Jimmi
Seiter, and “When Will I Be Loved,” recorded in NYC in 1967, also by
Seiter.
August 16, 2007
Two-CD, High Fidelity Live Set 'Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers "Live" At The Avalon 1969' Out November 6th On Amoeba Records
Material From 1969 Found In Grateful Dead Vaults; Features Ten Songs Never Recorded By Parsons And Never Before Available
Amoeba Records will release a major addition to Gram Parsons' discography with ‘Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers “Live” at the Avalon 1969’, due November 6th from the newly formed label. The two CD, 27-track set includes a number of never-before-heard -- though long rumored -- rarities.
Gram Parsons, leading the Flying Burrito Brothers, opened for the Grateful Dead April 4, 5 and 6, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The April 4th show has never been heard in any form. The bonus disc is the April 6th show. For years these tapes were rumored to exist and were finally unearthed in the Grateful Dead vault. The shows were recorded by the legendary sound engineer Bear
(Owsley Stanley), and are the highest quality Gram Parsons live material available.
Amoeba Records, started by the owners of the revered independent record store of the same name, is launching with the August 28 release of smoky-voiced singer and songwriter Brandi Shearer’s ‘Close to Dark.’ The album is co-produced by Larry Klein, known for his work with Joni Mitchell and Madeleine
Peyroux, among others.
Rarities on ‘Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers “Live” at the Avalon 1969’ include Gram’s unique choice of mainly country standards, which are not on any other official Gram Parsons recording:
Undo The Right/Somebody’s Back In Town
She Once Lived Here
Mental Revenge
We’ve Got To Get Ourselves Together
Lucille
You Win Again
Long Black Limousine
Sweet Dream Baby
When Will I Be Loved
Nov. 16, 2007
Gram Parsons Archives “A Vital Addition”
‘Gram Parsons Archives, Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969,’ out now on Amoeba Records, is being hailed by critics as an essential addition to the Gram Parsons legacy. Here’s what we’ve been hearing:
“This deluxe two-CD set is a vital addition...a pair of shows that capture Parson’s dream- a new American union of R&B, psychedelic rebellion and rock’s country roots.”
-David Fricke, Rolling Stone (4-stars)
“This two-CD live set features Parsons, the late country-rock trailblazer, at his prime...the bonus track alone- a sparse demo of ‘Thousand Dollar Wedding’- was worth the 38-year wait.”
-Shirley Halperin, Entertainment Weekly
“Parsons at his heart-aching best.”
-Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle
“If you’ve ever been touched by Parson’s voice you will probably share Prinz’s enthusiasm when you listen to these two concerts.”
-Robert Hilburn, Los Angeles Times
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