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“Undo The Right”, is the 3rd track from Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969. Subsequent free downloads will be taken from disc one of this release every other week. The next download will be posted there beginning on January 28th.


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Gram Parsons- Live Archive, Vol. 1

At the time of this incredible two-disc set's release in 2007, the Gram Parsons rarities well had been wrung so dry that Amoeba Records co-founder Dave Pinz had to nose around another band's vaults (the notoriously deep archives of the Grateful Dead) for these Flying Burrito Brothers tapes. The material--recorded by Bear Stanley, the Grateful Dead's legendary live engineer--comprises two honky tonk-heavy sets from April 4, 1969 and April 6, 1969, when the Brothers opened for the Dead at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom.

While the Parsons-era Burritos were never the tightest live band, Archives, Vol.1 captures the one short era during which everyone in the band was together, getting along, and feeling great about the music they had discovered. You can hear it in the tracks: Chris Hillman's delicate harmony on "Dark End of the Street," Sneaky Pete Kleinow's pedal steel pyrotechnics on Waylon Jennings's "Sweet Mental Revenge," and Parsons's lovely tenor on a devastating version of "Hot Burrito #1." This is the band's finest hour; it didn't last long, but thankfully for fans, it is thrillingly captured here.

Sin City (Live)
Thousand-Dollar Wedding (Home Demo)

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Happy Birthday

November 5th was two of my favorite artists birthday's. Gram Parsons would have turned 61 yesterday had he still been alive, and Ryan Adams turned 33. Is it just a coincidence these two have the same birthday, or was it part of God's master plan? Both have similar musical styles, as well as both of them being under appreciated and misunderstood at times. One big difference is that Ryan thankfully has seemed to beaten the demons that sadly took Gram from us far too soon. The following is a show at the Seattle Pop Festival of Gram with his band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and I have also included a couple MP3's of Ryan covering Gram at the bottom of the post. Take some time out to appreciate these two amazing and talented artists.


Flying Burrito Brothers
Seattle Pop Festival
Seattle, WA
7-27-69

-Close Up The Honky Tonks
-The Dark End Of The Street
-Sweet Mental Revenge
-The Image Of Me
-Christine's Tune
-Sin City
-Man In A Fog
-Wake Up Little Suzie
-You Win Again
-We've Got To Get Ourselves Together
-She Thinks I Still Care
-Sweet Dreams Baby
-Lucille
-Take A Message To Mary
-Train Song

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Ryan Adams

Return Of The Grievous Angel
Hickory Wind

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Ryan Adams.com *** Myspace *** CD's *** eMusic *** Hype Machine